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Home; Fellowship. Fellow Profile. Elected: 1952 Honorary. Meyer, Prof. Kurt H. Date of birth: 29 September 1883. Date of death: 14 April 1952. YouTube; Twitter; Facebook; Blog. Academy News. IAS Logo. 29th Mid-year meeting. Posted on 19 January 2018. The 29th Mid-year meeting of the Academy will be held from ...
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Meyer's dysplasia epiphysealis
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Toro P, Alvaro de Jesus; Lopez C, Meisser A
2005-01-01
The skeletal dysplasias are a group of heterogeneous conditions since the clinical and genetic point of view, that to date they are about 200 different disorders. They have as common denominator an inconvenience of the normal process of growth and development of the bony weaving and their cartilaginous precursors. In this article the case of an adolescent of 16 years is presented with Meyer's dysplasia epiphysealis whose diagnostic was delayed and that as opposed to the cases reported in the literature required surgical treatment due to the persistent symptoms, and the literature is reviewed
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Die problematisering van die etiese: Deon Meyer se Infanta as ...
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Unlike the majority of earlier Afrikaans crime novels, Meyer's work relates to the American hard-boiled tradition rather than the British tradition of genteel detective fiction. It is when Meyer's novel is read in the context of the traditional characteristics of the genre that it emerges in a surprising way how the novel not only ...
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A rare case of short stature: Say Meyer syndrome
Karthik, T. S.; Prasad, N. Rajendra; Rani, P. Radha; Maheshwari, Rushikesh; Reddy, P. Amaresh; Chakradhar, B. V. S.; Menon, Bindu
2013-01-01
Introduction: Say Meyer syndrome is rare X linked condition characterized by developmental delay, short stature and metopic suture synostosis. We are reporting a case of Say Meyer syndrome presented to our hospital for short stature and developmental delay at age 3½ years. Case Report: A 3½-year-old boy presented to our hospital for decreased growth velocity from the age of 1 year. History revealed the boy had a birth weight of 2.3 kg, had an episode of seizures in the neonatal period. He was...
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The Architect as Producer: Hannes Meyer and the Proletarianisation of the Western Architect
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Amir Djalali
2015-12-01
Full Text Available With the foundation of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius advocated an end to the division between arts and crafts. Contrary to the idea of architecture as art, the programme of the school aimed to assimilate architecture with industry in order to satisfy collective social needs. Yet, despite this programmatic declaration, such a project was realised only after Gropius’ departure from the Bauhaus, under the controversial directorship (1927–1930 of the Swiss architect Hannes Meyer. Meyer achieved unprecedented success both in terms of academic production and financial performance. Yet his realisations were paralleled by the leftist radicalisation of the school’s politics: Meyer transformed the workshops into factory production units and the students into industrial workers. Eventually, the politicisation of the school cost Meyer his office and a negative reputation in historical records that still holds today. This article posits that Meyer achieved his success at the Bauhaus not despite his radical allegiance, but precisely because of it. The realism of Meyer’s strategy is evaluated through his capacity to anticipate many developments in the organisation of architectural production. In particular, his critique of intellectual labour in architecture is confronted with the contemporary proletarisation of architects in the Western world.
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Current-voltage characteristics of C70 solid near Meyer-Neldel temperature
Onishi, Koichi; Sezaimaru, Kouki; Nakashima, Fumihiro; Sun, Yong; Kirimoto, Kenta; Sakaino, Masamichi; Kanemitsu, Shigeru
2017-06-01
The current-voltage characteristics of the C70 solid with hexagonal closed-packed structures were measured in the temperature range of 250-450 K. The current-voltage characteristics can be described as a temporary expedient by a cubic polynomial of the voltage, i = a v 3 + b v 2 + c v + d . Moreover, the Meyer-Neldel temperature of the C70 solid was confirmed to be 310 K, at which a linear relationship between the current and voltage was observed. Also, at temperatures below the Meyer-Neldel temperature, the current increases with increasing voltage. On the other hand, at temperatures above the Meyer-Neldel temperature a negative differential conductivity effect was observed at high voltage side. The negative differential conductivity was related to the electric field and temperature effects on the mobility of charge carrier, which involve two variations in the carrier concentration and the activation energy for carrier hopping transport.
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A rare case of short stature: Say Meyer syndrome.
Karthik, T S; Prasad, N Rajendra; Rani, P Radha; Maheshwari, Rushikesh; Reddy, P Amaresh; Chakradhar, B V S; Menon, Bindu
2013-10-01
Say Meyer syndrome is rare X linked condition characterized by developmental delay, short stature and metopic suture synostosis. We are reporting a case of Say Meyer syndrome presented to our hospital for short stature and developmental delay at age 3½ years. A 3½-year-old boy presented to our hospital for decreased growth velocity from the age of 1 year. History revealed the boy had a birth weight of 2.3 kg, had an episode of seizures in the neonatal period. He was born to non-consanguineous marriage. He had global developmental delay and there was a lack of bowel and bladder control. History did not reveal any hearing or visual impairment. No history of any chronic systemic illnesses. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain revealed mild diffuse frontotemporal atrophy with multiple irregular gliotic areas in bilateral frontal lobes. Diffuse white matter volume loss in bilateral cerebral hemispheres. Diffuse thinning of corpus callosum. Diffuse periventricular hyper intensity on T2W and fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequences. Say Meyer syndrome is rare X linked condition characterized by developmental delay, short stature and metopic suture synostosis. Characteristic MRI brain findings include diffuse frontotemporal atrophy with multiple gliotic areas in frontal lobes. Diffuse white matter volume loss in bilateral cerebral hemispheres.
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Honigsbaum, Mark
2016-04-01
The Swiss-born medical researcher Karl Friedrich Meyer (1884-1974) is best known as a 'microbe hunter' who pioneered investigations into diseases at the intersection of animal and human health in California in the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, historians have singled out Meyer's 1931 Ludwig Hektoen Lecture in which he described the animal kingdom as a 'reservoir of disease' as a forerunner of 'one medicine' approaches to emerging zoonoses. In so doing, however, historians risk overlooking Meyer's other intellectual contributions. Developed in a series of papers from the mid-1930s onwards, these were ordered around the concept of latent infections and sought to link microbial behavior to broader bio-ecological, environmental, and social factors that impact hostpathogen interactions. In this respect Meyer-like the comparative pathologist Theobald Smith and the immunologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet-can be seen as a pioneer of modern ideas of disease ecology. However, while Burnet's and Smith's contributions to this scientific field have been widely acknowledged, Meyer's have been largely ignored. Drawing on Meyer's published writings and private correspondence, this paper aims to correct that lacuna while contributing to a reorientation of the historiography of bacteriological epidemiology. In particular I trace Meyer's intellectual exchanges with Smith, Burnet and the animal ecologist Charles Elton, over brucellosis, psittacosis and plague-exchanges that not only showed how environmental and ecological conditions could 'tip the balance' in favor of parasites but which transformed Meyer thinking about resistance to infection and disease.
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Philip Meyer, o outsider que criou o Jornalismo de Precisão
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Marília Gehrke
2017-05-01
Full Text Available A importância da trajetória de Philip Meyer para os estudos de jornalismo é o ponto principal desta entrevista. Ele é o criador do Jornalismo de Precisão, conceito que aproxima o jornalismo da ciência por meio de métodos científicos sociais, e que, também, dá nome a um de seus livros, publicado pela primeira vez em 1973. Ainda que o Jornalismo de Precisão não demande, necessariamente, o uso de computadores, Meyer começou a trabalhar com as máquinas antes de sua popularização, nos protestos de Detroit, em 1967, depois de passar nove meses na Universidade de Harvard. Utilizando amostra na narrativa jornalística, Meyer e a equipe do jornal Detroit Free Press receberam um Prêmio Pulitzer um ano depois. O Jornalismo de Precisão ainda é um conceito utilizado, mas hoje mais associado ao jornalismo de dados. Nessa entrevista, respondida por email, Meyer não só relembra aspectos de sua carreira e fala sobre a prática jornalística, como o uso de dados, transparência e hipótese, bem como revela suas percepções sobre o futuro do jornalismo.
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A rare case of short stature: Say Meyer syndrome
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T S Karthik
2013-01-01
Full Text Available Introduction: Say Meyer syndrome is rare X linked condition characterized by developmental delay, short stature and metopic suture synostosis. We are reporting a case of Say Meyer syndrome presented to our hospital for short stature and developmental delay at age 3½ years. Case Report: A 3½-year-old boy presented to our hospital for decreased growth velocity from the age of 1 year. History revealed the boy had a birth weight of 2.3 kg, had an episode of seizures in the neonatal period. He was born to non-consanguineous marriage. He had global developmental delay and there was a lack of bowel and bladder control. History did not reveal any hearing or visual impairment. No history of any chronic systemic illnesses. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI brain revealed mild diffuse frontotemporal atrophy with multiple irregular gliotic areas in bilateral frontal lobes. Diffuse white matter volume loss in bilateral cerebral hemispheres. Diffuse thinning of corpus callosum. Diffuse periventricular hyper intensity on T2W and fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequences. Conclusion: Say Meyer syndrome is rare X linked condition characterized by developmental delay, short stature and metopic suture synostosis. Characteristic MRI brain findings include diffuse frontotemporal atrophy with multiple gliotic areas in frontal lobes. Diffuse white matter volume loss in bilateral cerebral hemispheres.
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Guest Editorial: Chronic kidney disease | Meyers | South African ...
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South African Medical Journal. Journal Home · ABOUT · Advanced Search · Current Issue · Archives · Journal Home > Vol 105, No 3 (2015) >. Log in or Register to get access to full text downloads. Username, Password, Remember me, or Register. Guest Editorial: Chronic kidney disease. AM Meyers. Abstract. No abstract.
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Flocking dynamics and roosting behaviour of Meyer's parrot ...
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For most of the year, Meyer's parrots in the Okavango Delta do not form large feeding flocks, and groups larger than two or three are probably the result of opportunistic aggregation at favoured food items after dispersion from communal roosts. Communal roosting likely does not facilitate flocking unless the food resources ...
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Ikarus. Deon Meyer. Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau, 2015. 416 pp ...
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bied Meyer met Ikarus 'n meer kliniese, meer metodiese, en ... glad nie so rooskleurig as wat die media en die publiek dink .... the police laboratory,” (in Malmgren 174). Forensiese én ... finger of social condemnation passes over a number of ...
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Meyer Shapiro : un crítico contradictorio
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Amparo Serrano de Haro
1992-01-01
Full Text Available A partir de los años 60 la figura del crítico de arte e historiador Meyer Shapiro deja de ser considerada como la voz que clama en el desierto adonde la critica formalista (primero Barr y luego el todopoderoso Greenberg le había desterrado, puesto que él defendía una visión social de la historia del arte.
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The value of children in the context of the family in Java / by Paul A. Meyer
Meyer, Paul A
1987-01-01
... The value of children in the context of the family in Java [microform] / by Paul A. Meyer. The value of children in the context of the family in Java by Paul A. Meyer. The value of children in the context of the family in Java ...
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Interpretation and consequences of Meyer-Neldel rule for conductivity of phase change alloys
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Savransky, S.D. [The TRIZ Experts, 6015 Peppertree Court, Newark, CA 94560 (United States); Yelon, A. [Department of Engineering Physics and Reseau Quebecois de Materiaux de Pointe, Ecole Polytechnique, P.O. Box 6079, Station C-V Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
2010-03-15
Measurements of conductivity as a function of temperature were performed on a large number of memory cells of a GeSbTe phase change memory alloy, in both the set and reset states. Conductivity obeys the Meyer-Neldel rule in both states, with the same Meyer-Neldel, or isokinetic, temperature, but with conductivity prefactors about six orders of magnitude larger in the set than in the reset state. These observations are interpreted in terms of the multiexcitation entropy model, and conduction mechanisms are suggested. Their effect on the expected behavior of memories is considered. (Abstract Copyright [2010], Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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The feeding ecology of Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri in the ...
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The diet of Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, was distinctly seasonal, comprising 71 different food items from 37 tree species in 16 families. During 480 road transects over 24 months, food item preferences closely tracked fruiting phenology, resulting in significant positive correlations ...
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Waarnemingen aan Equisetum arvense L. var. serotinum F.W. Meyer
Hoek, van L.
1978-01-01
Observations during six successive years in a cultivated clone of Equisetum arvense L. var. serotinum F. W. Meyer made it possible to study various types of fertile, sterile, and homophyadic stems developing in this clone. As E. arvense var. varium Milde, E. arvense f. sanguineum Luerss., and E.
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Nest niche dynamics of Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri in the ...
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Meyer's Parrot Poicephalus meyeri is the only cavity-nesting bird species that breeds during winter in the Okavango Delta. This is facilitated by exclusive access to arthropod larvae incubating inside and feeding on fruits and pods in their diet. To minimise predation risk and overcome low overnight temperatures they have ...
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Ana Carolina Lima Santos
2011-08-01
Full Text Available This paper discusses Pedro Meyer’s photographs with special attention to the way that they are arranged as a kind of reflection about the language of photography and its capacity of mediation. In that, the pictures made by Meyer seem to have a symbolic dimension, which request a conscious activity of the spectator – contradicting the idea of image as a form of alienation proposed by Guy Debord. O presente artigo propõe uma discussão acerca do trabalho do fotógrafo Pedro Meyer a partir do entendimento de que suas imagens, ao explicitar e esgarçar limites de noções caras à natureza do fotográfico, funcionam como reflexão sobre a linguagem fotográfica e o seu poder de mediação. Discute-se, assim, como as imagens de Meyer assumem uma dimensão simbólica que solicitam do espectador uma prática de ativa – opondo-se à noção debordiana de imagens alienantes.
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Rubinelli, Francisco A.; Ramirez, Helena [INTEC, Conicet, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Güemes 3450, 3000 Santa Fe (Argentina)
2015-03-14
The Meyer-Neldel behavior reported for the emission probabilities of electrons and holes was included in our code, replacing the gap state capture cross sections of the Shockley-Read-Hall formalisms with capture cross sections containing an exponential function of the trap energy depth. The Meyer-Neldel energies for electrons and holes are the slopes of these exponentials. Our results indicate that emission probabilities of neutral states no deeper than approximately 0.45 eV and 0.37 eV from the conduction and valence band edges, respectively, can show a Meyer-Neldel behavior only, while on the other hand, its implementation in deeper gap states makes the replication of experimental J-V curves of p-i-n solar cells and detectors impossible. The Meyer-Neldel behavior can be included in all neutral capture cross sections of acceptor-like tail states without affecting the J-V characteristics, while it cannot be included in all capture cross sections of neutral donor-like tail states and/or defect states without predicting device performances below the experimental figures, that become even lower when it is also included in charged capture cross sections. The implementation of the anti Meyer-Neldel behavior at tail states gives rise to slightly better and reasonable device performances.
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Protein extraction from the stem of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer: A ...
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2011-05-23
May 23, 2011 ... Meyer: A tissue of lower protein extraction efficiency for proteomic analysis ..... key technology R&D program (No. 2007BAI38B02),. National ... Six new dammarane-type triterpene saponins from the leaves of. Panax ginseng.
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Effects of Korean ginseng ( Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) root extract ...
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Effects of Korean ginseng ( Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) root extract on egg production performance and egg quality of laying hens. ... The trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC), ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) and total phenolics concentration of PGRE were 598 ± 1.841 mmol trolox/kg, 15.45 ± 0.457 mmol ...
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Approximation theorems by Meyer-Koenig and Zeller type operators
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Ali Ozarslan, M.; Duman, Oktay
2009-01-01
This paper is mainly connected with the approximation properties of Meyer-Koenig and Zeller (MKZ) type operators. We first introduce a general sequence of MKZ operators based on q-integers and then obtain a Korovkin-type approximation theorem for these operators. We also compute their rates of convergence by means of modulus of continuity and the elements of Lipschitz class functionals. Furthermore, we give an rth order generalization of our operators in order to get some explicit approximation results.
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Víctor Larripa Artieda
2017-11-01
Full Text Available RESUMEN Hannes Meyer fue uno de los arquitectos más comprometidos con las ideas del ala radical del racionalismo, que él mismo y otros grandes arquitectos, como Mart Stam, Hans Wittwer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer o Ernst May, desarrollaron durante la década de los años veinte. Su voluntad de desvincular la arquitectura del “high–art” burgués y de todo simbolismo propio del pasado, de producir construcciones de carácter objetivo y social, quedó patente en proyectos y obras firmadas por todos ellos: en el caso de Meyer, probablemente, la construcción que mejor expresa tales postulados y aquel nuevo modo de hacer arquitectura sea la Escuela Federal ADGB; construida en Bernau entre 1928 y 1930. El presente artículo estudia la citada obra, a la luz del ideario arquitectónico y social de arquitecto suizo, y trata de exponer la estrategia que se encuentra detrás de su formalización: la serie. En efecto, a partir de este mecanismo de proyecto, basado en la repetición o reproducción casi infinita de sistemas constructivos o de unidades del programa–o de ambas al mismo tiempo–aquellos arquitectos descubrieron un nuevo modo de generar la forma arquitectónica, moderno y muy poco explorado hasta entonces. Una vía donde valores como la horizontalidad, la ausencia de centro o jerarquía, la igualdad y la objetividad se erigían como el nuevo relato de la arquitectura. SUMMARY Hannes Meyer was one of the most committed architects to the ideas of the radical wing of rationalism, which he himself and other great architects, such as Mart Stam, Hans Wittwer, Karel Teige, Ludwig Hilberseimer and Ernst May, developed during the twenties. Their desire to unshackle architecture from bourgeois “high art” and from all symbolism from the past, to produce constructions of an objective and social nature, was made patent in the designs and works signed by all of them. With regard to Meyer, the construction which best expresses these
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Existential contextuality and the models of Meyer, Kent, and Clifton
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Appleby, D.M.
2002-01-01
It is shown that the models recently proposed by Meyer, Kent, and Clifton (MKC) exhibit a novel kind of contextuality, which we term existential contextuality. In this phenomenon it is not simply the pre-existing value but the actual existence of an observable which is context dependent. This result confirms the point made elsewhere, that the MKC models do not, as the authors claim, 'nullify' the Kochen-Specker theorem. It may also be of some independent interest
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Kuno Meyer (1858-1919) and Peadar Ó Laoghaire (1839-1920)
Morrin, Olive
2016-01-01
In Special Collections we hold a reproduced copy from the June edition of Studies 1920 titled Canon Peter O’Leary and Dr. Kuno Meyer by Douglas Hyde. Their names had already been linked in June 1911 when on the same day Dublin Corporation conferred the Freedom of the City on both men and Cork City followed suit the following September. Douglas Hyde writes “It seems altogether reasonable to couple Father Peter with Dr. Kuno Meyer…….because these two, each in his own way …did work for Irish ...
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Pullat, Raimo, 1935-
2009-01-01
Arvustus: Reith, Reinhold. Torsten Meyer (Hrsg.) Luxus und Konsum : eine historische Annäherung. Cottbuser Studien zur Geschichte von Technik, Arbeit und Umwelt. hrsg. von Günter Bayerl. Bd. 21. 2003. Collegium Johann Beckmann'i kolmanda teaduskonverentsi ettekannete kogumikust
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Meyer-Neldel rule for Cu (I) diffusion in In{sub 2}S{sub 3} layers
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Juma, Albert, E-mail: albert.juma@helmholtz-berlin.de; Dittrich, Thomas [Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin (Germany); Wafula, Henry [Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 190-50100, Kakamega (Kenya); Wendler, Elke [Institut für Festkörperphysik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena (Germany)
2014-02-07
The nature of barriers for atomic transport in In{sub 2}S{sub 3} layers has been varied by addition of chlorine. Diffusion of Cu(I) from a removable CuSCN source was used to probe the variation of the barriers. The Meyer-Neldel (compensation) rule was observed with a Meyer-Neldel energy (E{sub MN}) and a proportionality prefactor (D{sub 00}) amounting to 40 meV and 5 × 10{sup −14} cm{sup 2}/s, respectively. D{sub 00} shows that the elementary excitation step is independent of the specific mechanism and nature of the barrier including different densities of Cl in In{sub 2}S{sub 3}. The value of E{sub MN} implies that coupling of the diffusing species to an optical-phonon bath is the source of the multiple excitations supplying the energy to overcome the diffusion barriers.
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Carotenoids in the cells of the alga Trentepohlia gobii Meyer
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Bazyli Czeczuga
2014-01-01
Full Text Available Column-, and thin-layer chromatography revealed the presence of the following carotenoids in the cells of the species Trentepohlia gobii Meyer from cobbles in the river Urmi in the Badzhal mountains of Khabarovsk Territory in the Far East: ß, ß-carotene, ß, ε-carotene, ß, ß-carotene-2-ol, ß, ε-carotene-2-ol, ß, ß-carotene-2, 2'-diol, 5,6-epoxy-5,6-dihydro-ß, ß-carotene-2-ol, 5,6-epoxy-5,6-dihydro-ß, ε-carotene-2-ol and 5,6,5',6'-diepoxy-5,6,5',6'-tetrahydro-ß, ß-carotene-2,2'-diol.
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Wei Chen
2015-01-01
Full Text Available The target of this paper is to establish the bid-ask pricing framework for the American contingent claims against risky assets with G-asset price systems on the financial market under Knightian uncertainty. First, we prove G-Dooby-Meyer decomposition for G-supermartingale. Furthermore, we consider bid-ask pricing American contingent claims under Knightian uncertainty, by using G-Dooby-Meyer decomposition; we construct dynamic superhedge strategies for the optimal stopping problem and prove that the value functions of the optimal stopping problems are the bid and ask prices of the American contingent claims under Knightian uncertainty. Finally, we consider a free boundary problem, prove the strong solution existence of the free boundary problem, and derive that the value function of the optimal stopping problem is equivalent to the strong solution to the free boundary problem.
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One Hundred Years of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins: A Story of Meyer to McHugh.
DePaulo, J Raymond
2017-04-01
This article describes a history of clinical methods and constructs that guide Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Phipps Clinic today. The contributions of Adolf Meyer and Paul McHugh are central and closely connected. Both emphasize the clinical examination as the central practice of psychiatry as a specialty within medicine. Meyer's comprehensive examination of the patient became the centerpiece of his approach and was the standard for psychiatrists in the English-speaking world. McHugh, with Phillip Slavney, developed a pluralistic and practical framework for interpreting that history and examination. Both argued against the uncritical use of the modern disease construct. McHugh argues that the disease construct, although fundamental, is but one of four useful "perspectives of psychiatry" and is, thus, an insufficient basis for psychiatric practice. The perspectives could be used as an organizing framework by all physicians who seek a practical and truly personalized approach to the care of patients.
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An adaptation of the MMPI-2 Meyers Index for the MMPI-2-RF.
Meyers, John E; Miller, Ronald M; Haws, Nathan A; Murphy-Tafiti, Jason L; Curtis, Thomas D; Rupp, Zachary W; Smart, Taylor A; Thompson, Lisa M
2014-01-01
Using an overall sample of 278 individuals who had taken the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Second Edition (MMPI-2) and who had clear diagnostic information available in their medical records, the Meyers Index (MI) for the MMPI-2 (Meyers, Millis, & Volkert, 2002 ) was calculated for each individual, and a new version of the MI created for the MMPI-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) was calculated. The MI is a method of combining multiple MMPI-2 validity scales into a single weighted index to assess exaggerated self-report on the MMPI-2. The new index is intended to provide the same type of global assessment of validity but for the MMPI-2-RF (MI-r). The MI and the MI-r were compared at both individual and group levels and were found to correlate well (r = .87). Diagnostic groups of litigants and nonlitigants of traumatic brain injury, chronic pain, and posttraumatic stress disorder were also examined; and the performance of the MI and the MI-r were similar. Similarly, the pass and fail agreement rate for the two scales was 93%. The results indicate that the MI and MI-r perform very similarly and are good methods of assessing overall validity of MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF test performance.
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Séminaire de probabilités XXXIX in memoriam Paul-André Meyer
Yor, Marc
2006-01-01
The 39th volume of Séminaire de Probabilités is a tribute to the memory of Paul André Meyer. His life and achievements are recalled; homages are rendered by his friends and colleagues. This volume also contains mathematical contributions to classical and quantum stochastic calculus, the theory of processes, martingales and their applications to mathematical finance, Brownian motion. They provide an overview on the current trends of stochastic calculus.
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Ernst, Florian
2015-03-01
Thought Experiments in Historiographic Function: Max Weber on Eduard Meyer and the Question of Counterfactuality. Max Weber's remarks on his colleague Eduard Meyer regarding counterfactual reasoning in history reflects a significant shift during the Methodenstreit around 1900. The question of attributing historical change strictly to either individual causes or abstract general laws has been tackled in a new way: By counterfactual reasoning a historian should be able to detect the most significant (and therefore meaningful) cause, event, or action for a certain historical outcome. Following Fritz Ringer, this paper argues that given the predominating methods of the natural sciences, scholars of the humanities conducted historical research by counterfactual thought experiments. This way, Weber pried open contemporary narratives (e.g. historicism), and by employing a unique historical causal analysis he made way for refined concepts to offer a model of interpretation that gave hope for a more feasible, practice-oriented approach to historical research than the epistemological discussions had hitherto offered. © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Hormuth, Dennis
2012-01-01
Arvustus: Gunnar Meyer. "Besitzende Bürger" und "Elende Sieche". Lübecks Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer Testamente 1400-1449. (Verhöffentlichungen zur Geschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck. B. 48). (Lübeck, 2010)
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Development and validation of a short form of the Fugl-Meyer motor scale in patients with stroke.
Hsieh, Y.W.; Hsueh, I.P.; Chou, Y.T.; Sheu, C.F.; Hsieh, C.L.; Kwakkel, G.
2007-01-01
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The 50-item Fugl-Meyer motor scale (FM) is commonly used in outcome studies. However, the lengthy administration time of the FM keeps it from being widely accepted for routine clinical use. We aimed to develop a short form of the FM (the S-FM) with sound psychometric
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Ulrike Spree
2014-06-01
Full Text Available How knowledge is negotiated between the makers of encyclopedias and their audiences remains an ongoing question in research on encyclopedias. A comparative content analysis of the published answers of letters to the editor of the German Meyers Konversationslexikon (Korrespondenzblatt from 1885 and the discussion pages of the article potato of the German Wikipedia (2013 reveals continuities as well as changes in the communication between encyclopedia producers and their audiences. The main reasons why readers and editors communicate are the need for updated factual information, an exchange on editorial principles and the intellectual exchange of ideas on ideological and philosophical questions in relation to the encyclopedic content. Editors and readers attach a lot of importance to the process of verifying information through bibliographical references. Whereas, for the editors of Meyers Konversationslexikon the leading role of experts remains undisputed, Wikipedians work in a contradictory situation. They are on the one hand exposing knowledge production to a permanent process of negotiation, thereby challenging the role of experts, on the other hand relying strongly on bibliographical authorities. Whilst the reasons for the communication between readers and editors of Meyers Konversationslexikon and among Wikipedia contributors coincide, the understanding of the roles of readers and editors differ. The editors of the Korrespondenzblatt keep up a lecturing attitude. As opposed to this, administrators in Wikipedia want to encourage participation and strive to develop expertise among the participating contributors. Albeit power relations between administrators, regular authors, occasional authors and readers continue to exist they are comparatively flat and transient. Regardless of these differences, the comparison between Meyers Konversationslexikon and Wikipedia indicates that the sine qua non for activating an upwards spiral of quality
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Amanda N. Staufer
2018-03-01
Full Text Available In every age, philosophers deal with inquiries concerning musical meaning and the effect of music on the listener. Instead of answering the formidable question of musical meaning, this essay demonstrates the parallel aspects of three musical theories from ancient, Enlightenment, and modern times. Using the two criteria of musical formalism and Gestalt Theory, this essay systematically connects the philosophies of Aristoxenus of Tarentum, René Descartes, and Leonard Meyer. Musical formalism holds that music’s nature is innate, self-evident, able to be systematically deduced, and rational. According to formalism, musical meaning is defined by things objectively ‘there’ in the music, musical experience relies on cognition, and music is less a matter of sense than of mind. Gestalt Theory asserts that music is a unified totality—the whole gives meaning to the parts. This project demonstrates that three seemingly dissimilar musical philosophies include and prefigure the same foundational principles, although the theories reach different conclusions about musical meaning. In the research process, this essay utilizes documentary evidence. This essay concludes that the philosophies of Aristoxenus, Descartes, and Meyer are united by tendencies toward musical formalism and strands of the Gestalt view of music.
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Macromolecules and Enzymes: The Geneva Heritage from Kurt H. Meyer and Edmond H. Fischer.
Fischer, Edmond H; Piguet, Alfred
2009-12-01
On the 26th May 2009, Edmond Fischer, winner with Ed Krebs of the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1992, and his colleague at the time of his research activities at the Ecole de chimie of the University of Geneva, Alfred Piguet, met with Andreas Hauser, Claude Piguet and Howard Riezman of the Section de chimie et biochimie of the University of Geneva to talk about how they became scientists under the impetus of Kurt H. Meyer and what became of them thereafter.
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Experiencias de urbanismo: los proyectos urbanos de Hannes Meyer en México (1938-1949)
Raquel Franklin Unkind
2013-01-01
Hannes Meyer arrived in Mexico in 1938 to take part in the XVIth International Housing and Town Planning Congress. One year later he founded the Institute for Urban Development and Planning and stayed in Mexico for the next ten years undertaking various urban projects such as the Lomas de Becerra Apartment Block, the Corpus Christi block, and the Agua Hedionda beach resort. Each one of these is the result of a dialectic process with his previous phases of work in which it is possible to see e...
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Roberta de Oliveira
2006-09-01
Full Text Available Stroke is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality. Sequels deriving from this event may lead to motor disability and from mild to severe deficits. In order to better classify sensory-motor dysfunction, balance and ability to perform activities of daily living, quantitative and qualitative evaluation scales have been used. OBJECTIVE: To correlate the scales Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, Berg balance scale and Barthel index. Twenty subjects with sequel after a single, unilateral stroke in chronic phase (>6 months post ictus were evaluated for about one hour. RESULTS: Barthel scale was statistically related to the total motor score of Fugl-Meyer assessment (r=0.597, p=0.005. The lower limb section at Fugl-Meyer had positive correlation with Berg scale (r=0.653, p=0.002 and with the balance section of Fugl-Meyer own scale (r=0.449, p=0.047. Both balance scales were correlated one with other (r=0.555, p=0.011. Statistical divergence appeared when Barthel's Index was correlated with Berg's Scale (r=0.425, p=0.062, and it is not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: The use of both quantitative and qualitative scales was shown to be a good measuring instrument for the classification of the general clinical performance of the patient, especially when positively related joint evaluations are applied.O acidente vascular cerebral (AVC é reconhecido como uma das maiores causas de morbidade e mortalidade. Seqüelas decorrentes deste evento podem levar a inabilidade motora e déficits leves a graves. Para classificar melhor a disfunção sensitivo-motora, o equilíbrio e as habilidades para as atividades de vida diária, escalas de avaliações quantitativas e qualitativas estão sendo utilizadas. OBJETIVO: Correlacionar a escala de desempenho físico de Fugl-Meyer, a escala de equilíbrio de Berg e o índice de Barthel. MÉTODO: Foram selecionados 20 sujeitos com sequela de um único e unilateral AVC em fase crônica (>6 meses pós ictal, que
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Experiencias de urbanismo: los proyectos urbanos de Hannes Meyer en México (1938-1949
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Raquel Franklin Unkind
2013-07-01
Full Text Available Hannes Meyer arrived in Mexico in 1938 to take part in the XVIth International Housing and Town Planning Congress. One year later he founded the Institute for Urban Development and Planning and stayed in Mexico for the next ten years undertaking various urban projects such as the Lomas de Becerra Apartment Block, the Corpus Christi block, and the Agua Hedionda beach resort. Each one of these is the result of a dialectic process with his previous phases of work in which it is possible to see elements such as his Swiss-German and Soviet ideas. Over this article his emphasis on science will be highlighted.
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Wagner, Edwin E
2008-07-01
I present a formal system that accounts for the misleading distinction between tests formerly termed objective and projective, duly noted by Meyer and Kurtz (2006). Three principles of Response Rightness, Response Latitude and Stimulus Ambiguity are shown to govern, in combination, the formal operating characteristics of tests, producing inevitable overlap between "objective" and "projective" tests and creating at least three "types" of tests historically regarded as being projective in nature. The system resolves many past issues regarding test classification and can be generalized to include all psychological tests.
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Wei, Xi-Jun; Tong, Kai-yu; Hu, Xiao-ling
2011-01-01
Responsiveness of clinical assessments is an important element in the report of clinical effectiveness after rehabilitation. The correlation could reflect the validity of assessments as an indication of clinical performance before and after interventions. This study investigated the correlation and responsiveness of Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA),…
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Imagens das colônias da empresa de colonização Meyer no Rio Grande do Sul, 1906
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Rosane Marcia Neumann
2013-04-01
Full Text Available Esse artigo, a partir da análise do prospecto fotográfico Ansichten aus Dr. Herrmann Meyers Ackerbaukolonien Neu-Württemberg und Xingu in Rio Grande do Sul (Südbrasilien, editado pelo Instituto Bibliográfico de Leipzig, em 1906, discute o uso da fotografia pela Empresa de Colonização Dr. Herrmann Meyercomo suporte para a divulgação de seu projeto de colonização, e o modo pelo qual representou as suas colônias e os seus colonos.
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Silva, Michele Bezerra; Perez, Victor Haber; Pereira, Nádia Rosa; Silveira, Thays da Costa; da Silva, Nathalia Ribeiro Ferreira; de Andrade, Cristilane Macharete; Sampaio, Romildo Martins
2018-05-01
The aim of the present study was to assess the drying kinetic of tucum fruits (epicarp and mesocarp) Astrocaryum aculeatum Meyer at three different temperatures (50, 60, and 70 °C). The physicochemical characterization, water activity, moisture content, including β-carotene and vitamin C content in - natura and dried fruits were analyzed. The fruit fractions presented high β-carotene, protein and lipid levels. Fatty acid profile showed oleic acid as the major fatty acid. Different mathematical models were computed to assess the drying process. The Page model was observed to be the best to describe the drying kinetic with the highest correlation coefficient ( R 2 ) 0.99 and the least Chi squared ( χ 2 ) close to 10 5 at the studied temperatures. The drying process reduced water activity to desirable levels in all trials and β-carotene retentions after drying remained at satisfactory levels, fact that resulted in minimum value of 63% and approximately 94% in some cases. Vitamin C retention was comparatively more around 20-40% compared to control.
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2005-01-01
Graphs of Base Input - Enrollment and Graduation Data for Naval Postgraduate School for the School of Business and Public Policy, Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering, and PhD Grads by curriculum by year.
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Simone Masin
2004-06-01
Full Text Available Subsongs are vocal trials uttered by young birds to practice songs. Among songbirds, subsongs are displayed by individuals in their first year of life. Studies on Zebra Finches Poephila guttata suggest that the juveniles learn their songs from a vocal tutor, their father. In this study we examine the subsongs in six captive-born Meyer's Parrots Poicephalus meyeri, from fledging time to weaning. Recordings of songs from chicks and fathers were analyzed for similarities in frequency and time parameters. With age, the subsongs of the chicks became more similar to the vocalizations of the fathers with 20% similarity rating in the first week after fledging to 100% at weaning time. Moreover, fledged chicks were exposed to a wide range of stimuli from several species of parrots breeding pairs caged nearby but chicks exclusively learned their fathers' songs. Our data support the hypothesis that Meyer's Parrots are vocal learners and use their father as their tutor.Os ''subsongs'' são ensaios vocais emitidos pelas aves jovens para exercitar suas vozes. Nos pássaros canoros, ''subsongs'' são exibidos por indivíduos em seu primeiro ano de vida. Estudos com Poephila guttata sugerem que os jovens aprendem seus cantos de um tutor vocal, seu pai. Neste trabalho examinamos os ''subsongs'' em seis papagaios Poicephalus meyeri nascidos em cativeiro, desde a saída do ninho até a emancipação. Gravações dos cantos dos filhotes e dos pais foram analisadas para medir as similaridades nos parâmetros de freqüência e tempo. Com a idade, os ''subsongs'' dos filhotes viraram mais semelhantes às vocalizações dos pais, com 20% de similaridade na primeira semana após a saída do ninho até 100% na hora da emancipação. Ademais, os filhotes foram expostos a uma grande variedade de estímulos de várias outras espécies de papagaios nidificando em gaiolas vizinhas, mas eles aprenderam somente os cantos de seus pais. Nossos dados confirmam a hipótese de que
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Zangrillo, Amanda N; Warzak, William J; Volkert, Valerie M; Valleley, Rachel J; Shriver, Mark D; Rodriguez, Nicole M; Roberts, Holly J; Piazza, Cathleen C; Peterson, Kathryn M; Milnes, Suzanne M; Menousek, Kathryn M; Mathews, Terri L; Luczynski, Kevin C; Kupzyk, Sara S; Kuhn, Brett R; Higgins, William J; Grennan, Allison O; Greer, Brian D; Fisher, Wayne W; Evans, Joseph H; Allen, Keith D
2016-05-01
Increased demand for applied behavior analysis (ABA) services has increased the need for additional masters-level practitioners and doctoral-level academicians and clinical directors. Based on these needs, the University of Nebraska Medical Center's (UNMC) Munroe-Meyer Institute has developed a PhD program. The academic structure at UNMC allowed us to create our PhD program in a relatively quick and efficient manner. Our PhD program has many unique features, including (a) close integration of didactic instruction with clinical and research training provided by leading experts in ABA in which students immediately apply concepts introduced in the classroom during coordinated clinical and research practica; (b) structured grant writing training in which students learn to write and submit an NIH-level grant; (c) financial support in the form of a stipend of $23,400 per year, free health benefits, and a full-tuition waiver for up to 12 credits per semester for UNMC courses (a benefits package worth approximately $50,000 per year for an out-of-state student); and (d) encouragement and financial support to present papers at local, regional, and national behavior analysis conferences.
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Ali Asghar Firuzjaeyan; Mojtaba Firuzjaeyan; Behdad Sadeghi
2015-01-01
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of organizational culture on organizational commitment of teachers. in this study Organizational commitment is based on Allen and Meyer: affective, continuance and normative commitment. The studied organizational culture is based on Denison four-dimension theory. Adaptability, Mission, Involvement and Consistency. Due to a few empirical studies in this region, the data were collected among 156 teachers of Bandpay region. The data were collecte...
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Fábio Luís Chiqueto Barbosa
2010-12-01
Full Text Available O presente artigo organiza-se em torno de dois eixos principais. Tratase,no primeiro, da rápida discussão de aspectos relativos ao estudo dedocumentos epistolares como fonte de pesquisa e da apresentação do caso dacorrespondência trocada entre João Guimarães Rosa e seu tradutor alemãoCurt Meyer-Clason. Na sequência são apresentados elementos que, combase na análise de documentos publicados e de documentos inéditos, levam àconsideração aspectos da obra e do fazer poético do autor ainda não ponderadospublicamente pela crítica especializada.The present article gets organized around two main axles. The first one brieflypresents a discussion of aspects related to the study of epistolary documents as research source and discusses some issues of the correspondence exchangedbetween João Guimarães Rosa and his German translator Curt Meyer-Clason.In the sequence, elements are presented that, on basis of an analysis ofpublished and unpublished letters, lead one to the consideration of work pointsand author’s poiësis aspects not yet openly considered by the specializedcriticism on him.
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Yan, Shu-Wei; Zhang, Jin; Liu, Yang; Li, Guo-Qing; Wang, Gui-Rong
2015-08-01
Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is one of the most serious agricultural pests, feeding on a wide range of cultivated plants, including cotton, cereals and vegetables in the north of China. This insect can frequently switch between habitats and host plants over seasons and prefer plants in bloom. A. lucorum relies heavily on olfaction to locate its host plants finely discriminating different plant volatiles in the environment. Despite its economical importance, research on the olfactory system of this species has been so far very limited. In this study, we have identified and characterized an olfactory receptor which is sensitively tuned to (Z)-3-Hexenyl acetate and several flowering compounds. Besides being present in the bouquet of some flowers, these compounds are produced by plants that have suffered attacks and are supposed to act as chemical messengers between plants. This OR may play an important role in the selection of host plants. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Barbosa, Nubia E; Forero, Sandra M; Galeano, Claudia P; Hernández, Edgar D; Landinez, Nancy S; Sunnerhagen, Katharina S; Alt Murphy, Margit
2018-04-24
Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) is the most widely used and recommended clinical scale for evaluation of sensorimotor impairment post stroke, but an official Spanish version is not available today. This study aimed to establish methodological structure for translation and cultural adaptation process and perform a transcultural validation of the upper and lower extremity FMA to Colombian Spanish. Procedures included forward and backward translation, step-wise reviewing by bilingual and professional experts to ensure conceptual and semantic equivalence. Validation included a pilot evaluation of item-level agreement on 10 individuals with stroke at the Central Military Hospital of Colombia. Comprehensive step-wise procedure for transcultural validation was established. Low agreement (less than 70%) was detected for items assessing arm movements within synergies and for coordination/speed subscale. All points of disagreement were systematically reviewed and agreed upon when drafting the final version of the Spanish FMA. Use of FMA will allow unified description of stroke severity and motor recovery in Spanish speaking countries. This will open up possibility to compare stroke and rehabilitation outcomes with other countries and regions world-wide. Comprehensive methodological procedures provided can facilitate introduction of well-established clinical scales in other languages. Implications for Rehabilitation The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) of upper and lower extremity is the most used and recommended clinical scale for evaluation of sensorimotor impairment after stroke. The Spanish version of FMA, validated in this study, is now first time available for use in research and clinical practice. Use of FMA will allow unified description of stroke severity and motor recovery in Spanish speaking countries, which in turn opens up possibility to compare stroke and rehabilitation outcomes with other countries and regions world-wide.
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Han, De-Xiong; Zhuang, Li-Xing; Zhang, Ying
2011-06-01
To assess the therapeutic effect of Jin's "Sanzhen" therapy combined with rehabilitation training on limb-motor function of stroke patients by using Fugl-Meyer scale. A total of 254 hemiplegic stroke outpatients and inpatients from 7 hospitals were randomly divided into Jin's "Sanzhen" (JSZ) group (n = 83), rehabilitation group (n = 84) and combination group (n = 87). Acupuncture was applied to acupoints of Jin's "Sanzhen" including Quchi (LI 11), Waiguan (SJ 5) and Hegu (LI 4); Futu (ST 32). Zusanli (ST 36) and Sanyinjiao (SP 6); etc. The acupuncture needles were retained for 30 min after "Deqi". Rehabilitation training included passive joint movement, standing-sitting training, tapping-pressing stimulation, walking training, etc. The treatment was conducted once daily, 5 sessions a week and for 4 weeks. Fugl-Meyer scale composed of 100-point motor domain of the upper- and lower-extremity sections was used to assess the patients' motor function. On day 28 after the treatment, of the 83.84 and 87 hemiplegic stroke patients in the JSZ, rehabilitation and combination groups, 48 (57.8%), 31 (36.9%) and 50 (57.5%) experienced marked improvement in their clinical symptoms and signs, 26 (31.3%), 44 (52.4%) and 31(35.6%) had an improvement, and 9 (10.8%), 9 (10.7%) and 6 (6.9%) failed in the treatment, with the total effective rates being 89.2%, 89.3% and 93.1%, respectively. The neurological deficit score (NDS) of the combination group was significantly lower than that of the rehabilitation group (P rehabilitation groups (P rehabilitation groups in both NDS and FMAS (P > 0.05). Jin's "Sanzhen" therapy combined with rehabilitation training can significantly improve the limb motor function of hemiplegic stroke patients, and has a good synergistic effect.
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Pedro Amorim Berbert
2007-12-01
Full Text Available Derivation of density-independent dielectric functions for moisture determination in grains is important for the implementation of on-line sensors in automated driers. The object of this study was to investigate the Meyer and Schilz function [(epsilon'1/epsilon"] for indirect and non-destructive water content measurement of seeds of common bean by radiofrequency, where epsilon' and epsilon" are the relative permittivity and the dielectric loss factor, respectively. Samples consisted of common bean seeds variety Campeão-3 at moisture contents ranging from 11.5 to 20.6% w.b., and bulk densities from 756 to 854 kg m-3, performing dielectric measurements in a room at 20 ± 1ºC and 66 ± 2% relative humidity. The model could estimate common bean seed moisture content with a standard error of the estimate, and maximum error of 0.5 and 1.0 percentage point in moisture, w.b., respectively.A obtenção de funções dielétricas que sejam independentes da massa específica aparente para estimar o teor de água dos grãos é importante para o desenvolvimento de sensores para utilização em secadores automáticos. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a adequabilidade da função de Meyer e Schilz, [(épsilon'1/épsilon"], para determinação indireta, não destrutiva e em linha do teor de água de sementes de feijão em radiofreqüências, em que épsilon' e épsilon" representam a permissividade elétrica relativa e o fator de perda dielétrica, respectivamente. Foram utilizadas amostras da variedade Campeão-3 com teor de água entre 11,5 e 20,6% b.u. e massa específica aparente no intervalo entre 756 e 854 kg m-3. Todas as medições das propriedades dielétricas foram feitas em ambiente a 20 ± 1ºC e umidade relativa de 66 ± 2%. O modelo permitiu estimar o teor de água das sementes de feijão com erro padrão da estimativa e erro máximo de 0,5 e 1,0 ponto percentual, respectivamente.
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Janes, N.; Ma, L.; Hsu, J.W.; Rubin, E.; Taraschi, T.F. (Thomas Jefferson Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States))
1992-01-01
The Meyer-Overton hypothesis--that anesthesia arises from the nonspecific action of solutes on membrane lipids--is reformulated using colligative thermodynamics. Configurational entropy, the randomness imparted by the solute through the partitioning process, is implicated as the energetic driving force that pertubs cooperative membrane equilibria. A proton NMR partitioning approach based on the anesthetic benzyl alcohol is developed to assess the reformulation. Ring resonances from the partitioned drug are shielded by 0.2 ppm and resolved from the free, aqueous drug. Free alcohol is quantitated in dilute lipid dispersions using an acetate internal standard. Cooperative equilibria in model dipalmitoyl lecithin membranes are examined with changes in temperature and alcohol concentration. The L[sub [beta][prime
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Translocation of Endosulfan from Soil to Ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer
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Jiyoon Kim
2018-04-01
Full Text Available This study was conducted to examine the translocation of highly residual agrochemical in soil, the endosulfan (total, to ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer. The soil with the level of the amount of 5.0 mg kg−1 of endosulfan (total was prepared in a Wagner pot into which the seedling of ginseng was transplanted and then the specimens of ginseng (root, leaf, and stem were collected quarterly and analyzed through GC-MS. The level of residual of endosulfan (total in the soil has decreased from 4.28 mg kg−1 (April 2013 to 1.94 mg kg−1 (December 2014 while the level in the specimens of leaf and stem of ginseng respectively sampled according to its growth phase in June and September from 2013 and 2014 showed an increase from 0.56 mg kg−1 (June 2013 to 2.46 mg kg−1 (September 2013 and decrease from 0.29 mg kg−1 (June 2014 to 0.18 mg kg−1 (September 2014. For the case of the root of ginseng, the level of the amount of 10.77 mg kg−1 of endosulfan (total was detected in June 2013 and then, the level has decreased to the level of 4.88 mg kg−1 in December 2014. The translocation of residual endosulfan (total in soil to ginseng with time was identified. The amount of residuals of α-endosulfan and β-endosulfan was also decreased with time however, the ratio of endosulfan-sulfate, the main metabolite, was gradually increasing. The retention of metabolite (endosulfan-sulfate in soil identified thereby thus suggests the potential of its translocation to plants in the case of the soils containing the residual of endosulfan (total.
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Preference of a polyphagous mirid bug, Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür for flowering host plants.
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Hongsheng Pan
Full Text Available Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür (Hemiptera: Miridae is one of the most important herbivores in a broad range of cultivated plants, including cotton, cereals, vegetables, and fruit crops in China. In this manuscript, we report on a 6-year long study in which (adult A. lucorum abundance was recorded on 174 plant species from 39 families from early July to mid-September. Through the study period per year, the proportion of flowering plants exploited by adult A. lucorum was significantly greater than that of non-flowering plants. For a given plant species, A. lucorum adults reached peak abundance at the flowering stage, when the plant had the greatest attraction to the adults. More specifically, mean adult abundance on 26 species of major host plants and their relative standard attraction were 10.3-28.9 times and 9.3-19.5 times higher at flowering stage than during non-flowering periods, respectively. Among all the tested species, A. lucorum adults switched food plants according to the succession of flowering plant species. In early July, A. lucorum adults preferred some plant species in bloom, such as Vigna radiata, Gossypium hirsutum, Helianthus annuus and Chrysanthemum coronarium; since late July, adults dispersed into other flowering hosts (e.g. Ricinus communis, Impatiens balsamina, Humulus scandens, Ocimum basilicum, Agastache rugosus and Coriandrum sativum; in early September, they largely migrated to flowering Artemisia spp. (e.g. A. argyi, A. lavandulaefolia, A. annua and A. scoparia. Our findings underscore the important role of flowering plays in the population dynamics and inter-plant migration of this mirid bug. Also, our work helps understand evolutionary aspects of host plant use in polyphagous insects such as A. lucorum, and provides baseline information for the development of sustainable management strategies of this key agricultural pest.
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Michaelsen, Stella M; Rocha, André S; Knabben, Rodrigo J; Rodrigues, Luciano P; Fernandes, Claudia G C
2011-01-01
Recently, the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) was assessed through the scoring given according to observations made by a single evaluator who applied the test. When different raters apply the scale, the reliability may depend on the interpretation given to the assessment sheet. In such cases, a clear administration manual is essential for ensuring homogeneity of application. To translate and adapt the French Canadian version of the FMA administration manual into Brazilian Portuguese and to evaluate the inter-rater reliability when different evaluators apply the FMA on the basis of the information contained in the manual. Eighteen adults (59±10 years) with chronic hemiparesis (38±35 months after a stroke) took part in this study. Eight patients participated in the first part of the study and 10 in the second part. Based on analyzing the results from part 1, an adapted version was developed, in which information and photos were added to illustrate the positions of the patient and evaluator. The inter-rater reliability was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The reliability of the FMA based on the adapted version of the manual was excellent for the total motor scores for the upper limbs (ICC=0.98) and lower limbs (ICC=0.90), as well as for movement sense (ICC=0.98) and upper and lower-limb passive range of motion (ICC=0.84 and 0.90, respectively). The reliability was moderate for tactile sensitivity (0.75). The joint pain assessment presented low reliability. The results showed that, except for pain assessment, application of the FMA based on the adapted version of the application manual for Brazilian Portuguese presented adequate inter-rater reliability.
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Zhang Zhengqun
2015-12-01
Full Text Available The green plant bug (Apolygus lucorum Meyer-Dür is a key pest of Bt cotton in China. Along with biological control, chemical control is one of the most important strategies in A. lucorum Integrated Pest Management (IPM. The goal of this study was to evaluate the toxicity of eight conventional insecticides to A. lucorum and to assess the susceptibility of two generalist predators Chrysopa sinica (Jieder and Propylaea japonica (Thunbery to insecticides that are commonly used in A. lucorum management. Via glass-vial and leaf-dip bioassay, toxicity tests with selected insecticides at two different life-stages of A. lucorum indicated significant differences between the LD50 or LC50 values for these compounds within different insecticidal classes. Phenylpyrazole fipronil had the highest toxicity to 4th-instar nymphs and adults of A. lucorum, whereas neonicotinoid imidacloprid had the lowest toxicity among the insecticides. Females were more tolerant to insecticides than were males, as shown by the higher LD50 values for females. Furthermore, laboratory tests showed that endosulfan had the highest selectivity to C. sinica and P. japonica: the selective toxicity ratios (STRs were superior to other tested insecticides, particularly imidacloprid, and were 5.396 and 4.749-fold higher than baseline STRs, respectively. From this study, we conclude that fipronil can potentially be used to efficiently control A. lucorum. An alternative control agent worth consideration is endosulfan, owing to its relative safety to non-targeted natural enemies.
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Stella M Michaelsen
2011-02-01
Full Text Available CONTEXTUALIZAÇÃO: Recentemente a confiabilidade da versão brasileira da Escala de Fugl-Meyer (EFM foi avaliada pela pontuação dada pela observação de um único examinador que aplicou a escala. Quando diferentes examinadores aplicam a escala, a confiabilidade pode depender da interpretação dada à ficha de avaliação. Nesse caso, um manual de administração claro é fundamental para garantir homogeneidade na aplicação. OBJETIVOS: Traduzir e adaptar para o português-Brasil a versão do Manual de Administração em francês-canadense da EFM e avaliar a confiabilidade interexaminadores quando diferentes examinadores aplicam a EFM com base nas informações contidas no manual. MÉTODOS: Participaram do estudo 18 adultos (59±10 anos com hemiparesia crônica (38±35 meses pós-Acidente Vascular Encefálico. Oito sujeitos participaram da primeira parte do estudo e dez, da segunda parte. Baseada na análise dos resultados da parte 1, desenvolveu-se uma versão adaptada à qual foram adicionadas informações e fotos para ilustrar a posição do paciente e do examinador. A confiabilidade interexaminadores foi avaliada com o Coeficiente de Correlação Intraclasse (CCI. RESULTADOS: A confiabilidade da EFM baseada na versão adaptada do manual foi excelente para o escore motor total do membro superior (MS, CCI=0,98 e membro inferior (MI, CCI=0,90, sentido de movimento (CCI=0,98, amplitude de movimento (ADM passiva do MS (CCI=0,84 e do MI (CCI=0,90 e moderada para a sensibilidade tátil (0,75. A avaliação da dor articular apresentou baixa confiabilidade. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados mostram que, com exceção da avaliação da dor, a aplicação da EFM com base na versão adaptada do manual de aplicação em português-Brasil apresenta adequada confiabilidade interexaminadores.BACKGROUND: Recently, the reliability of the Brazilian version of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA was assessed through the scoring given according to observations made by
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Maximilien Brice
2011-01-01
Eberhard Widmann (Stefan Meyer Institute, Vienna) and Silke Federmann (Ph.D. Student from Vienna in the CERN-Austrian Ph.D. program) together with a microwave cavity developed by Silke at CERN. The cavity will be used for the first time to look for spin-flip transitions of antihydrogen atoms later this year.
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of ten minste gekontekstualiseer, word. By die gastehuis, La Petite Margaux, is daar drie lyke met drie perfekte kopskote. Twee van die oorledenes is militêre tipes, oud-SAPD- lyfwagte wat as persoonlike sekuriteitswagte vir Jeanette Louw, besturende direkteur van. Body Armour (soos in Onsigbaar en 7 dae), ge- werk het.
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Full Text Available Virtual home-based rehabilitation is an emerging area in stroke rehabilitation. Functional assessment tools are essential to monitor recovery and provide current function-based rehabilitation. We developed the Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA tool using Kinect (Microsoft, USA and validated it for hemiplegic stroke patients. Forty-one patients with hemiplegic stroke were enrolled. Thirteen of 33 items were selected for upper extremity motor FMA. One occupational therapist assessed the motor FMA while recording upper extremity motion with Kinect. FMA score was calculated using principal component analysis and artificial neural network learning from the saved motion data. The degree of jerky motion was also transformed to jerky scores. Prediction accuracy for each of the 13 items and correlations between real FMA scores and scores using Kinect were analyzed. Prediction accuracies ranged from 65% to 87% in each item and exceeded 70% for 9 items. Correlations were high for the summed score for the 13 items between real FMA scores and scores obtained using Kinect (Pearson's correlation coefficient = 0.873, P<0.0001 and those between total upper extremity scores (66 in full score and scores using Kinect (26 in full score (Pearson's correlation coefficient = 0.799, P<0.0001. Log transformed jerky scores were significantly higher in the hemiplegic side (1.81 ± 0.76 compared to non-hemiplegic side (1.21 ± 0.43 and showed significant negative correlations with Brunnstrom stage (3 to 6; Spearman correlation coefficient = -0.387, P = 0.046. FMA using Kinect is a valid way to assess upper extremity function and can provide additional results for movement quality in stroke patients. This may be useful in the setting of unsupervised home-based rehabilitation.
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Kim, Sung Ho; Oh, Heon; Lee, Song Eun [Chonnam National Univ., Kwangju (Korea, Republic of); Lee, Yun Sil; Kim, Tae Hwan [Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Jeong, Kyu Sik [Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Taejon (Korea, Republic of); Ryu, Si Yun [Chungnam National Univ., Taejon (Korea, Republic of)
1997-09-01
The frequencies of {gamma}-ray-induced micronuclei (MN) in Cytokinesis-Blocked (CB) lymphocytes at several doses were measured in three donors of human and C57BL/6 mice. Measurements performed after irradiation showed a dose-related increases in MN frequency in each of the donors studied. The relative sensitivity of mouse in Spleen Lymphocytes (SLs) compared with human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes (PBLs) was estimated by best fitting linear-quadratic model based on the radiation-induced MN data over the range from 0 cGy to 400 cGy. In the case of MN frequency with 0.2 per CB cell, the relative sensitivity of mouse SLs was 1.67. Compared with the radiation-induced MN formation in the PBLs of human, the SLs of mouse were more radiosensitive. Using this MN assay with human PBLs and mouse SLs, studies were performed to determine whether the water fraction of ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A.Meyer)against radiation-induced MN in human PBLs after in vitro irradiation (3Gy) and in SLs of C57BL/6 mice after in vivo irradiation (3Gy). The frequency of MN in human PBLs was reduced by water fraction of ginseng (0.5mg/ml of medium) both pre-and post treatment (p<0.01) in vitro. In addition, the frequency of MN in mouse SLs was also reduced by pretreatment of ginseng (2mg/ml of drinking water for 7 days) in vivo.
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García-Álvarez, Joaquín; Díez, Josefina; Vidal, Cristian; Vicent, Cristian
2013-06-03
Treatment of the N-thiophosphorylated iminophosphorane ligands (PTA)═NP(═S)(OR)2 [PTA = 1,3,5-triaza-7-phosphaadamantane, 3a and 3b] and (DAPTA)═NP(═S)(OR)2 [DAPTA = 3,7-diacetyl-1,3,7-triaza-5-bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane, 4a and 4b] with an equimolecular amount of AgSbF6 leads to high-yield formation of the new one-dimensional coordination polymers [Ag{μ(2)-N,S-(PTA)═NP(═S)(OR)2}]x[SbF6]x (5a and 5b) and [Ag{μ(2)-O,S-(DAPTA)═NP(═S)(OR)2}]x[SbF6]x (6a and 6b), respectively. These new (iminophosphorane)silver(I) coordination polymers are efficient catalyst precursors for the Meyer-Schuster isomerization of both terminal and internal alkynols. Reactions proceeded in water, under aerobic conditions and using microwave irradiation as heating source, to afford the corresponding α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in excellent yields, without the addition of any cocatalyst. Remarkably, it should be noted that this catalytic system can be recycled up to 10 consecutive runs (1st cycle 45 min, 99%; 10th cycle 6 h, 97%). ESI-MS analysis of 5a in water has been carried out providing valuable insight into the monomeric active species responsible for catalytic activity in water.
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Lin, Yanping; Wang, Kangyu; Li, Xiangyu; Sun, Chunyu; Yin, Rui; Wang, Yanfang; Wang, Yi; Zhang, Meiping
2018-02-21
Most genes in a genome exist in the form of a gene family; therefore, it is necessary to have knowledge of how a gene family functions to comprehensively understand organismal biology. The receptor-like kinase (RLK)-encoding gene family is one of the most important gene families in plants. It plays important roles in biotic and abiotic stress tolerances, and growth and development. However, little is known about the functional differentiation and relationships among the gene members within a gene family in plants. This study has isolated 563 RLK genes (designated as PgRLK genes) expressed in Jilin ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer), investigated their evolution, and deciphered their functional diversification and relationships. The PgRLK gene family is highly diverged and formed into eight types. The LRR type is the earliest and most prevalent, while only the Lec type originated after P. ginseng evolved. Furthermore, although the members of the PgRLK gene family all encode receptor-like protein kinases and share conservative domains, they are functionally very diverse, participating in numerous biological processes. The expressions of different members of the PgRLK gene family are extremely variable within a tissue, at a developmental stage and in the same cultivar, but most of the genes tend to express correlatively, forming a co-expression network. These results not only provide a deeper and comprehensive understanding of the evolution, functional differentiation and correlation of a gene family in plants, but also an RLK genic resource useful for enhanced ginseng genetic improvement.
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Page, Stephen J; Hade, Erinn; Persch, Andrew
2015-01-01
There remains a need for a quickly administered, stroke-specific, bedside measure of active wrist and finger movement for the expanding stroke population. The wrist stability and hand mobility scales of the upper extremity Fugl-Meyer Assessment (w/h UE FM) constitute a valid, reliable measure of paretic UE impairment in patients with active wrist and finger movement. The aim of this study was to determine performance on the w/h UE FM in a stable cohort of survivors of stroke with only palpable movement in their paretic wrist flexors. A single-center cohort study was conducted. Thirty-two individuals exhibiting stable, moderate upper extremity hemiparesis (15 male, 17 female; mean age=56.6 years, SD=10.1; mean time since stroke=4.6 years, SD=5.8) participated in the study, which was conducted at an outpatient rehabilitation clinic in the midwestern United States. The w/h UE FM and Action Research Arm Test (ARAT) were administered twice. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs), Cronbach alpha, and ordinal alpha were computed to determine reliability, and Spearman rank correlation coefficients and Bland-Altman plots were computed to establish validity. Intraclass correlation coefficients for the w/h UE FM and ARAT were .95 and .99, respectively. The w/h UE FM intrarater reliability and internal consistency were greater than .80, and concurrent validity was greater than .70. This also was the first stroke rehabilitative study to apply ordinal alpha to examine internal consistency values, revealing w/h UE FM levels greater than .85. Concurrent validity findings were corroborated by Bland-Altman plots. It appears that the w/h UE FM is a promising tool to measure distal upper extremity movement in patients with little active paretic wrist and finger movement. This finding widens the segment of patients on whom the w/h UE FM can be effectively used and addresses a gap, as commonly used measures necessitate active distal upper extremity movement. © 2015 American
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Andréia Gomes Bezerra
2016-06-01
Full Text Available The medicinal plants Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer (Araliaceae and Heteropterys tomentosa A. Juss (Malpighiaceae are widely and separately used by the Brazilian population as phytotherapeutics for the same medicinal purposes as tonics and to improve cognition. A chemical analysis was carried out on hydroethanolic extracts of powdered roots from P. ginseng and H. tomentosa using HPLC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS (High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled to Diode-Array Detector and Electrospray Ionization - Mass Spectrum/Mass Spectrum. The ginsenosides Rg1, Rf, mRg and mRf were the main constituents in a hydroethanolic extract from P. ginseng, while in the hydroethanolic extract from H. tomentosa, caffeoylquinic acid derivatives and astilbin isomers were the main constituents. Concentration-time-effect curves were generated in cultures of astrocytes that were incubated with hydroethanolic extracts of these species to elucidate their toxicities. The P. ginseng extract was nontoxic at all of the tested times and concentrations. The hydroethanolic extract from H. tomentosa demonstrated toxicity at a concentration of 1000 µg/mL. P. ginseng extract had no protective effect against staurosporine. Many studies have demonstrated the neuroprotective effect of ginsenosides, caffeoylquinic derivatives and flavonoids.
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Chung, Ill-Min; Lim, Ju-Jin; Ahn, Mun-Seob; Jeong, Haet-Nim; An, Tae-Jin; Kim, Seung-Hyun
2015-01-01
Background The study of phenolic compounds profiles and antioxidative activity in ginseng fruit, leaves, and roots with respect to cultivation years, and has been little reported to date. Hence, this study examined the phenolic compounds profiles and 2, 2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free-radical-scavenging activities in the fruit, leaves, and roots of Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng Meyer) as a function of cultivation year. Methods Profiling of 23 phenolic compounds in ginseng fruit, leaves, and roots was investigated using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with the external calibration method. Antioxidative activity of ginseng fruit, leaves, and roots were evaluated using the method of DPPH free-radical-scavenging activity. Results The total phenol content in ginseng fruit and leaves was higher than in ginseng roots (p phenol content in the ginseng samples was significantly correlated to the DPPH free-radical-scavenging activity (r = 0.928****). In particular, p-coumaric acid (r = 0.847****) and ferulic acid (r = 0.742****) greatly affected the DPPH activity. Among the 23 phenolic compounds studied, phenolic acids were more abundant in ginseng fruit, leaves, and roots than the flavonoids and other compounds (p phenolic compounds in 3–6-yr-old ginseng fruit, leaves, and roots. Conclusion This study provides basic information about the antioxidative activity and phenolic compounds profiles in fruit, leaves, and roots of Korean ginseng with cultivation years. This information is potentially useful to ginseng growers and industries involved in the production of high-quality and nutritional ginseng products. PMID:26843824
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Rodríguez, Sara M; Diaz, Julia I; D'Elía, Guillermo
2017-05-01
Profilicollis chasmagnathi Holcman-Spector, Mañé-Garzón & Dei-Cas, 1977 (Acanthocephala: Polymorphidae) has been reported to parasitise different grapsid species as intermediate hosts along the South Atlantic shores, i.e. Cyrtograpsus angulatus (Dana) and Neohelice granulata (Dana) in Uruguay and Cyrtograpsus altimanus (Rathbun) in Argentina. Larvae of a similar acanthocephalan described as Profilicollis antarcticus Zdzitowiecki, 1985 were recorded in the crab Hemigrapsus crenulatus (Milne-Edwards) from an estuarine habitat on the Southeast Pacific shore in Chile. Earlier studies have questioned the specific assignation of the Chilean estuarine populations of Profilicollis Meyer, 1931. The aim of this study was to re-examine the identification of these acanthocephalans by means of morphological and molecular analyses of cystacanths of Profilicollis spp. gathered from C. angulatus, N. granulata, C. altimanus and H. crenulatus. Our analyses showed that a single species of Profilicollis, P. chasmagnathi, parasitises these four crab species. The assessment of specimens from the South Shetlands Islands, the type-locality of P. antarcticus, is needed before formally proposing that P. antarcticus is a junior subjective synonym of P. chasmagnathi.
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29 Jul 2010 ... geboorteplaas, moet die roman gelees word teen die agtergrond van die ontwikkeling van die plaasroman. ..... traumatic memory into narrative memory”. Die gevangenskap ..... Journal of Loss and Trauma,. 11: 321–35. Wylde ...
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Chelomina, Galina N; Rozhkovan, Konstantin V; Voronova, Anastasia N; Burundukova, Olga L; Muzarok, Tamara I; Zhuravlev, Yuri N
2016-04-01
Wild ginseng, Panax ginseng Meyer, is an endangered species of medicinal plants. In the present study, we analyzed variations within the ribosomal DNA (rDNA) cluster to gain insight into the genetic diversity of the Oriental ginseng, P. ginseng, at artificial plant cultivation. The roots of wild P. ginseng plants were sampled from a nonprotected natural population of the Russian Far East. The slides were prepared from leaf tissues using the squash technique for cytogenetic analysis. The 18S rDNA sequences were cloned and sequenced. The distribution of nucleotide diversity, recombination events, and interspecific phylogenies for the total 18S rDNA sequence data set was also examined. In mesophyll cells, mononucleolar nuclei were estimated to be dominant (75.7%), while the remaining nuclei contained two to four nucleoli. Among the analyzed 18S rDNA clones, 20% were identical to the 18S rDNA sequence of P. ginseng from Japan, and other clones differed in one to six substitutions. The nucleotide polymorphism was more expressed at the positions 440-640 bp, and distributed in variable regions, expansion segments, and conservative elements of core structure. The phylogenetic analysis confirmed conspecificity of ginseng plants cultivated in different regions, with two fixed mutations between P. ginseng and other species. This study identified the evidences of the intragenomic nucleotide polymorphism in the 18S rDNA sequences of P. ginseng. These data suggest that, in cultivated plants, the observed genome instability may influence the synthesis of biologically active compounds, which are widely used in traditional medicine.
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Sarigul-Klijn, Yasemin; Lobo-Prat, Joan; Smith, Brendan W; Thayer, Sage; Zondervan, Daniel; Chan, Vicky; Stoller, Oliver; Reinkensmeyer, David J
2017-07-01
Many people with a stroke have a severely paretic arm, and it is often assumed that they are unable to learn novel, skilled behaviors that incorporate use of that arm. Here, we show that a group of people with chronic stroke (n = 5, upper extremity Fugl-Meyer scores: 31, 30, 26, 22, 8) learned to use their impaired arm to propel a novel, yoked-clutch lever drive wheelchair. Over six daily training sessions, each involving about 134 training movements with their "useless" arm, the users gradually achieved a 3-fold increase in wheelchair speed on average, with a 4-6 fold increase for three of the participants. They did this by learning a bimanual skill: pushing the levers with both arms while activating the yoked-clutches at the right time with their ipsilesional (i.e. "good") hand to propel the wheelchair forward. They perceived the task as highly motivating and useful. The speed improvements exceeded a 1.5-factor improvement observed when young, unimpaired users learned to propel the chair. The learning rate also exceeded a sample of learning rates from a variety of classic learning studies. These results suggest that appropriately-designed assistive technologies (or "unmasking technologies - UTs") can unleash a powerful, latent ability for motor learning even for severely paretic arms. While UTs may not reduce clinical impairment, they may facilitate large improvements in a specific functional ability.
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2014-03-22
Dataset) ...................... 102 Equation 12. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin ( KMO ) Index Measure of Sampling Adequacy ....... 102 Equation 13. Bartlett’s Test of...was performed was the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (Kaiser, 1970) test. The Kaiser-Meyer- Olkin ( KMO ) test was used as an index to measure sampling adequacy. In...essence KMO is a measure of the strength of the relationship among variables (Williams et al., 2012). The KMO formula is shown in Equation 12
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Zhen, Congai; Gao, Xiwu
2016-02-01
In China, the green mirid bug, Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür), has caused severe economic damage to many kinds of crops, especially the cotton and jujubes. Pyrethroid insecticides have been widely used for controlling this pest in the transgenic Bt cotton field. Five populations of A. lucorum collected from cotton crops at different locations in China were evaluated for lambda-cyhalothrin resistance. The results showed that only the population collected from Shandong Province exhibited 30-fold of resistance to lambda-cyhalothrin. Neither PBO nor DEF had obvious synergism when compared the synergistic ratio between SS and RR strain which was originated from the Shandong population. Besides, there were no statistically significant differences (p>0.05) in the carboxylesterase, glutathione S-transferase, or 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase activities between the Shandong population and the laboratory susceptible strain (SS). The full-length sodium channel gene named AlVSSC encoding 2028 amino acids was obtained by RT-PCR and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). One single point mutation L1015F in the AlVSSC was detected only in the Shandong population. Our results revealed that the L1015F mutation associated with pyrethroid resistance was identified in A. lucorum populations in China. These results will be useful for the rational chemical control of A. lucorum in the transgenic Bt cotton field. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Lucia Caloi
1986-12-01
Full Text Available Abstract Biometric data from the examination of skulls of Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Meyer (Canninita cave, Palermo, Sicily are compared with the data relative to the skulls of two fossil hippos of european Pleistocene and of the living species Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus. Even taking into account the inhomogeneity of the fossil specimens and the deformation suffered by the skulls of H. pentlandi from Cannita cave, the examination confirms on one hand the stronger affinity of the sicilian species with the living H. amphibius and from the other hand the peculiarities that characterize this form with respect to the european continental ones. A comparative examination of the biometric characters of the skull of these latter species confirms the greater distance of H. antiquus Desmarest from the living species. It is stressed how the relations between the less bulky Pleistocene species (Hippopotamus incognitus Faure with H. antiquus and with the living H. amphibius have not yet been completely clarified, owing both to the scantiness of the documentation and to the strong variability observed in the biometric characters of the few known skulls. It is noted how, in any case, this fossil form appears more similar to the living H. amphibius. For the moment its distinction at a specific level is accepted, even if with reservation, taking into account also the distinctive elements recognized in the post-cranial skeleton (FAURE, 1985, not examined here. Riassunto Vengono analizzati e posti a confronto i dati biometrici ricavati dall'analisi dei crani di Hippopotamus pentlandi Von Heyer della Grotta della Cannita (Palermo, Sicilia, degli ippopotami fossili del Pleistocene continentale europeo e della specie vivente Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus. Vengono da un lato confermate le maggiori affinità tra H. pentlandi
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Рюдигер Фриц
2016-12-01
Full Text Available The paper is about a photographer Albert Meyer who was the first one to immortalize on the photos the members of the International Olympic Committee. The skills of Meyer is shown along with the care with which the photographer had composed his shots detailing the placement of all those who should be present in the photo. It is noted that Meyer did a splendid job for the Olympic movement. Without his shots we would learn much less about Olympic Games in Athens 1896.
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Paradoxical effect of spatially homogenous transparent fields on simultaneous contrast illusions.
Dixon, Erica; Shapiro, Arthur G
2014-04-01
In simultaneous brightness contrast (SBC) demonstrations, identical mid-luminance disks appear different from each other when one is placed on a black background while the other is placed on a white background. The strength of SBC effects can be enhanced by placing a semi-transparent layer on top of the display (Meyer's effect). Here, we try to separate the causes of Meyer's effect by placing a spatially homogenous transparent layer over a standard SBC display, and systematically varying the transmission level (alpha=0, clear; alpha=1, opaque) and color (black, gray, white) of the semi-transparent layer. Spatially homogenous transparent layers, which lack spatial cues, cannot be unambiguously interpreted as transparent fields. We measure SBC strength with both matching and ranking procedures. Paradoxically, with black layers, increasing alpha level weakens SBC when measured with a ranking procedure (no Meyer's effect) and strengthens SBC when measured with a matching procedure (Meyer's effect). With white and gray layers, neither procedure produces Meyer's effect. We account for the differences between white and black layers by positing that the visual system separates luminance from contrast. The results suggest that observers attend to different information in the matching and ranking procedures.
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Estnische Klaviermusik / Andreas K. W. Meyer
Meyer, Andreas K. W.
1995-01-01
Uuest heliplaadist "Estnische Klaviermusik. Mägi: Die alte Kannel; Kangro: Suite op. 1; Rääts: Toccata; Sumera: Stück aus dem Jahre 1981; Tüür: Sonate; Vähi: Fata Morgana; Pärt: Partita. Lauri Väinmaa (Klavier)" (AD: 1993). Finlandia/East West Records CD 4509-95704-2 (WD:57'08")
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uniforme et réducteur avec lequel le critique tente de rassembler les productions ..... Cette bête semble être tout le contraire de la bête qui marque son territoire: .... “rites génétiques” (121); grâce à sa posture, l'écrivain arrive “à montrer à ...
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Temporalized Epistemic Default Logic
van der Hoek, W.; Meyer, J.J.; Treur, J.; Gabbay, D.
2001-01-01
The nonmonotonic logic Epistemic Default Logic (EDL) [Meyer and van der Hoek, 1993] is based on the metaphore of a meta-level architecture. It has already been established [Meyer and van der Hoek, 1993] how upward reflection can be formalized by a nonmonotonic entailment based on epistemic states,
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Syllable Frequency and Syllable Structure in Apraxia of Speech
Aichert, Ingrid; Ziegler, Wolfram
2004-01-01
Recent accounts of the pathomechanism underlying apraxia of speech (AOS) were based on the speech production model of Levelt, Roelofs, and Meyer, and Meyer (1999)1999. The apraxic impairment was localized to the phonetic encoding level where the model postulates a mental store of motor programs for high-frequency syllables. Varley and Whiteside…
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Meyer, Anne Merete Boye; Jacobsen, Charlotte Munch
1996-01-01
Meyer, A. S. & C. Jacobsen, 1996. Fate of the synergistic antioxidant system ascorbic acid, lecithin, and tocopherol in mayonnaise: Partion of ascorbic acid, J. Food Lipids, 3, 139-147.......Meyer, A. S. & C. Jacobsen, 1996. Fate of the synergistic antioxidant system ascorbic acid, lecithin, and tocopherol in mayonnaise: Partion of ascorbic acid, J. Food Lipids, 3, 139-147....
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William Healy, M.D., Father of the American Child Guidance Movement
1981-08-01
courts, was another important development, starting in 1899. Meyer, Sigmund Freud , and Healy all contributed to the next step, which coupled the...Dummer Papers lists 454 correspondents. The prominent psychiatrists include: Franz Alexander, Trigant Burrow, Havelock Ellis, Flanders Dunbar, Sigmund ... Freud , Roy Grinker, William Healy, Karen Homey, Marion E. Kenworthy, Lawson Lowrey, Julse Masserman, Karl Menninger, Adolf Meyer, Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Álvaro José de Almeida Bicudo
2014-03-01
Full Text Available Many methods to estimate amino acid requirement based on amino acid profile of fish have been proposed. This study evaluates the methodology proposed by Meyer & Fracalossi (2005 and by Tacon (1989 to estimate amino acids requirement of fish, which do exempt knowledge on previous nutritional requirement of reference amino acid. Data on amino acid requirement of pacu, Piaractus mesopotamicus, were used to validate de accuracy of those methods. Meyer & Fracalossi's and Tacon's methodology estimated the lysine requirement of pacu, respectively, at 13 and 23% above requirement determined using dose-response method. The values estimated by both methods lie within the range of requirements determined for other omnivorous fish species, the Meyer & Fracalossi (2005 method showing better accuracy.
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Out of The Melting Pot Into The Fire
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Morsing, Mette; Hockerts, Kai
2014-01-01
Over the past two and a half decades Claus Meyer, one of Denmark’s most innovative serial entrepreneurs, had built a group of businesses which covered diverse sectors and industries all related to food craftsmanship. The story of his bakeries, delis, restaurants, vinegar production, canteens......, as well as a hotel and a fruit plantation was driven by his mission to improve Danish food culture. Crucial stepping stones in this endeavour had been his launching of the Meyer TV series about cooking, the Nordic Food Movement and Restaurant Noma’s world best restaurant status. Most recently, Claus Meyer...... had been invited to start up a 1200 m2 large deli and restaurant at the iconic Vanderbuilt Hall at Grand Central Station in New York....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: H for Handling
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2015-01-01
Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til H for Handling.......Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til H for Handling....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: T for Tillid
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Meyer, Gitte; Lund, Anker Brink
2016-01-01
Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til T for Tillid.......Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til T for Tillid....
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2014-07-01
FIML Full Information Maximum Likelihood KMO Kaiser-Meyer-Oklin LEQ Learning Environment Questionnaire LO Learning Organisation LOS Learning...adequacy of the correlations’ magnitude was initially tested by using Kaiser-Meyer-Oklin ( KMO ) (Kaiser, 1974) and Bartlett’s test of sphericity (see...Table 4). Table 4: EFA assumption testing of ALOQ: Adequacy of correlation strength Assumption tests 44 item set* 21 item set KMO measure of
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2000-04-04
legitimacy A review of institutional theory (Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Scott, 1995; Zucker, 1983) suggests a set of institutional domains that Scott (1995:35...psychology (Berger & Luckman, 1967) and the cognitive school of institutional theory (Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Zucker, 1983). Organizations have to conform to...regression analysis for business and economics. Belmont, CA: Duxbury. DiMaggio, P.J. 1988. Interest and agency in institutional theory . In L.G
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Civilsamfundets ABC: R for Regulering
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Meyer, Gitte; Lund, Anker Brink
2016-01-01
Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til R for Regulering.......Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til R for Regulering....
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Centaurea tchihatcheffii Fischer & C.A. Meyer (Asteraceae)
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Tan, Kit; Vural, Mecit
2007-01-01
Abstract Centaurea tchihatcheffii is a steppic annual possessing some unique features absent in other Centaureas. The chromosome number is 2n = 20, differing from all other annual species of Centaurea sect. Cyanus. The type locality as published is erroneous and the correct provenance is provided....
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Excess molar volumes and viscosities of binary mixtures of some ...
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A study on relationship between organizational culture and organizational commitment
Maryam Khalili
2014-01-01
This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between organizational culture and organization commitment. The study uses two questionnaires, one for measuring organizational commitment originally developed by Meyer and Allen (1991) [Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1991). A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment. Human resource management review, 1(1), 61-89.] and the other one for organizational culture developed by Denison and Spreitzer (1991)...
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Civilsamfundets ABC: G for Gensidighed
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2015-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt. Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til G for Gensidighed.......Bogstaveligt talt. Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til G for Gensidighed....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: J for Journalisme
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2016-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt. Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til J for Journalisme.......Bogstaveligt talt. Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til J for Journalisme....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: N for Norm
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2016-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til N for Norm.......Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til N for Norm....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: V for Velfærd
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Meyer, Gitte; Lund, Anker Brink
2016-01-01
Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til V for Velfærd.......Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til V for Velfærd....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: M for Marked
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2016-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til M for Marked.......Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til M for Marked....
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2012-03-01
edu 75 Appendix C Factor Analysis of Measurement Items Interrole conflict Factor Analysis (FA): Table: KMO and Bartlett’s Test Kaiser-Meyer...Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. 77 POS FA: Table: KMO and Bartlett’s...Tempo FA: Table: KMO and Bartlett’s Test Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy. .733 Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity Approx. Chi-Square
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Civilsamfundets ABC: O for Offentlighed
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2016-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til O for Offentlighed.......Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til O for Offentlighed....
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Civilsamfundets ABC: L for Legitimitet
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Lund, Anker Brink; Meyer, Gitte
2016-01-01
Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til L for Legitimitet.......Bogstaveligt talt: Hvad er civilsamfundet? Anker Brink Lund og Gitte Meyer fra CBS Center for Civil Society Studies gennemgår civilsamfundet bogstav for bogstav. Vi er nået til L for Legitimitet....
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Heroes for a Wicked World: Enders Game as a Case for Fiction in PME
2015-06-10
Sengers, “Narrative Intelligence,” 3. 84. Blair, D. and Meyer, T. “Tools for an Interactive Virtual Cinema .” Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors...Conflict . . . in Space. Historian Max Hastings writes, “It was the Japanese people’s ill-fortune that it became feasible to bomb them just when American...2012). Blair, D. and Meyer, T. “Tools for an Interactive Virtual Cinema .” Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors: Towards Autonomous Personality
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Aeschlimann, Heidi; Aeberli-Niquille, Christian Louis; Allemann, Rolf; Arnet, Esther; Burri Sharani, Barbara; Grünwald, Hugo Stephan; Gugger, Peter; Hürlimann, Fred W.; Meyer, Peter Michael; Meyer, Sara; Raeder, Sabine; Ruh, Hans; Schenker, Sybille; Wüthrich, Doris
2004-01-01
Meyer, Sara: Neue Lebensräume Arnet, Esther: Lebensraum Öffentlichkeit, Dürfen Politikerinnen Visionen haben? Burri Sharani, Barbara: Lebensraum Kosova, Die Frau des Bruders der Frau des ... Ruh, Hans (Prof.): Lebensraum Zeit, Höher weiter schneller länger? Meyer, Paul Michael: Lebensraum Schule, Warum ist hier möglich, was dort unmöglich scheint? Raeder Sabine (Dr.): Lebensraum Arbeit, Flexible Identitäten in flexibilisierten Arbeitsverhältnissen Gugger, Peter: Lebensraum...
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Perspectives on Embedded Media
2004-01-01
allowed him to report whatever he wanted, as long as it was accurate and did not compromise operational security. Jim Landers and Cheryl Diaz -Meyers...and Diaz -Meyers photographed the scene. The 51 article was published on 6 April 2003, describing the incident with the same detail as Cerre: They...anti-coalition agenda. It is fair to state that each side achieved its aims, though not without controversy or obstacles. Alicia Sheppard, in
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Molecular Identification of Human Fungal Pathogens
2011-03-01
Zhang, S., Cuenca- Estrella , M., Tudela, J. L. R., Castelli, J. L. R., Mellado, E., Kidd, S., Morrissey, O., Simmon, K., Petti, C., Snelders, E...J. Cano, M. Cuenca- Estrella , E. Dannaoui, J. Guarro, G. Haase, C. Kibbler, W. Meyer, K. O’Donnell, C. Petti, J. Rodriguez-Tudela, D. Sutton, A...1. Balajee, S. A., A. M. Borman, M. E. Brandt, J. Cano, M. Cuenca- Estrella , E. Dannaoui, J. Guarro, G. Haase, C. C. Kibbler, W. Meyer, K
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Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009
2013-10-01
Histoire de la Marine française des origines à nos jours (Rennes, Fr.: Editions Ouest-France, 1994); for a bibliographical essay, Hervé Couteau...Ribadieu, Histoire maritime de Bordeaux. Aventures des corsaires marzagalli 53 meyers$:___WIP from C 032812:_Newport Papers:_NP_40 Commerce:_InDesign:03...see Henri Legohérel, Histoire de la Marine française (Paris: PUF, 1999), pp. 67–70; and Martine Acerra and Jean Meyer, Marines et Révolution
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Knowledge machines digital transformations of the sciences and humanities
Meyer, Eric T
2015-01-01
In Knowledge Machines, Eric Meyer and Ralph Schroeder argue that digital technologies have fundamentally changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Meyer and Schroeder show that digital tools and data, used collectively and in distributed mode -- which they term e-research -- have transformed not just the consumption of knowledge but also the production of knowledge. Digital technologies for research are reshaping how knowledge advances in disciplines that range from physics to literary analysis. Meyer and Schroeder map the rise of digital research and offer case studies from many fields, including biomedicine, social science uses of the Web, astronomy, and large-scale textual analysis in the humanities. They consider such topics as the challenges of sharing research data and of big data approaches, disciplinary differences and new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, the shifting boundaries between researchers and their publics, and the ways that digital tools promote o...
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On the link between partial meet, kernel, and infra contraction and its application to horn logic
CSIR Research Space (South Africa)
Booth, R
2011-09-01
Full Text Available Intelligence Research 42 (2011) 31-53 Submitted 4/11; published 9/11 On the Link between Partial Meet, Kernel, and Infra Contraction and its Application to Horn Logic Richard Booth richard.booth@uni.lu Universit e du Luxembourg Luxembourg Thomas Meyer... tommie.meyer@meraka.org.za Centre for Arti cial Intelligence Research University of KwaZulu-Natal and CSIR Meraka Institute South Africa Ivan Varzinczak ivan.varzinczak@meraka.org.za Centre for Arti cial Intelligence Research University of Kwa...
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Advanced Space Propulsion Study - Antiproton and Beamed Power Propulsion
1987-10-01
H. Koch, A. Kreissl, H. Poth, U. Raich, D. Rohmann, C. Backenstoss, Ch. Findeisen , J. Repond, L. Tauscher, A. Nilsson, S. Carius, M. Suffert, S...Backenstcss, I. Bergstr8m, S. Carius, S. Chj&rLlambous, M.D. Cooper, Ch. Findeisen , D. Hatsifotiadou, M. Hugi, A. Kerek, H.O. Meyer, P. Pavlopoulos, J. Repond...Chjaralambous, M.D. Cooper, Ch. Findeisen . D. Hatzifotiadou, M. Hugi, A. Kerek, H.O. Meyer, P. Pavlopoulos, J. Repond, L. T&uscher, D. Tr8ster, M.C.S
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A BCR-ABL Kinase Activity-Independent Signaling Pathway in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
2008-02-01
Breitenstein W, Bruggen J, Cowan-Jacob SW, Ray A, Huntly B, Fabbro D, Fendrich G, Hall-Meyers E, et al. (2005) Cancer Cell 7:129–141. 10. Druker BJ...2532–9. 15. Weisberg E, Manley PW, Breitenstein W, Bruggen J, Cowan-Jacob SW, Ray A, Huntly B, Fabbro D, Fendrich G, Hall-Meyers E, Kung AL, Mestan J...HG, Mountford JC, Holyoake TL. Punish the parent not the progeny. Blood. 2005; 105: 1862–6. 63. Pfeifer H, Wassmann B, Pavlova A, Wunderle L, Oldenburg
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Et nyt perspektiv på magt i det sociale arbejde
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Prieur, Annick; Henriksen, Lars Skov
2004-01-01
Artiklen er et reviewessay af to bøger: M. Järvinen, J. E. Larsen og N. Mortensen (red.): Det magtfulde møde mellem system og klient (2002) og M. Järvinen og N. Mik-Meyer (red.): At skabe en klient (2003).......Artiklen er et reviewessay af to bøger: M. Järvinen, J. E. Larsen og N. Mortensen (red.): Det magtfulde møde mellem system og klient (2002) og M. Järvinen og N. Mik-Meyer (red.): At skabe en klient (2003)....
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Neuropathic Pain - Current Concepts | Meyer | South African Family ...
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Neuropathic pain (NP) represents a common and diverse group of disorders with peripheral and/or central nervous system damage or dysfunction. Many patients report intractable and severe pain that is resistant to simple analgesics. The diagnosis of NP is primarily based on clinical evaluation rather than diagnostic tests.
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Pedro Meyer vastutab oma piltide eest / Laura Kuusk
Kuusk, Laura, 1982-
2007-01-01
Mehhiko fotograafi Pedro Meyeri tutvustus. P. Meyeri ettekande tekst "Kui dokumentaalne teile meeldis, siis digitaalset hakkate armastama", esitatud Soomes Jyväskyläs 2006. a. oktoobris toimunud fotograafiakonverentsil
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Back to Basics: Abrahamse and Meyer's digestible Othello ...
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Shakespeare in Southern Africa. Journal Home · ABOUT THIS JOURNAL · Advanced Search · Current Issue · Archives · Journal Home > Vol 27 (2015) >. Log in or Register to get access to full text downloads.
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Gravity-supported exercise with computer gaming improves arm function in chronic stroke.
Jordan, Kimberlee; Sampson, Michael; King, Marcus
2014-08-01
To investigate the effect of 4 to 6 weeks of exergaming with a computer mouse embedded within an arm skate on upper limb function in survivors of chronic stroke. Intervention study with a 4-week postintervention follow-up. In home. Survivors (N=13) of chronic (≥6 mo) stroke with hemiparesis of the upper limb with stable baseline Fugl-Meyer assessment scores received the intervention. One participant withdrew, and 2 participants were not reassessed at the 4-week follow-up. No participants withdrew as a result of adverse effects. Four to 6 weeks of exergaming using the arm skate where participants received either 9 (n=5) or 16 (n=7) hours of game play. Upper limb component of the Fugl-Meyer assessment. There was an average increase in the Fugl-Meyer upper limb assessment score from the beginning to end of the intervention of 4.9 points. At the end of the 4-week period after the intervention, the increase was 4.4 points. A 4- to 6-week intervention using the arm skate significantly improved arm function in survivors of chronic stroke by an average of 4.9 Fugl-Meyer upper limb assessment points. This research shows that a larger-scale randomized trial of this device is warranted and highlights the potential value of using virtual reality technology (eg, computer games) in a rehabilitation setting. Copyright © 2014 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Daniel Felipe de Oliveira Gentil
2005-09-01
Full Text Available Astrocaryum aculeatum (tucumã é uma palmeira amazônica, cuja polpa dos frutos, rica em vitamina A, pode ser consumida ao natural ou na forma de sorvete, suco, licor e doce. Sua propagação é demorada, existindo pouco conhecimento sobre a germinação das sementes e o desenvolvimento das plântulas. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo descrever o processo germinativo das sementes dessa espécie, submetidas ou não ao pré-tratamento de embebição, e caracterizar cronologicamente os estádios morfológicos da plântula. A germinação das sementes é do tipo adjacente ligulada, criptocotiledonar e hipógea. O tempo para alcançar cada estádio foi menor para as sementes embebidas, indicando efeito benéfico da embebição sobre a velocidade do processo germinativo, com média de emergência do pecíolo cotiledonar de 99 dias e de completa expansão da primeira folha bífida de 253 dias.Astrocaryum aculeatum (tucumã is an Amazonian palm tree, whose fruit pulp is rich in vitamin A and can be consumed fresh or in ice creams, juices, liqueurs and sweets. Its propagation is slow and little knowledge exists about the seed germination and seedling development. This study describes and characterizes the morphological stages of seedling development, during the germination of seeds, pre-treatmented or not with soaking in water. The germination of seeds is of the adjacent ligular, cryptocotylar and hypogeal type. The time to each stage was shorter for the soaked seeds, indicating a beneficial effect on the speed of the germination process, with mean time of emergence of the cotyledonal petiole being 99 days and complete expansion of the first leaf bifid by 253 days.
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Genomic Variability of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV Isolates Introduced into Morocco
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Bouabid Lbida
2004-08-01
Full Text Available Genomic variability of the coat protein gene of Citrus tristeza virus isolates obtained from old Meyer lemon introductions in Morocco and more recent budwood introductions from Spain were studied. The coat protein gene of the virus was amplified directly from infected tissue by immunocapture RT-PCR and analysed by single stranded conformation polymorphism (SSCP and sequencing. Each isolate consisted of several related genomic variants, typical of a quasi-species. Although SSCP analysis has only limited typing ability it could be used in an initial screening to discriminate between isolates of different origin and to analyse the genomic structure of each isolate. Sequence analysis showed that the isolates of Spanish origin were closely related to mild isolates characterised in Florida and in Portugal. The Meyer lemon isolate on the other hand was related to severe strains of Meyer lemon characterised in Florida some years ago and to other severe strains from Brasil. A knowledge of the coat protein gene sequence is useful to trace the origin of the isolates.
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Energy levels distribution in supersaturated silicon with titanium for photovoltaic applications
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Pérez, E., E-mail: eduper@ele.uva.es; Castán, H.; García, H.; Dueñas, S.; Bailón, L. [Dept. de Electricidad y Electrónica, Universidad de Valladolid, ETSI Telecomunicación, Paseo de Belén 15, 47011 Valladolid (Spain); Montero, D.; García-Hernansanz, R.; García-Hemme, E.; González-Díaz, G. [Dept. de Física Aplicada III (Electricidad y Electrónica), Univ. Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid (Spain); CEI Campus Moncloa, UCM-UPM, 28040 Madrid (Spain); Olea, J. [CEI Campus Moncloa, UCM-UPM, 28040 Madrid (Spain); Instituto de Energía Solar, E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid (Spain)
2015-01-12
In the attempt to form an intermediate band in the bandgap of silicon substrates to give it the capability to absorb infrared radiation, we studied the deep levels in supersaturated silicon with titanium. The technique used to characterize the energy levels was the thermal admittance spectroscopy. Our experimental results showed that in samples with titanium concentration just under Mott limit there was a relationship among the activation energy value and the capture cross section value. This relationship obeys to the well known Meyer-Neldel rule, which typically appears in processes involving multiple excitations, like carrier capture/emission in deep levels, and it is generally observed in disordered systems. The obtained characteristic Meyer-Neldel parameters were Tmn = 176 K and kTmn = 15 meV. The energy value could be associated to the typical energy of the phonons in the substrate. The almost perfect adjust of all experimental data to the same straight line provides further evidence of the validity of the Meyer Neldel rule, and may contribute to obtain a deeper insight on the ultimate meaning of this phenomenon.
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Energy levels distribution in supersaturated silicon with titanium for photovoltaic applications
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Pérez, E.; Castán, H.; García, H.; Dueñas, S.; Bailón, L.; Montero, D.; García-Hernansanz, R.; García-Hemme, E.; González-Díaz, G.; Olea, J.
2015-01-01
In the attempt to form an intermediate band in the bandgap of silicon substrates to give it the capability to absorb infrared radiation, we studied the deep levels in supersaturated silicon with titanium. The technique used to characterize the energy levels was the thermal admittance spectroscopy. Our experimental results showed that in samples with titanium concentration just under Mott limit there was a relationship among the activation energy value and the capture cross section value. This relationship obeys to the well known Meyer-Neldel rule, which typically appears in processes involving multiple excitations, like carrier capture/emission in deep levels, and it is generally observed in disordered systems. The obtained characteristic Meyer-Neldel parameters were Tmn = 176 K and kTmn = 15 meV. The energy value could be associated to the typical energy of the phonons in the substrate. The almost perfect adjust of all experimental data to the same straight line provides further evidence of the validity of the Meyer Neldel rule, and may contribute to obtain a deeper insight on the ultimate meaning of this phenomenon
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Creating motion graphics with After Effects essential and advanced techniques
Meyer, Chris
2010-01-01
* 5th Edition of best-selling After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer covers the important updates in After Effects CS4 and CS5 * Covers both essential and advanced techniques, from basic layer manipulation and animation through keying, motion tracking, and color management * Companion DVD is packed with project files for version CS5, source materials, and nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters Trish and Chris Meyer share over 17 years of hard-earned, real-world film and video production experience inside this critically acclaimed text. More than a step-by-step review of th
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Momentum integral network method for thermal-hydraulic transient analysis
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Van Tuyle, G.J.
1983-01-01
A new momentum integral network method has been developed, and tested in the MINET computer code. The method was developed in order to facilitate the transient analysis of complex fluid flow and heat transfer networks, such as those found in the balance of plant of power generating facilities. The method employed in the MINET code is a major extension of a momentum integral method reported by Meyer. Meyer integrated the momentum equation over several linked nodes, called a segment, and used a segment average pressure, evaluated from the pressures at both ends. Nodal mass and energy conservation determined nodal flows and enthalpies, accounting for fluid compression and thermal expansion
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Pain management in primary care – current perspectives | Meyer ...
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According to a 1998 World Health Organization Survey of 26 000 primary care ... in pain medicine and continue to follow the biomedical approach, which ... The modern paradigm of pain management has moved from this biomedical to the ...
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Platz, T; Eickhof, C; van Kaick, S; Engel, U; Pinkowski, C; Kalok, S; Pause, M
2005-10-01
To study the effects of augmented exercise therapy time for arm rehabilitation as either Bobath therapy or the impairment-oriented training (Arm BASIS training) in stroke patients with arm severe paresis. Single blind, multicentre randomized control trial. Three inpatient neurorehabilitation centres. Sixty-two anterior circulation ischaemic stroke patients. Random assignment to three group: (A) no augmented exercise therapy time, (B) augmented exercise therapy time as Bobath therapy and (C) augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training. Fugl-Meyer arm motor score. Secondary measure: Action Research Arm Test (ARA). Ancillary measures: Fugl-Meyer arm sensation and joint motion/pain scores and the Ashworth Scale (elbow flexors). An overall effect of augmented exercise therapy time on Fugl-Meyer scores after four weeks was not corroborated (mean and 95% confidence interval (CI) of change scores: no augmented exercise therapy time (n=20) 8.8, 5.2-12.3; augmented exercise therapy time (n=40) 9.9, 6.8-13.9; p = 0.2657). The group who received the augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training (n=20) had, however, higher gains than the group receiving the augmented exercise therapy time as Bobath therapy (n=20) (mean and 95% CI of change scores: Bobath 7.2, 2.6-11.8; BASIS 12.6, 8.4-16.8; p = 0.0432). Passive joint motion/pain deteriorated less in the group who received BASIS training (mean and 95% CI of change scores: Bobath -3.2, -5.2 to -1.1; BASIS 0.1, -1.8-2.0; p = 0.0090). ARA, Fugl-Meyer arm sensation, and Ashworth Scale scores were not differentially affected. The augmented exercise therapy time as Arm BASIS training enhanced selective motor control. Type of training was more relevant for recovery of motor control than therapeutic time spent.
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Fujita, Hiromasa
2017-02-01
The first successful resection of a cancer in the thoracic esophagus was performed by Franz Torek around one hundred years ago. Awareness of developments in surgery and the early history can stimulate and foster innovation among surgeons, as well as promote a deeper appreciation of the pioneers of the methods still used today. Here we report the conditions leading to Torek's operation performed in 1913. In the operation, anesthesia was achieved by tracheal insufflation. Ernst Sauerbruch, a surgeon in Germany, first developed a negative-pressure chamber for anesthesia in 1903 and subsequently used this in many open-chest operations. Then in 1909 Samuel Meltzer, a physiologist in New York, proposed ventilation through an intratracheal tube while under anesthesia. Soon afterwards, Sauerbruch gave his chamber to Willey Meyer, a surgeon in the New York German Hospital, who reported Sauerbruch's success in operations in the American journal. The negative-pressure chamber was sent to the Meltzer's laboratory where Meltzer demonstrated that tracheal insufflation was superior to the negative-pressure chamber for open thoracic operations. These findings were conveyed to Meyer and to Franz Torek, a surgeon in the New York German Hospital and a colleague of Meyer, who succeeded in the historical first resection of a cancer in the thoracic esophagus according to Meltzer.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — Spore recovery data during sample packaging decontamination tests. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Calfee, W., J. Tufts, K. Meyer, K....
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A Moment in the Auto/biographical Enterprise | Jansen | Current ...
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Abstract. Judith Lütge Coullie, Stephan Meyer, Thengani H Ngwenya and Thomas Olver (eds). (2006) Selves in Question: Interviews on Southern African Auto/biography. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
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Spatiotemporal modeling of WNV in mosquitoes in Suffolk County
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — R code and dataset to produce spatial models. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Meyer, M., S. Campbell, and J. Johnston. Spatiotemporal...
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Standard Operating Procedures for Female Genital Sexual Pain
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Fugl-Meyer, Kerstin S; Bohm-Starke, Nina; Damsted Petersen, Christina
2012-01-01
Introduction. Female genital sexual pain (GSP) is a common, distressing complaint in women of all ages that is underrecognized and undertreated. Definitions and terminology for female GSP are currently being debated. While some authors have suggested that GSP is not per se a sexual dysfunction......, but rather a localized genial pain syndrome, others adhere to using clearly sexually related terms such as dyspareunia and vaginismus. Aim. The aims of this brief review are to present definitions of the different types of female GSP. Their etiology, incidence, prevalence, and comorbidity with somatic......-Meyer KS, Bohm-Starke N, Damsted Petersen C, Fugl-Meyer A, Parish S, and Giraldi A. Standard operating procedures for female genital sexual pain. J Sex Med **;**:**-**....
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A simple algorithm for computing canonical forms
Ford, H.; Hunt, L. R.; Renjeng, S.
1986-01-01
It is well known that all linear time-invariant controllable systems can be transformed to Brunovsky canonical form by a transformation consisting only of coordinate changes and linear feedback. However, the actual procedures for doing this have tended to be overly complex. The technique introduced here is envisioned as an on-line procedure and is inspired by George Meyer's tangent model for nonlinear systems. The process utilizes Meyer's block triangular form as an intermedicate step in going to Brunovsky form. The method also involves orthogonal matrices, thus eliminating the need for the computation of matrix inverses. In addition, the Kronecker indices can be computed as a by-product of this transformation so it is necessary to know them in advance.
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A Temporal Analysis of the Relation between Organisational Commitment and Work Motivation
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Marylène Gagné
2008-06-01
Full Text Available Meyer, Becker, and Vandenberghe (2004 recently proposed a model linking work motivation to organisational commitment. Two studies tested these links prospectively with employees from a Canadian telecommunications company and from an Italian autoparts company. Self-determination theory provided the framework to measure work motivation, such that measures of external, introjected and identified regulation, and intrinsic motivation were linked to Allen and Meyer's (1990 and to O'Reilly and Chatman's (1986 tripartite models of organisational commitment. We hypothesised that Time 1 motivation would be related to changes in commitment over time, but that Time 1 commitment would not be related to motivational changes over time. Results supported hypotheses for affective and normative commitment, but not for continuance commitment.
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Research Article Special Issue
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2017-09-10
Sep 10, 2017 ... parameters including energy consumption, moisture adsorption, Meyer hardness .... was measured using weighing balance and for the volume was .... system for internal combustion engine in presence of acoustic resonator.
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Maailma majandusse suurkontsernide kaudu / Tiina Hakman
Hakman, Tiina
1996-01-01
Maailma suurfirmade esindused Eestis: Ericsson, ABB, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Neste, Shell. Ilmunud ka: Molodjozh Estonii, 6. aug. 1996, lk. 3; Russkaja Gazeta, 27. aug. 1996, lk. 3
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2012-11-13
... Mill, Jesus Barcinas Rd., Merizo, 12000973 INDIANA Porter County Meyer, Dr. John and Gerda, House, 360..., 345 Main St., East Aurora, 12000981 Herkimer County Perry, Stuart and William Swezey Houses, 7541...
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An investigation into the determinants of women entrepreneurship / N. Meyer
Meyer, Nanette
2009-01-01
The important role that entrepreneurship plays to combat unemployment should not be underestimated, especially in countries with growing unemployment rates such as South Africa. Women entrepreneurs can contribute significantly to economic development in South Africa, but their contribution has not been adequately studied and developed. In the South African context, it is challenging for men and women to start a business, but women face unique challenges in starting and growing a business,...
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Proteomic variation in Korean ginseng (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer ...
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Ulysses Akporoba
2016-08-10
Aug 10, 2016 ... number of ginsenoside types contained in Korean ginseng (38 ... License 4.0 International License .... AnchorChip TM 600/384 MALDI plate (Bruker Daltonik), and ... The peptide mass fingerprint search included a few.
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William Fox and Ivan H. Meyer. Public Administration Dictionary, 1995.
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Power and authority are defined as meaning the same, while there is a clear distinction between them. Power is a personal concept, perhaps even a physical one. It is a ... constitution where it acts to prevent excesses of power on the part of officials. The President, when he ... We should get rid of the habit of using the term ...
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From Calculus to Wavelets: ANew Mathematical Technique
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
expansions have many theoretical and practical ..... them into a rigorous mathematical theory. Meyer con- structed an ... engineers for signal processing, Ingrid Daubechies con- ..... and its applications on a somewhat higher mathematical level.
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Maristela C. X. Pelicioni
2016-01-01
Full Text Available Motor rehabilitation of stroke survivors may include functional and/or nonfunctional strategy. The present study aimed to compare the effect of these two rehabilitation strategies by means of clinical scales and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI. Twelve hemiparetic chronic stroke patients were selected. Patients were randomly assigned a nonfunctional (NFS or functional (FS rehabilitation scheme. Clinical scales (Fugl-Meyer, ARA test, and modified Barthel and fMRI were applied at four moments: before rehabilitation (P1 and immediately after (P2, 1 month after (P3, and three months after (P4 the end of rehabilitation. The NFS group improved significantly and exclusively their Fugl-Meyer scores at P2, P3, and P4, when compared to P1. On the other hand, the FS group increased significantly in Fugl-Meyer at P2, when compared to P1, and also in their ARA and Barthel scores. fMRI inspection at the individual level revealed that both rehabilitation schemes most often led to decreased activation sparseness, decreased activity of contralesional M1, increased asymmetry of M1 activity to the ipsilesional side, decreased perilesional activity, and decreased SMA activity. Increased M1 asymmetry with rehabilitation was also confirmed by Lateralization Indexes. Our clinical analysis revealed subtle differences between FS and NFS.
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Evidence Based Therapeutic Outcome of Multimodal Therapy on ...
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This probably culminated to the high incidents of HIV/AIDS recorded in ... curriculum and reveals that though it improved knowledge of sexuality, however, ..... details, including both subjective and objective information (Meyers-Levy, 1989).
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Defense AT&L (Volume 36, Number 6, November-December 2007)
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2007-01-01
...: An End-to-End Look at Cross-Functional Relationships," by Kimberly Meyer -- When planning for IUID implementation, the PM needs a cross-functional team of experts to insure that no important areas are forgotten...
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2001-01-01
Hofmann and Meyers have received honorary doctorates from the University of Geneva for their essential contributions to LEP. Article goes on to describe awards other CERN staff have received in 2001/20012 (1 page).
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT ANDORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE: A CONCEPTUAL DISCUSSION
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Fitnat Nazlı Sayğan
2011-07-01
Full Text Available In this study, the affective commitment that is oneof the components oforganizational commitment put forth by Allen and Meyer (Allen, Meyer 1996will be differentiated from the other commitment components. The importance ofcreating an emotional commitment to organizations will be examined and theorganizational factors needed to form organizational commitment will beinvestigated. Also, organizational silence is a situation that the company avoided.In the study, the reasons and the drawbacks of silence are focused on and thefactors that cause employees to remain silent are discussed.The aim of this study is intended to manifest the relationship of ‘organizationalsilence' with affective commitment’ which is one ofthe components of‘organizational commitment’ on the basis of literature. In this study, a negativecorrelation between affective commitment and organizational silence is suggested
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The Holistic Leadership Model and the Nurse Unit Manager ...
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partnership with the New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Abstract. Effective ... approach to leadership that has the potential to create a work environment defined ... rules, and seek and follow direction, whereas a leader.
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Genetic variation in ecoraces of tropical tasar silkworm, Antheraea ...
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used to reconstruct more ancient evolutionary events (Meyer et al. 1995). ... the PCR amplified products. Formerly, 13 diverse strains of silkworm, Bombyx mori, were ... Phylogenetic studies on ancestral position of microsatel- lite sequences in ...
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Hu, Liangbing; Wu, Hui; Cui, Yi
2010-01-01
We report carbon nanotube thin film-based supercapacitors fabricated with printing methods, where electrodes and separators are integrated into single sheets of commercial paper. Carbon nanotube films are easily printed with Meyer rod coating or ink
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The role of patients' illness representations in coping and functioning with Addison's disease.
Heijmans, M.
1999-01-01
Objective: To examine the relationship between illness representations, coping behaviour and adaptive outcome in patients with Addison's disease (AD). Design: Cross-sectional. Following Leventhal's self-regulation model (Leventhal, Meyer & Nerenz, 1980), it was hypothesized that illness
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Whole body and egg amino acid composition of Nile perch, Lates ...
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Nile perch (Lates niloticus) is a freshwater carnivorous fish and a couple of authors have ... relationship to the amino acid (AA) profile in fish because ... American catfish Rhamdia quelen (Meyer and Fracalossi,. 2005). ...... North Beach Western.
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Both Converging Toward And Diverging From Global Paradigms
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Li, Peter Ping
2015-01-01
Response to article by Shawn Pope and John W. Meyer: "The Global Corporate Organization" published in the Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion editorial section of Management and Organization Review (MOR), 11:2, June 2015, 173–177....
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Effective chemical control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests in ...
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Effective chemical control of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) pests in mango orchards in northern Côte-d'Ivoire. OR N'depo, N Hala, A N'da Adopo, F Coulibaly, PK Kouassi, JF Vayssieres, M de Meyer ...
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carbonaceous phyllite/graphitic schist in the Archean Kundarkocha
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rocks of noble metals (Meyers et al. 1990). Such complexes host gold deposits in North–East. Russia (Natalka, Mayskoe ..... carbonic phases using Laser Raman Spectrometry ... Graphite was formed by the reaction between CH4 and CO2.
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Environmental influences on antibody-enhanced dengue disease outcomes.
Diniz, Daniel Guerreiro; Fôro, César Augusto Raiol; Turiel, Maíra C Pereira; Sosthenes, Marcia C K; Demachki, Sâmia; Gomes, Giovanni Freitas; Rego, Carla M Damasceno; Magalhães, Marina Cutrim; Pinho, Brunno Gomes; Ramos, Juliana Pastana; Casseb, Samir M Moraes; Brito, Maysa de Vasconcelos; da Silva, Eliana Vieira Pinto; Nunes, Marcio Roberto Teixeira; Diniz, José Antonio Picanço; Cunningham, Colm; Perry, Victor Hugh; Vasconcelos, Pedro F Costa; Diniz, Cristovam W Picanço
2012-12-01
Because an enriched environment (EE) enhances T-cell activity and T-lymphocytes contribute to immunopathogenesis during heterologous dengue virus (DENV) infections, we hypothesised that an EE increases dengue severity. To compare single serotype (SS) and antibody-enhanced disease (AED) infections regimens, serial intraperitoneal were performed with DENV3 (genotype III) infected brain homogenate or anti-DENV2 hyperimmune serum followed 24 h later by DENV3 (genotype III) infected brain homogenate. Compared AED for which significant differences were detected between the EE and impoverished environmental (IE) groups (Kaplan-Meyer log-rank test, p = 0.0025), no significant differences were detected between the SS experimental groups (Kaplan-Meyer log-rank test, p = 0.089). Survival curves from EE and IE animals infected with the AED regimen were extended after corticoid injection and this effect was greater in the EE than in the IE group (Kaplan-Meyer log-rank test, p = 0.0162). Under the AED regimen the EE group showed more intense clinical signs than the IE group. Dyspnoea, tremor, hunched posture, ruffled fur, immobility, pre-terminal paralysis, shock and death were associated with dominant T-lymphocytic hyperplasia and presence of viral antigens in the liver and lungs. We propose that the increased expansion of these memory T-cells and serotype cross-reactive antibodies facilitates the infection of these cells by DENV and that these events correlate with disease severity in an EE.
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Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany.
Petrou, Marissa H
2018-03-01
In this paper, I discuss the development and use of images employed by the Dresden Royal Museum for Zoology, Anthropology and Ethnography to resolve debates about how to use visual representation as a means of making ethnographic knowledge. Through experimentation with techniques of visual representation, the founding director, A.B. Meyer (1840-1911), proposed a historical, non-essentialist approach to understanding racial and cultural difference. Director Meyer's approach was inspired by the new knowledge he had gained through field research in Asia-Pacific as well as new forms of imaging that made highly detailed representations of objects possible. Through a combination of various techniques, he developed new visual methods that emphasized intimate familiarity with variations within any one ethnic group, from skull shape to material ornamentation, as integral to the new disciplines of physical and cultural anthropology. It is well known that photographs were a favoured form of visual documentation among the anthropological and ethnographic sciences at the fin de siècle. However, in the scholarly journals of the Dresden museum, photographs, drawings, tables and etchings were frequently displayed alongside one another. Meyer sought to train the reader's eye through organized arrangements that represented objects from multiple angles and at various levels of magnification. Focusing on chimpanzees, skulls and kettledrums from Asia-Pacific, I track the development of new modes of making and reading images, from zoology and physical anthropology to ethnography, to demonstrate how the museum visually historicized humankind.
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75 FR 61454 - Electricity Advisory Committee
2010-10-05
... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Electricity Advisory Committee AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of.... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Meyer, Designated Federal Officer, Office of Electricity... following electronic file formats are acceptable: Microsoft Word (.doc), Corel Word Perfect (.wpd), Adobe...
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Humidification in intensive care
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Nicky
2005-07-26
Jul 26, 2005 ... direct methods such as fluid instillation11 and administration of .... in traps, emptying these may add to nursing workload. Secondly .... Ryan SN, Rankin N, Meyer E, Williams R. Energy balance in the intubated human airway.
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Research Article Special Issue
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2017-11-24
Nov 24, 2017 ... successful application of this approach for creating mathematical models and their use in ...... Jay C. Hsu, Andrew U. Meyer, Modern control principles and applications: - New-York: McGraw-hill book company, 1972 – 544pp.
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Evaluation of the consequences of thermal isolation on biota of upper Steel Creek
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Gladden, J.B.
1984-04-01
The objective of this report is to summarize and evaluate existing data concerning the upper reaches of Steel Creek on the Savannah River Plant (SRP) near Aiken, South Carolina. This report addresses the current ecological status of this stream section and the need and/or desirability of maintaining an ambient water temperature zone of passage with lower Steel Creek or the nearby Meyers Branch, an undisturbed watershed that is a major tributary to Steel Creek. The specific case evaluated involves the construction of an 800 to 1000 acre cooling reservoir on Steel Creek upstream of the confluence of Steel Creek and Meyers Branch. Water temperatures exiting this reservoir are assumed to never exceed 90 0 F. Studies were conducted in connection with the proposed restart of the L-Reactor at SRP. 8 references, 3 figures, 2 tables
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Meyer, Walter J
2006-01-01
Meyer''s Geometry and Its Applications, Second Edition, combines traditional geometry with current ideas to present a modern approach that is grounded in real-world applications. It balances the deductive approach with discovery learning, and introduces axiomatic, Euclidean geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, and transformational geometry. The text integrates applications and examples throughout and includes historical notes in many chapters. The Second Edition of Geometry and Its Applications is a significant text for any college or university that focuses on geometry''s usefulness in other disciplines. It is especially appropriate for engineering and science majors, as well as future mathematics teachers.* Realistic applications integrated throughout the text, including (but not limited to): - Symmetries of artistic patterns- Physics- Robotics- Computer vision- Computer graphics- Stability of architectural structures- Molecular biology- Medicine- Pattern recognition* Historical notes included in many chapters...
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Eisinga, R.; Teelken, Ch.; Doorewaard, H.
2010-01-01
This study examined cross-national invariance of Meyer and Allen’s three-component model of organizational commitment using samples of university faculty from six European countries. The analysis revealed strict factorial measurement invariance of affective, continuance, and normative organizational
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Modeling Contextual Determinants of HIV/AIDS Prevalence in South ...
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As a result, it was argued to go beyond the KABP determinant studies to focus on contextual ... guided most of the determinant studies which formed a basis .... risk factor, i.e. gender power relations or ..... communication with Anna Meyer-Weitz.
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Structure modification and medical application of the natural products by proton beam irradiation
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Lee, D. W.; Park, J. K.; Kang, J. E.; Shin, S. C.; Ahn, J. H.; Lee, E. S.
2008-04-01
This study was performed for the investigation of changes of constituent contents of Korean ginseng (Panax genseng C.A. Meyer) after proton beam irradiation (Beam energy from MC-50 cyclotron : 36.5MeV) with beam range of 500 - 10000Gy
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2003-01-01
Osalevad Peeter Allik, Mila Balti, Chintis, Margit Joonas, Toomas Kuusing, Hannes Paldrok, Meeland Sepp, Inge Ting, Taje Tross, Andrus Joonas, Bille Tuul, Mariliis Beilmann, Olle Meyer, Sorge, rühmitus Non Grata, Asta Isak, Marianne Männi, Ville-Karel Viirelaid
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Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia - Vol 23, No ...
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Robert Wise, Kim de Vasconcellos, David Skinner, Reitze Rodseth, Dean Gopalan, David Muckart, Zohra Banoo, Tashmin Bisseru, Steve Blakemore, Jenine de Meyer, Michael Faurie, Kom Govender, Timothy Hardcastle, Prakash Jeena, Nicky Kalafatis, Kroshlan Kistan, Theroshnie Kisten, Carolyn Lee, Colin Mitchell, ...
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Structure modification and medical application of the natural products by proton beam irradiation
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Lee, D. W.; Park, J. K.; Kang, J. E.; Shin, S. C.; Ahn, J. H.; Lee, E. S. [Dongguk University, Gyeongju (Korea, Republic of)
2008-04-15
This study was performed for the investigation of changes of constituent contents of Korean ginseng (Panax genseng C.A. Meyer) after proton beam irradiation (Beam energy from MC-50 cyclotron : 36.5MeV) with beam range of 500 - 10000Gy
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HIV and/or AIDS awareness among adolescents in a South African ...
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2016-06-09
Jun 9, 2016 ... of HIV and/or AIDS-related illnesses, who reside in a rural ... taken to identify any child experiencing discomfort or potential .... when she was seriously ill. ..... Meyers-Ohki S, Charrow A, Hansen N. Mental health and resilience.
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An Application-Oriented Periodic Table of the Elements.
Bouma, J.
1989-01-01
A brief history of several of the early forms of the periodic table of the elements are discussed including those of Mendeleev, Meyer, Hubbard, Gmelin, Von Antropoff, and Strong. A more every-day-life form of the table is presented. (CW)
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Festivalipäevik Kanutist II / Anu Allas, Margit Tõnson, Margaret Tali
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2005-01-01
Tallinnas Kanuti Gildi saalis kestab 2.-24. novembrini 2005 a. "Continental Breakfast" Tallinn ehk rahvusvaheline NU Performance festival. 9. novembril esineb BabaLAN (Vlado Gotvan Repnik, Sloveenia ) multimeedia-performance'iga. Eva Meyer Kelleri performance "Surm on kindel" (esitaja Irina Müller)
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Occurrence of three leech species (Annelida: Hirudinida) on fishes in the Kentucky River
Leeches were collected from six fish species distributed among four of ten sites sampled. The leech species observed were Myzobdella reducta (Meyer, 1940) and Myzobdella lugubris Leidy, 1851 of the family Piscicolidae and Placobdella pediculata Hemingway, 1908 of the family Gloss...
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Can simple population genetic models reconcile partial match ...
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partment of Public Safety (DPS) for information about addi- tional databases .... The proportion of people in the simulated databases from each of five ethic groups. .... at both differing values of θ and, in the case of Meyer's work, different ...
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Abelova cena v roce 2017 udělena za teorii waveletů
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Křížek, Michal
2017-01-01
Roč. 62, č. 3 (2017), s. 161-170 ISSN 0032-2423 Institutional support: RVO:67985840 Keywords : wavelet * multiresolution analysis * Meyer set * gravitational waves Subject RIV: BA - General Mathematics OBOR OECD: Applied mathematics http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/146921
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A finite difference method for free boundary problems
Fornberg, Bengt
2010-01-01
Fornberg and Meyer-Spasche proposed some time ago a simple strategy to correct finite difference schemes in the presence of a free boundary that cuts across a Cartesian grid. We show here how this procedure can be combined with a minimax
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The romanticization of abstinence: Fan response to sexual restraint in the Twilight series
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Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, and Melissa A. Click
2010-09-01
Full Text Available Meyer's Twilight series has been criticized for its regressive gender representations. To understand its continuing appeal, we problematize the messages of abstinence and romance in the series, and contextualize fans' response with a discussion of postfeminist culture.
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Dynamics of nanoparticules detected at 1 AU by S/WAVES onboard STEREO spacecraft
Belheouane, Soraya; Issautier, Karine; Meyer-Vernet, Nicole; Le Chat, Gaétan; Czechowski, Andrzej; Zaslavsky, Arnaud; Zouganelis, Yannis; Mann, Ingrid
In order to interpret in detail the S/WAVES data on the interplanetary nanodust discovered by STEREO at 1 AU [Meyer-Vernet et al., 2009], we study the dynamics of nanoparticles in the inner interplanetary medium as well as the distribution of their velocities and directions of arrival, with a model based on [Czechowski and Mann, 2012]. We deduce the charges released by their impacts on the STEREO spacecraft at 1 AU and their dependence on the position of the spacecraft on their orbits. The model studies nanoparticles of size equal or smaller than about 70 nm, assumed to be created via collisional fragmentation of dust grains of larger size moving on keplerian orbits, and sublimation of dust, meteoroids and comets. The nanoparticles are released near the Sun with initial velocities close to keplerian, and mainly subjected to the Lorentz force calculated with a simple solar wind model. A part of the nanoparticles is accelerated to high speeds of the order of 300 km/s, thereby providing impact charges between 10(-14) and 10(-11) Cb [Belheouane, 2014] which enable them to be detected by S/WAVES, whereas another part is trapped within about 0.2 AU from the Sun. We discuss how the fluxes and direction of arrival at 1 AU are expected to change in function of the solar cycle. These results enable us to interpret in detail the STEREO/WAVES observations [Zaslavsky et al., 2012]; [Pantellini et al., 2013]; [Le Chat et al., 2013]. Belheouane, S. (2014). Nanoparticules dans le vent solaire, observations spatiales et theorie. PhD thesis, Pierre and Marie Curie University UPMC. Czechowski, A. and Mann, I. (2012). Nanodust Dynamics in Interplanetary Space, chapter Nanodust Dynamics in Interplanetary Space. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Le Chat, G., Zaslavsky, A., Meyer-Vernet, N., Issautier, K., Belheouane, S., Pantellini, F., Maksimovic, M., Zouganelis, I., Bale, S., and Kasper, J. (2013). Interplanetary Nanodust Detection by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory/WAVES Low
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Some Biochemical Effects Of a Mainly Fruit Diet In Man | Meyer ...
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The effect of a nut-supplemented fruit diet on glucose tolerance, insulin secretion, plasma proteins and plasma lipids of human volunteers was investigated. The results suggest that, at least for the period covered by the experiment and under the prevailing conditions, the diet was adequate with respect to the parameters ...
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Prediction of Oil Critical Rate in Vertical Wells using Meyer-Gardner ...
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2018-04-14
Apr 14, 2018 ... Department of Petroleum and Gas Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, ..... impermeable barrier, extending radially from the ... useful aid to field engineers for predicting critical rate.
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Die ballade van Robbie de Wee en ander verhale. Deon Meyer ...
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gulde geleentheid om daaruit munt te slaan (330). Dinge loop egter lelik skeef wanneer 'n sogenaamde “groupie” in. Robbie se hotelkamer sterf. Gevolglik moet Len, die eerstepersoonsverteller, skarrel om van die lyk ontslae te raak, en die leser word teen wil en dank. 'n medepligtige in hierdie makabere opruimingstaak.
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Abo, Masahiro; Kakuda, Wataru; Momosaki, Ryo; Harashima, Hiroaki; Kojima, Miki; Watanabe, Shigeto; Sato, Toshihiro; Yokoi, Aki; Umemori, Takuma; Sasanuma, Jinichi
2014-07-01
Many poststroke patients suffer functional motor limitation of the affected upper limb, which is associated with diminished health-related quality of life. The aim of this study is to conduct a randomized, multicenter, comparative study of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with intensive occupational therapy, NEURO (NovEl intervention Using Repetitive TMS and intensive Occupational therapy) versus constraint-induced movement therapy in poststroke patients with upper limb hemiparesis. In this randomized controlled study of NEURO and constraint-induced movement therapy, 66 poststroke patients with upper limb hemiparesis were randomly assigned at 2:1 ratio to low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation plus occupational therapy (NEURO group) or constraint-induced movement therapy (constraint-induced movement therapy group) for 15 days. Fugl-Meyer Assessment and Wolf Motor Function Test and Functional Ability Score of Wolf Motor Function Test were used for assessment. No differences in patients' characteristics were found between the two groups at baseline. The Fugl-Meyer Assessment score was significantly higher in both groups after the 15-day treatment compared with the baseline. Changes in Fugl-Meyer Assessment scores and Functional Ability Score of Wolf Motor Function Test were significantly higher in the NEURO group than in the constraint-induced movement therapy group, whereas the decrease in the Wolf Motor Function Test log performance time was comparable between the two groups (changes in Fugl-Meyer Assessment score, NEURO: 5·39 ± 4·28, constraint-induced movement therapy: 3·09 ± 4·50 points; mean ± standard error of the mean; P < 0·05) (changes in Functional Ability Score of Wolf Motor Function Test, NEURO: 3·98 ± 2·99, constraint-induced movement therapy: 2·09 ± 2·96 points; P < 0·05). The results of the 15-day rehabilitative protocol showed the superiority of NEURO
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Mad, terroir og tv: Smag på Danmark!
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Dorthe Refslund Christensen
2008-09-01
Full Text Available Mad fylder mere i medierne, men hvordan underholder fx et madprogram på tv? Med afsæt i de 13 afsnit af Claus Meyer-serien Smag på Danmark! undersøger vi, hvordan serien er konstrueret og fortalt. Især ser vi på, hvilken rolle de 13 forskellige steder, som serien foregår på, har. Vi diskuterer begreber som terroir og mytologisering. Serien etablerer dobbeltheder og relationer, og i tråd med dette forlenes sted som terroir både med al og med ingen betydning. Mad knyttes som et tegn, med Barthes in mente, til stedet, men på en måde, der leverer rum for seerens eget forestillingsarbejde. Serien demonstrerer for seerne, hvordan smagsdomme kan foregå med Meyer som seerens stedfortræder i et ferie- og fritidsunivers. Den nydelse, som serien konstant etablerer, demonstrerer og anticiperer, kan seeren deltage i med sit eget fantasiarbejde: Det er god underholdning, fordi så meget er overladt til seernes forestillingsarbejde. Food, Terroir, and Television: Taste Denmark! Food has become more dominant in the media landscape, but how does a food programme on television entertain us? We analyse how the 13 episodes of the Claus Meyer series Smag på Danmark (Taste Denmark!are constructed and narrated. We pay particular attention to the different locations of the episodes and discuss the terms terroir and mythologization. The series establishes ambiguities and relations, and in this connection the location understood as terroir means everything – and at the same time means nothing at all. With reference to Barthes, the series links food as a sign to location, but in such a way that room is left for the viewer’s own imagination. The series demonstrates to the viewers how judgements of taste can be made in a time of leisure and a universe of holidays, with Meyer acting as the viewer’s proxy. The series is constantly establishing, demonstrating and anticipating a pleasure in which the viewer can participate in his or her own imagination
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CSIR Research Space (South Africa)
Meyer, Rory GV
2016-07-01
Full Text Available the Understanding of Our Living Planet, 10-15 July 2016, Beijing, China Small ships don't shine: Classification of ocean vessels from low resolution, large swath area SAR acquisitions R. G. V. Meyer ; W. Kleynhans ; C. P. Schwegmann Abstract: Monitoring...
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Resensieartikel – Germanistische Linguistik
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Peter Meyer, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim: Entlehnungsketten in einem Internetportal für Lehnwörterbücher. IT-Infrastruktur und computerlexiko- graphischer Prozess in einem Projekt zu polnisch vermittelten Germanismen im Ost- slavischen [Ontleningsreekse in 'n internetportaal vir leenwoordwoordeboeke.
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Interannual variability of the tropical Indian Ocean mixed layer depth
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Keerthi, M.G.; Lengaigne, M.; Vialard, J.; Montegut, C.deB.; Muraleedharan, P.M.
, shoaling the MLD (Masson et al. 2002, Qu and Meyers 2005, Du et al. 2005). The seasonal cycle in the southern tropical Indian Ocean has been less 3 investigated. Seasonal shoaling and deepening of the mixed layer in the south-western Tropical Indian...
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Serum lipase should be the laboratory test of choice for suspected ...
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2014-08-03
Aug 3, 2014 ... all patients presenting to the surgical admissions unit with acute ..... John KD, Segal I, Hassan H, Levy RD, Amin M. Acute pancreatitis in Sowetan ... Clavien PA, Robert J, Meyer P, et al. ... Sutton PA, Humes DJ, Purcell G, et al.
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Petersen, Lars Axel
2014-01-01
kortlagt. Ud over Hitlers magtfulde politiske retorik er det i Hans Grimms roman Volk ohne Raum, Karl Haushofers geopolitiske rumstudier, Konrad Meyers rumforskning, Carl Schmitts udkast til en ’folkeretslig storrumsordning’ samt i Werner Bests maximer for en etnicistisk storrumsforvaltning, at rum...
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75 FR 34805 - Program Integrity Issues
2010-06-18
... Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant (National Smart Grant) Programs. DATES: We must receive your... Association of College and University Business Officers, representing business officers. Val Meyers, Michigan... identifying and handling test score abnormalities, ensuring the integrity of the testing environment, and...
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2012-06-19
... academic and behavioral needs, with frequent data-based monitoring for instructional decision-making... for all students so as to maximize the participation of all learners, by making learning opportunities... and motivation for learning (Rose & Meyer, 2006). Successful implementation of inclusive school-wide...
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2005-01-01
12. XI Eva Meyer-Kelleri (Saksamaa/Rootsi) etendus "Surm on kindel/Death is Certain". Performance'i esitab Irina Müller. 14. XI esitab Kim H. Veltman (Kanada/Holland) performance'i "Maailmapuu/World Tree". 15. XI Katrin Essensoni etendus "Designed to make Difference"
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The Relationship between Career Growth and Organizational Commitment
Weng, Qingxiong; McElroy, James C.; Morrow, Paula C.; Liu, Rongzhi
2010-01-01
This research examines the relationship between employees' career growth and organizational commitment. Career growth was conceptualized by four factors: career goal progress, professional ability development, promotion speed and remuneration growth, while organizational commitment was conceptualized using Meyer and Allen's (1997) three component…
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Matrix Determination of Reflectance of Hidden Object via Indirect Photography
2012-03-01
19. Cross-section of setup used in experimental and simulated trials. The law of sines gives sin () d = sin () 15.5−(Cy+Δy...Article. Coimbra, Portugal : University of Coimbra. Meyer-Spradow, J., & Loviscach, J. (2003). Evolutionary Design of BRDFs. Proceedings of
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2011-08-01
used ( Hemingway , 1961; Crawford, 1962; Schmidt-Nielsen, 1970; Meyer, 1989). The panting frequency depends on individual MWD anthropometrics...of temperature regulation in the unanesthetized dog. J. Appl. Physiol. 213(2):547-556. 12. Hemingway , A. 1961. The panting response of normal un
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2010-04-09
... benefits; or Demonstrating and disseminating: (a) Innovative models for the delivery of cost-effective... innovative, consumer- responsive, and individual- and family-centered models for the delivery to both rural...., Schlegel, S., & Meyer-Heim, A. (2009). Virtual reality- based paediatric interactive therapy system (PITS...
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Protection of fundamental rights today
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Meyer-Abich, K.M.
1984-01-01
Technical developments can both change the methods of dealing with existing conflicts, and cause new conflicts. Meyer-Abich analyzes five conflicts caused by the technological development in the solution of which the constitutional, liberal, and democratic protection of fundamental rights is not at all guaranteed. Meyer-Abich thinks that these new conflicts can be solved in the framework of the liberal constitutional state, if legal and political consequences are taken in order to guarantee the uncharged protection of fundamental rights under changing conditions. The necessary reforms can, however, only be realized if the way how state and science see themselves changes. Both have to give up their one-sidedness into which have been pushed by conflict which havbe been caused by the scientific and technical development. Only then it will be possible to solve the jemerging conflicts without eopardizing the integritiy of the society. (orig.) [de
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A study on relationship between organizational culture and organizational commitment
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Maryam Khalili
2014-07-01
Full Text Available This paper presents an empirical investigation to study the relationship between organizational culture and organization commitment. The study uses two questionnaires, one for measuring organizational commitment originally developed by Meyer and Allen (1991 [Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1991. A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment. Human resource management review, 1(1, 61-89.] and the other one for organizational culture developed by Denison and Spreitzer (1991 [Denison, D. R., & Spreitzer, G. M. (1991. Organizational culture and organizational development: A competing values approach. Research in organizational change and development, 5(1, 1-21.]. The study is accomplished among selected full time employees who work for an Iranian bank named Bank Saderat Iran. Using Pearson correlation test as well as linear regression methods, the study has determined that there were some positive and meaningful relationship between all components of organizational commitment and organizational culture.
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Modeling molecular mixing in a spatially inhomogeneous turbulent flow
Meyer, Daniel W.; Deb, Rajdeep
2012-02-01
Simulations of spatially inhomogeneous turbulent mixing in decaying grid turbulence with a joint velocity-concentration probability density function (PDF) method were conducted. The inert mixing scenario involves three streams with different compositions. The mixing model of Meyer ["A new particle interaction mixing model for turbulent dispersion and turbulent reactive flows," Phys. Fluids 22(3), 035103 (2010)], the interaction by exchange with the mean (IEM) model and its velocity-conditional variant, i.e., the IECM model, were applied. For reference, the direct numerical simulation data provided by Sawford and de Bruyn Kops ["Direct numerical simulation and lagrangian modeling of joint scalar statistics in ternary mixing," Phys. Fluids 20(9), 095106 (2008)] was used. It was found that velocity conditioning is essential to obtain accurate concentration PDF predictions. Moreover, the model of Meyer provides significantly better results compared to the IECM model at comparable computational expense.
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Technology Implementation and Curriculum Engagement for Children and Youth Who Are Deafblind
Hartmann, Elizabeth; Weismer, Patricia
2016-01-01
The authors discuss the research of education professionals concerned with children and youth with deafblindness, presenting three theoretical frameworks and models useful for integrating technology into learning environments: (a) UDL (universal design for learning; Meyer, Rose, & Gordon, 2014), (b) SETT (student, environment, task, tools;…
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dysequilibrium and presyncope, it can be difficult to tease out a ... K Bateman,1 MB ChB, FCP Neurol (SA); C Rogers,2 MSc (Audiology); E Meyer,3 MB ... inserting eye drops or reaching for an ... Peripheral v. central eye signs in acute vertigo.
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Daudigeos, Thibault; Boxenbaum, Eva; Colombero, Sylvain
How do rational myths survive over time? According to Meyer and Rowan (1977), rational myths provide idealized cultural accounts of how organizations should operate. They have two key properties: 1) they are rationalized prescriptions that specify in a rulelike way the appropriate means to ration...
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Microhardness studies on nonlinear optical L-alanine single crystals
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
2016-08-26
Aug 26, 2016 ... ... increasing load. Meyer's index number () calculated from v shows that the material belongs to the soft material category. Using Wooster's empirical relation, the elastic stiffness constant (11) was calculated from Vickers hardness values. Young's modulus was calculated using Knoop hardness values.
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Siram, pseud., 1968-
2011-01-01
Kaasaegse kunsti festivali "Art ist kuku nu ut" näitused: "Art Must Be Beautiful. Marina Abramovići valitud teosed" Tartu Kunstimuuseumis 13. novembrini; "Keeldumised" Tartu Kunstimajas 16. oktoobrini (saksa kuraatorid Ellen Blumenstein, Kathrin Meyer); "Tartust ära" Y-Galeriis 30. oktoobrini 2011
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Orlando, Ludovic Antoine Alexandre
2014-01-01
By combining state-of-the-art approaches in ancient genomics, Meyer and co-workers have reconstructed the mitochondrial sequence of an archaic hominin that lived at Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain about 400,000 years ago. This achievement follows recent advances in molecular anthropology that delivere...
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Kallenberg, L.A.C.; Hermens, Hermanus J.
2009-01-01
The aim of this study was to investigate motor unit (MU) characteristics of the biceps brachii in post-stroke patients, using high-density surface electromyography (sEMG). Eighteen chronic hemiparetic stroke patients took part. The Fugl-Meyer score for the upper extremity was assessed. Subjects
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1994-01-01
Organizatins Health maintenance organizations have usually been distinguished from traditional health care indemnity plans that permit covered individuals to...Capitation and reform- Challenges and choice for hospital leadership . Haeitals, 67 (7), 23-26. Freund, D. A., Rossiter, L. F., Fox, P. D. Meyer, J. A
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The lungs in rheumatoid arthritis - a clinical, radiographic and ...
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The lungs in rheumatoid arthritis - a clinical, radiographic and pulmonary function study. Stephen C. Morrison, Girish M. Mody, Sally R. Benatar, Orlando L Meyers. Abstract. Objective. To detennine the prevalence and spectrum of pulmonary abnormalities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a developing country.
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Middelhoven, W.J.; Brink, Jolanda A. van den; Veenhuis, M.
1983-01-01
Yeast strains capable of utilizing uric acid as the sole source of carbon and energy were isolated from soil by the enrichment culture method. The strains were identified as Candida famata (Harrison) Meyer et Yarrow and Trichosporon cutaneum (De Beurm., Gougerot et Vaucher) Ota. On the subcellular
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An Organization Development Approach to Technology Transfer in the National Forest Service.
1981-09-01
environmental influences such as governmental intervention. Meyer [Ref. 23: pp. 56-57] illustrates this point by presenting an analogy involving the automobile ...Command Washington, D.C. 20370 23. Director for HRM Plans and Policy (OP-150) 1 Human Resource Management Division Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
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Book Review | Brewis | Journal of Student Affairs in Africa
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Meyer, H.-D., St. John, E.P., Chankseliani, M. & Uribe, L. (Eds.). (2013). Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. Full Text: EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL ...
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Female Focalizers and Masculine Ideals: Gender as Performance in Twilight and the Hunger Games
Guanio-Uluru, Lykke
2016-01-01
Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series (2005-2008) and Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" series (2008-2010) have been hugely successful and influential texts, both as best-selling literary works and as action movie franchises. (To avoid confusion, "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" in this essay refer to the…
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Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
prize ('the Nobel Prize of Mathematics'). Meyer's pivotal work on wavelet theory has led to breakthroughs in a wide spectrum of areas. For instance, some applications of wavelet analysis are in – applied and computational harmonic analysis, data compression, noise reduction, medical imaging, archiving, digital cinema, de-.
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Review of Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats
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Ralf B. Meyer
2012-04-01
Full Text Available How to cite this book review: Meyer, R.B., 2012, ‘Review of Acupuncture for Dogs and Cats’, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association 83(1, Art. #20, 1 page. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/jsava.v83i1.20
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2015-05-01
Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Method. Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 1996, 356, 445–451. 5. Ivy, M.A.; Gallagher, L.T.; Ellington, A.D.; Anslyn, E.V...6. Wypych, G. Handbook of Plasticizers; ChemTec Publishing: Ontario, Canada, 2004. 7. Mayer, M.; Meyer, B . Characterization of Ligand Binding
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Modeling river dune evolution using a parameterization of flow separation
Paarlberg, Andries J.; Dohmen-Janssen, C. Marjolein; Hulscher, Suzanne J.M.H.; Termes, Paul
2009-01-01
This paper presents an idealized morphodynamic model to predict river dune evolution. The flow field is solved in a vertical plane assuming hydrostatic pressure conditions. The sediment transport is computed using a Meyer-Peter–Müller type of equation, including gravitational bed slope effects and a
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Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür) (Hemiptera: Miridae) is an important insect pest of cotton, fruit trees and other crops in China, and exhibits a particularly broad host range. Adult A. lucorum greatly prefers host plants at the flowering stage, and their populations track flowering plants both spatiall...
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CrossTalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering. Volume 21, Number 7
2008-07-01
However, when your staff ’s passion goes from Edelweiss [1] to Kewpie Station [2], be sure your protective structures fan, rather than extinguish, the... Kewpie Station.” Everybody Loves You. Velour, 2003. 3. August Rush. Dir. Kirsten Sheridan. Perf. Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Directional Time-frequency Analysis via Continuous Frames
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Christensen, Ole; Forster, Birgitte; Massopust, Peter
2015-01-01
spaces. The first step allows us to apply the theory to several other classes of frames, for example wavelet frames and shift-invariant systems, and the second one significantly extends the class of examples and applications. We consider applications to the Meyer wavelet and complex B...
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Damhof, Loes; DeWitt, Janine; Wolfensberger, Marca
2014-01-01
Connected through a screen, two classes that are an ocean apart take the same course and do the same assignments. Our course “ The Global Village” is a globally networked learning environment (Starke-Meyerring and Wilson, 2008) where students from two different universities work and learn together
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Membrane potentials of membranes with fixed ionic sites
van den Berg, Albert; van der Wal, P.D.; van der Wal, P.D.; Skowronska-ptasinska, M.; Sudhölter, E.J.R.; Sudholter, Ernst; Bergveld, Piet; Reinhoudt, David
1990-01-01
A theoretical model has been developed to simulate the formation of a membrane potential as a function of physically accessible parameters. The description is an extension of the well-known Teorell-Meyer-Sievers (TMS) model, now including free and fixed ionic sites and free and fixed neutral
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Health SA Gesondheid - Vol 9, No 3 (2004)
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The prevalence of side-effects: ciprofloxacin 500 mg single dose prophylaxis against Neisseria meningitidis outbreak in Potchefstroom during July 2003: research · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Michelle Viljoen, Martie S Lubbe, Rina Meyer, 42-54 ...
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2011-05-16
... Rulemaking Submitted by the Professional Reactor Operator Society AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission...) submitted by Robert Meyer, on behalf of the Professional Reactor Operator Society (PROS), the petitioner, in... definition of ``site outage'' read ``up to one week prior to disconnecting the reactor unit from the grid and...
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Continuing Medical Education - Vol 27, No 1 (2009)
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Continuing Medical Education - Vol 27, No 1 (2009). Journal Home > Archives > Vol 27, No 1 (2009). Log in or Register to get access to full text downloads. ... Addiction treatment · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. R Meyer ...
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Three-component particle image velocimetry in a generic can-type gas turbine combustor
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Meyers, Bronwyn C
2012-11-01
Full Text Available -1 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy November 2012/ Vol. 226(7) Three-componentParticle Image Velocimetry in a Generic Can-type Gas Turbine Combustor B C Meyers 1, 2* , G C Snedden 1 , J P...
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Investigating Joint Attention Mechanisms through Spoken Human-Robot Interaction
Staudte, Maria; Crocker, Matthew W.
2011-01-01
Referential gaze during situated language production and comprehension is tightly coupled with the unfolding speech stream (Griffin, 2001; Meyer, Sleiderink, & Levelt, 1998; Tanenhaus, Spivey-Knowlton, Eberhard, & Sedivy, 1995). In a shared environment, utterance comprehension may further be facilitated when the listener can exploit the speaker's…
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An update on the side channel cryptanalysis of MACs based on cryptographic hash functions
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Gauravaram, Praveen; Okeya, Katsuyuki
2007-01-01
Okeya has established that HMAC/NMAC implementations based on only Matyas-Meyer-Oseas (MMO) PGV scheme and his two refined PGV schemes are secure against side channel DPA attacks when the block cipher in these constructions is secure against these attacks. The significant result of Okeya's analys...
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Taguchi, Naoko; Xiao, Feng; Li, Shuai
2016-01-01
Participants were 109 American college students studying Chinese in a study-abroad programme in Beijing. Following Kelley and Meyer, intercultural competence was defined as cross-cultural adaptability involving four dimensions (emotional resilience, flexibility/openness, perceptual acuity and personal autonomy) and was measured with a survey. A…
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Small mammal populations in a restored stream corridor
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Wike, L.D.
2000-01-01
An opportunity to study the response of a small mammal community to restoration of a riparian wetland was provided by the Pen Branch project at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Live trapping of small mammals was conducted on six transects at Pen Branch in 1996 and 1998 and at three transects at Meyer's Branch, an unimpacted stream at SRS, in 1997 and 1998. Distributions of rates of capture of the four most common species were both spatially and temporally uneven. Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance found no significant differences in the relationship of capture rates between species and between treatment and both the within-stream control and Meyers Branch. Habitat use and movement within stream corridors appears to be dependent primarily on species, with age and sex perhaps contributing to preference and distance moved. The lack of differences in capture rates related to transect or treatment may be due to the close proximity of sample transects relative to the movement potential of the species sampled
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Monge-Pereira, E; Casatorres Perez-Higueras, I; Fernandez-Gonzalez, P; Ibanez-Pereda, J; Serrano, J I; Molina-Rueda, F
2017-04-16
In the last years, new technologies such as the brain-machine interfaces (BMI) have been incorporated in the rehabilitation process of subjects with stroke. These systems are able to detect motion intention, analyzing the cortical signals using different techniques such as the electroencephalography (EEG). This information could guide different interfaces such as robotic devices, electrical stimulation or virtual reality. A 40 years-old man with stroke with two months from the injury participated in this study. We used a BMI based on EEG. The subject's motion intention was analyzed calculating the event-related desynchronization. The upper limb motor function was evaluated with the Fugl-Meyer Assessment and the participant's satisfaction was evaluated using the QUEST 2.0. The intervention using a physical therapist as an interface was carried out without difficulty. The BMI systems detect cortical changes in a subacute stroke subject. These changes are coherent with the evolution observed using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment.
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Séminaire de probabilités XXVII
Azéma, Jacques; Meyer, Paul André
1993-01-01
This volume represents a part of the main result obtained by a group of French probabilists, together with the contributions of a number of colleagues, mainly from the USA and Japan. All the papers present new results obtained during the academic year 1991-1992. The main themes of the papers are: quantum probability (P.A. Meyer and S. Attal), stochastic calculus (M. Nagasawa, J.B. Walsh, F. Knight, to name a few authors), fine properties of Brownian motion (Bertoin, Burdzy, Mountford), stochastic differential geometry (Arnaudon, Elworthy), quasi-sure analysis (Lescot, Song, Hirsch). Taken all together, the papers contained in this volume reflect the main directions of the most up-to-date research in probability theory. FROM THE CONTENTS: J.P. Ansal, C. Stricker: Unicite et existence de la loi minimale.- K. Kawazu, H. Tanaka: On the maximum of a diffusion process in a drifted Brownian environment.- P.A. Meyer: Representation de martingales d'operateurs, d'apres Parthasarathy-Sinha.- K. Burdzy: Excursion laws a...
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Energy Levels of Defects Created in Silicon Supersaturated with Transition Metals
García, H.; Castán, H.; Dueñas, S.; García-Hemme, E.; García-Hernansaz, R.; Montero, D.; González-Díaz, G.
2018-03-01
Intermediate-band semiconductors have attracted much attention for use in silicon-based solar cells and infrared detectors. In this work, n-Si substrates have been implanted with very high doses (1013 cm-2 and 1014 cm-2) of vanadium, which gives rise to a supersaturated layer inside the semiconductor. However, the Mott limit was not exceeded. The energy levels created in the supersaturated silicon were studied in detail by means of thermal admittance spectroscopy. We found a single deep center at energy near E C - 200 meV. This value agrees with one of the levels found for vanadium in silicon. The capture cross-section values of the deep levels were also calculated, and we found a relationship between the capture cross-section and the energy position of the deep levels which follows the Meyer-Neldel rule. This process usually appears in processes involving multiple excitations. The Meyer-Neldel energy values agree with those previously obtained for silicon supersaturated with titanium and for silicon contaminated with iron.
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A study on relationship between social entrepreneurship and organizational commitment
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Yadollah Hemmati
2013-08-01
Full Text Available During the past few years, organizational commitment has been a major concern in different types of business activities including banking industry. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to study the relationship between social entrepreneurship and organizational commitment. The proposed study of this paper adapts a standard questionnaire developed by Meyer and Allen [Meyer, J. P., & Allen, N. J. (1991. A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment. Human resource management review, 1(1, 61-89]. Cronbach alpha has been calculated for affective commitment, employee engagement and normative commitment as 0.77, 0.79 and 0.61, respectively. The results of survey indicate that affective commitment, employee engagement and normative commitment have positively influenced organizational commitment, significantly. In addition, Freedman test has indicated that normative commitment is number one priority with mean rank of 2.85 followed by affective commitment with mean rank of 2.47 and employee engagement with the mean rank of 2.26.
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2007-01-01
State secretary to Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, with CERN's Director-General Robert Aymar.On 21 February, Professor Frieder Meyer-Krahmer, State Secretary to Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, came to CERN. He visited the ALICE and ATLAS experiments and the computing centre before meeting the CERN's Director-General, some German physicists and members of the top management. The Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the Baden-Württemberg regional government, Peter Frankenberg, and CERN's Director-General, Robert Aymar, signing an agreement on education. In the background: Sigurd Lettow, CERN's Director of Finance and Human Resources, and Karl-Heinz Meisel, Rector of the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe. The Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the Baden-Württemberg regional government, Prof. Peter Frankenberg, visited CERN on 23 February. He was accompanied by the Rector of the Fachhochschule Karlsruhe, Prof. Karl-Heinz Meisel, and b...
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Meyer (1995) describes land use as "the way in which, and the purposes for which, human beings employ the land and its resources; for example, farming, mining, or lumbering" and land cover as "the physical state of the land surface: as in cropland, mountains, or forests". The def...
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2009-03-06
leishmaniasis vector species. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 37: 10-14. Peterson, A. T., V. Sanchez-Cordero, C. B. Beard, and J. M...Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 37: 10-14. Peterson, A. T., C. Martinez-Campos, Y. Nakazawa, and E. Martinez-Meyer. 2005. Time-specific
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Cytotoxic potential of valerian constituents and valerian tinctures
Bos, R.; Hendriks, H; Scheffer, J.J C; Woerdenbag, H.J.
Underground parts of three Valeriana species, namely V. officinalis L. s.l., V. wallichii DC. (V. jatamansi Jones), and V. edulis Nutt. ex Torr & Gray ssp. procera (H.B.K.) F. G. Meyer (V. mexicana DC.), are used in phytotherapy because of their mild sedative properties. Characteristic constituents
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independenl dcrivations is uncertain, owing to poor resolu- tion in the phylogeny of gekkonine geckos. Most of the originations of regional integumentary loss have ..... Husbandry 8: 96-102. MERTENS, R. 1960. The world of amphibians and reptiles. McGraw-Hili, New York. MEYER, W., BARTELS, T. & NEURAND, K. 1989.
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New chromosome numbers in the genus Trigonella L. ( Fabaceae ...
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Somatic chromosome numbers of 45 Trigonella L. (Fabaceae), collected from different localities in Turkey was examined. Chromosome numbers were determined as 2n = 14, 16, 30 and 46. B chromosome was also observed in somatic cells of some taxa (Trigonella arcuata C.A. Meyer and Trigonella procumbens (Besser) ...
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Box 524, Auckland Park, 2006. A.J. Meyer. Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7600. Received 5 December 1994; accepted 15 May 1995. Calcaridorylaimus sirgeli n.sp. is described from Cape Fynbos in mountains in the south~western Cape Prov- ince. It differs from all ...
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Uvidet zad Dzheka Nikolsona i ne umeret! / Jevgeni Levik
Levik, Jevgeni
2004-01-01
Komöödiafilm "Parem hilja kui mitte kunagi" ("Something's Gotta Give") : režissöör Nancy Meyers : Ameerika Ühendriigid 2003 ja mängufilm "Tõlkes kaduma läinud" ("Lost In Translation") : režissöör Sofia Coppola : Ameerika Ühendriigid 2003
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Patterns of Bureaucracy in Intercollegiate Athletic Departments
Rocha, Claudio M.
2010-01-01
The theoretical argument of the current research is that athletic departments have been effective in attaining their conflicting goals mainly because they have become highly effective in managing institutional rules. Neo-institutionalism (DiMaggio & Powell, 1991), loose coupling (Meyer & Rowan, 1977), and patterns of bureaucracy (Gouldner, 1954)…
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Mislukking en succes bij de ambulante behandeling van dwangneurose
C.A.L. Hoogduin (Cornelis Antonius Leo)
1985-01-01
textabstractMet het werk van Meyer, Rachman, Foa en Emmelkamp is een belangrijke ontwikkeling op gang gekomen met betrekking tot de behandeling van parienten met een dwangneurose. Maakte het in het verleden niet zoveel uit op welke manier deze parienten behandeld werden, de laatste jaren is het vast
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Mother, I really think the flowers go to school underground.” ... ecotypes to new and distant locales, thereby obfuscating its natural, global patterns of .... In Drosophila, PcG proteins generally act by remodelling chromatin ... tions in genomic DNA methylation and local chromatin structure (Meyer 2000; Habu et al 2001).
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Asia honours accelerator physicists
2010-01-01
"Steve Meyers of Cern and Jie Wei of Beijing's Tsinghua University are the first recipients of a new prize for particle physics. The pair were honoured for their contributions to numerous particle-accelerator projects - including Cern's Large Hadron Collider - by the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA)..." (1 paragraph)
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Peterson, Elaine; Carr, Mary M.
Three colleges in the state of Washington--Gonzaga College (Crosby Library), Whitworth College, and Eastern Washington University--received grants from the Fred Meyer Charitable Trust and the Library Services and Construction Act to facilitate coordinated collection development in the areas of education and business/economics, so that their…
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Dawley, David D.; Stephens, Robert D.; Stephens, David B.
2005-01-01
This study explores the multi-dimensionality of organizational commitment of volunteer chamber of commerce board members using the Meyer and Allen (1997) scale. The effect of organizational commitment on desirable board member roles is also tested. Theory is developed by uniting past research in both organizational commitment and employee…
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Urban Middle School Students' Perceptions of Bullying, Cyberbullying, and School Safety
Varjas, Kris; Henrich, Christopher C.; Meyers, Joel
2009-01-01
This study examined 427 urban middle school students' perceptions of bullying, cyberbullying, and school safety utilizing the Student Survey of Bullying Behavior-Revised 2 (Varjas, Meyers, & Hunt, 2006). A unique finding is that cyberbullying may represent a unique modality of victimization and bullying compared with other school-based…
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Larkin, Ingle M.; Brantley-Dias, Laurie; Lokey-Vega, Anissa
2016-01-01
The purpose of this study was to measure and explore factors influencing K-12 online teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intentions. Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (1954), Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory of Satisfaction (1959, 1968), Meyer and Allen's measure of Organizational Commitment (1997), and Fishbein and…
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Ian Duncan. Vol 47, No 1 (2010), Natuur en (skrywende) mens: Petra Müller se verhaalkuns binne die raamwerk van letterkunde as kulturele ekologie, Abstract PDF. S Meyer. Vol 52, No 2 (2015), Negotiating growth in turbulentscapes: Violence, secrecy and growth in Goretti Kyomuhendo's Secrets No More, Abstract PDF.
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Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies - Vol 8 ...
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DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. CM Meyer, 31-39. Nato and warsaw pact · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. N Wagner, 40-46. Die weermag as ontwikkelinginstrument in die derde wêreld · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE ...
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The Amsterdam Hypermedia Model: Adding Time and Context to the Dexter Model
L. Hardman (Lynda); D.C.A. Bulterman (Dick); G. van Rossum (Guido)
1994-01-01
textabstractFrom Computing Reviews, by Jeanine Meyer The purpose of this paper is to convince the reader of the need for a general model for hypermedia and present the Amsterdam hypermedia model (AHM) as fulfilling that need. Hypertext, which is described by the authors as a 'relatively mature
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76 FR 28778 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License; Applicants
2011-05-18
... Individual), Application Type: New NVO & OFF License. Asian Link Logistics, LLC dba Best Global (NVO & OFF... Type: New NVO License. Hansa Meyer Global Transport USA, LLC dba Hansa Shipping LLC, (OFF), 712 Main... & Logistics (Private) Limited dba, Nashrah Shipping and Logistics (NVO), Mezzanine Floor, Trade Ave., Tower 1...
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Dawson, Jesse; Pierce, David; Dixit, Anand; Kimberley, Teresa J; Robertson, Michele; Tarver, Brent; Hilmi, Omar; McLean, John; Forbes, Kirsten; Kilgard, Michael P; Rennaker, Robert L; Cramer, Steven C; Walters, Matthew; Engineer, Navzer
2016-01-01
Recent animal studies demonstrate that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) paired with movement induces movement-specific plasticity in motor cortex and improves forelimb function after stroke. We conducted a randomized controlled clinical pilot study of VNS paired with rehabilitation on upper-limb function after ischemic stroke. Twenty-one participants with ischemic stroke >6 months before and moderate to severe upper-limb impairment were randomized to VNS plus rehabilitation or rehabilitation alone. Rehabilitation consisted of three 2-hour sessions per week for 6 weeks, each involving >400 movement trials. In the VNS group, movements were paired with 0.5-second VNS. The primary objective was to assess safety and feasibility. Secondary end points included change in upper-limb measures (including the Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity). Nine participants were randomized to VNS plus rehabilitation and 11 to rehabilitation alone. There were no serious adverse device effects. One patient had transient vocal cord palsy and dysphagia after implantation. Five had minor adverse device effects including nausea and taste disturbance on the evening of therapy. In the intention-to-treat analysis, the change in Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity scores was not significantly different (between-group difference, 5.7 points; 95% confidence interval, -0.4 to 11.8). In the per-protocol analysis, there was a significant difference in change in Fugl-Meyer Assessment-Upper Extremity score (between-group difference, 6.5 points; 95% confidence interval, 0.4 to 12.6). This study suggests that VNS paired with rehabilitation is feasible and has not raised safety concerns. Additional studies of VNS in adults with chronic stroke will now be performed. URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01669161. © 2015 The Authors.
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A review of the genus Rhizophora with special reference to the Pacific species
Hou, Ding
1960-01-01
The species of the Atlantic Rhizophora have formerly been considered as belonging to one species, R. mangle L. In 1818 G. F. W. Meyer (11) described a second species, R. racemosa, from British Guiana. On working up the Rhizophoras of British Guiana Leechman (10) added a third species, R. harrisonii
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Differences between customer type and consumption stage in terms ...
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failure and the service recovery strategies they prefer. the results of ... Dr C.F. De Meyer is a senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing Management, University of Johannesburg. Prof. ... customers within this context and whether these aspects impact on their consumer ... on business performance (Anupam et al. 2011 ...
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ISSN 2073 ISSN 2073 9990 East Cent. Afr. J. 9990 East Cent. Afr. J.
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Serturner, B.Benjamin R.B: Evolution of opium and discovery of morphine. Annals of surgery, 1988. 17. Gushier C., W J. Meyers: Postoperative pain and Pulmonary Complications. A comparison of three Analgesic regimes. British Journal of surgery, 1955, 723: 495 8. 18. Joel katooz and Ronal Melzack: Pain measurement ...
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Goal-referenced selection of verbal action : Modeling attentional control in the Stroop task
Roelofs, A.P.A.
2003-01-01
This article presents a new account of the Stroop phenomenon (J. R. Stroop, 1935) based on an implemented model of word production, WEAVER++ (W. J. M. Levelt, A. Roelofs, & A. S. Meyer, 1999b; A. Roelofs, 1992, 1997c). Stroop effects are claimed to arise from processing interactions within the
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Institutional credibility and the future of Danish journalism
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Ørsten, Mark; Burkal, Rasmus
Credibility is frequently represented as both an ideal goal for journalism as a profession (Vultree, 2010) and as an integral part of the survival strategy of the news industry (Meyer, 2004). Yet there exists no widely accepted operationalization of the concept of credibility. In this paper we...... ethics among Danish journalists....
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An updated water balance for the Grootfontein aquifer near Mahikeng
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2018-01-01
Jan 1, 2018 ... Council for Geoscience (CGS, 1981; 1986; 1991; and 1993) and the dyke names are after Day (1981). TABle 2. Stratigraphic column (not to scale) showing major lithologies in the Grootfontein area (after Barnard, 2000; CGS, 1991; Johnson et al., 2006; Meyer, 2012). Appx. Age. (Ma). Supergroup / Period.
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Genetic diversity in selected stud and commercial herds of the ...
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Martina
2014-08-29
Aug 29, 2014 ... taurus breeds (Payne & Wilson, 1999). Sanga cattle therefore contain genetic material that has been inherited from both cattle species (Meyer, 1984). The Afrikaner breed is generally well-adapted to all local cattle-producing areas and can be found in various geographical areas in and around Southern ...
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2014-03-27
extracting the factors the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin ( KMO ) Measure of Sampling Adequacy and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity were conducted. Suitability for...factor extraction is dependent on a KMO index greater than .50 and a Bartlett’s significance of less than .05 (Williams, et al., 2012). The KMO index was
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Small Unit Decision Making (SUDM) Assessment Battery
2014-11-21
above. KMO MSA or Keiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling tests whether it is appropriate to conduct a factor analysis with the sample population. A KMO ...fell on factor one and the factor. Table 7. Summary of Unrotated Factor Analysis for Each Instrument Variable Number of Items KMO MSA Number of
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Modeling the Relationships between Subdimensions of Environmental Literacy
Genc, Murat; Akilli, Mustafa
2016-01-01
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationships between subdimensions of environmental literacy using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The study was conducted by the analysis of students' answers to questionnaires data using SEM. Initially, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's tests were done to test appropriateness of subdimensions to…
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Conical square function estimates in UMD Banach spaces and applications to H?-functional calculi
Hytönen, T.; Van Neerven, J.; Portal, P.
2008-01-01
We study conical square function estimates for Banach-valued functions and introduce a vector-valued analogue of the Coifman-Meyer-Stein tent spaces. Following recent work of Auscher-M(c)Intosh-Russ, the tent spaces in turn are used to construct a scale of vector-valued Hardy spaces associated with
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2012-07-12
J Gastroenterol 2010;16:302 4. 3. Meyer CT, Troncale FJ, Galloway S, Sheahan DG. Arteriovenous malformation of the bowel: an analysis of 22 cases and...Becker GJ, Park HM, O’Connor KW, Tarver RD, Scott JA, Jackson VP, Lappas JC, Broadie TA, Holden RW. Portal hypertension due to jejunal vascular
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Home; Journals; Pramana – Journal of Physics. Md Naimuddin. Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics. Volume 79 Issue 5 November 2012 pp 1255-1258 Poster Presentations. Model unspecific search for new physics in collision at s = 7 TeV · Shivali Malhotra Md Naimuddin Thomas Hebbeker Arnd Meyer ...
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Off the Shelves: Analyzing Style and Intertextuality in "Twilight"
Letcher, Mark, Ed.; Bull, Kelly Byrne
2009-01-01
Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" offers readers romance, mystery, suspense, and action. This young adult novel tells the story of the forbidden relationship between Bella and Edward, exploring complexities that cause readers to consider how love involves sacrifice and choice. "Twilight," a Best Book for Young Adults and Quick-Pick for Reluctant Young…
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Mo Zhou; Joseph Buongiorno; Jingjing Liang
2012-01-01
Besides the market value of timber, forests provide substantial nonmarket benefits, especially with continuous-cover silviculture, which have long been acknowledged by forest managers. They include wildlife habitat (e.g. Bevers and Hof 1999), carbon sequestration (e.g. Dewar and Cannell 1992), biodiversity (e.g. Kangas and Kuusipalo 1993; Austin and Meyers 1999),...
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Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling in Growth of Estrogen-Insensitive Metastatic Bone Lesions
2012-01-01
osteolytic lesion areas. Corresponding 3D micro-CT images (bottom row). n=10 animals per treatment group. (B) Kaplan -meyer survival curve demonstrating...Gilks B, Yorida E, Cheang M, Turbin D, Gelmon K, Huntsman DG. Coexpression of the type 1 growth factor receptor family members HER-1, HER-2, and HER-3
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Ecological genetics of floret mass variation in Bromus tectorum (Poaceae)
Susan E. Meyer
2010-01-01
Bromus tectorum L. (cheatgrass, downy brome) is a highly invasive inbreeding annual grass that dominates millions of hectares of former shrubland in interior western North America. Factors contributing to its success include strong genetic regulation of key adaptive traits coupled with high phenotypic plasticity in response to resource availability (Meyer and Allen...
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China: An Unlikely Economic Hegemon
2014-01-01
Chinese cul- ture favors male offspring, leading to some female infanticide, or more commonly, sex - selective abortions . Therefore, “In about 20 or 25...Crisis.” 71. Ibid. 72. Meyer, China or Japan, 56. 73. Somnath Chatterji et al., “The Health of Aging Populations in China and India ,” Health Affairs 27
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Comparative analysis of the essential oils from normal and hairy ...
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The essential oils were extracted with steam distillation from normal and hairy roots of Panax japonicus C.A. Meyer. The constituents of essential oils were analyzed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The results showed that 40 and 46 kinds of compounds were identified from the essential oils of normal ...
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I grandi della fisica da Platone a Heisenberg
Von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich
2002-01-01
Parmenide ; Platone ; Aristotele ; Copernico, Keplero, Galilei ; Galileo Galilei ; Cartesio ; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; Cartesio, Newton, Leibniz, Kant ; Immanuel Kant ; Johann Wolfgang Goethe ; Robert Meyer ; Albert Einstein ; Niels Bohr ; Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac ; Niels Bohr e Werner Heisenberg, un ricordo del 1932 ; Werner Heisenberg ; Heisenberg, fisico e filosofo ; l'interpretazione filosofica della fisica moderna.
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Mitigation Theme Report: Energy Efficiency : Contribution to the MCA4climate initiative
de Visser, Erika; Blok, K.|info:eu-repo/dai/nl/07170275X
2011-01-01
Striving for energy efficiency means trying to obtain a certain result with a minimum of input (Schipper and Meyers, 1992; Blok, 2007). As energy is used to fulfil human needs, one may define the energy efficiency of an activity as the degree to which given human needs can be fulfilled with a
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Organisational commitment levels of faculty members in sport ...
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This study aimed to reveal the organisational commitment levels of faculty members to teaching at higher education institutions in Turkey. To be able to obtain participants' views, the organisational commitment scale developed by Allen and Meyer in 1990 was used and data was analysed by means of the SPSS 17.0 ...
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Jonathan Bossenbroek; Audra Croskey; David Finnoff; Louis Iverson; Shana M. McDermott; Anantha Prasad; Charles Sims; Davis. Sydnor
2015-01-01
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis; EAB) is poised to wipe out native ashes (Fraxinus spp.) in North America with expected catastrophic losses to ash tree forestry (MacFarlane and Meyer 2005). EAB was first discovered in Detroit in 2002. Most scientists hypothesize that it entered the United States through solid wood...
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Home Culture, Science, School and Science Learning: Is Reconciliation Possible?
Tan, Aik-Ling
2011-01-01
In response to Meyer and Crawford's article on how nature of science and authentic science inquiry strategies can be used to support the learning of science for underrepresented students, I explore the possibly of reconciliation between the cultures of school, science, school science as well as home. Such reconciliation is only possible when…
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2012-03-01
with a fixed number of factors to be extracted (2), and coefficient values below .4 suppressed. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin ( KMO ) measure verified the...sampling adequacy of the analysis: KMO for Time 1 = .85, with all KMO values for individual items > .7; KMO for Time 2 = .76, with all KMO values for
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Book Review: Public Administration Dictionary | Marais | Lexikos
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Book Title: Public Administration Dictionary. Book Author: William Fox & Ivan H. Meyer. 1995. viii + 139 pp. ISBN 0 70213219 5. Juta. Full Text: EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT · AJOL African Journals Online. HOW TO USE AJOL... for Researchers · for ...
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1981-04-01
a part of the noncohesive group. Scour or transport and deposition become a function of the properties of these separate particles. Fortier and Scoby ...and F. C. Scoby , 1926. Permissable canal velocities. Trans. ASCE, Vol. 89. 12. Foster, G. R., L. D. Meyer and C. A. Onstad. 1977. A runoff erosi- vity
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Journal of Chemical Sciences | Indian Academy of Sciences
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S Bhattacharya1 A Kirwai1 Aditya N Panda1 2 H-D Meyer3. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati 781 039, India; Department of Chemistry, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France; Theoretische Chemie, Universität Heidelberg, ...
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Efficacy of motor imagery in post-stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review
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Puhan Milo A
2008-03-01
Full Text Available Abstract Background Evaluation of how Motor Imagery and conventional therapy (physiotherapy or occupational therapy compare to conventional therapy only in their effects on clinically relevant outcomes during rehabilitation of persons with stroke. Design Systematic review of the literature Methods We conducted an electronic database search in seven databases in August 2005 and also hand-searched the bibliographies of studies that we selected for the review. Two reviewers independently screened and selected all randomized controlled trials that compare the effects of conventional therapy plus Motor Imagery to those of only conventional therapy on stroke patients. The outcome measurements were: Fugl-Meyer Stroke Assessment upper extremity score (66 points and Action Research Arm Test upper extremity score (57 points. Due to the high variability in the outcomes, we could not pool the data statistically. Results We identified four randomized controlled trials from Asia and North America. The quality of the included studies was poor to moderate. Two different Motor imagery techniques were used (three studies used audiotapes and one study had occupational therapists apply the intervention. Two studies found significant effects of Motor Imagery in the Fugl-Meyer Stroke Assessment: Differences between groups amounted to 11.0 (1.0 to 21.0 and 3.2 (-4 to 10.3 respectively and in the Action Research Arm Test 6.1 (-6.2 to 18.4 and 15.8 (0.5 to 31.0 respectively. One study did not find a significant effect in the Fugl-Meyer Stroke Assessment and Color trail Test (p = 0.28 but in the task-related outcomes (p > 0.001. Conclusion Current evidence suggests that Motor imagery provides additional benefits to conventional physiotherapy or occupational therapy. However, larger and methodologically sounder studies should be conducted to assess the benefits of Motor imagery.
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Bootstrapping Cox’s Regression Model.
1985-11-01
crucial points a multivariate martingale central limit theorem. Involved in this is a p x p covariance matrix Z with elements T j2= f {2(s8 ) - s(l)( s ,8o...1980). The statistical analaysis of failure time data. Wiley, New York. Meyer, P.-A. (1971). Square integrable martingales, a survey. Lecture Notes
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Microhardness studies on nonlinear optical L-alanine single crystals
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
evaporation technique over a load range of 10–50 g on selected broad (2 0 3) plane. Vickers (Hv) ... Meyer's index number (n) calculated from Hv shows that the material belongs to the soft material .... where Hk is Knoop microhardness value at a particular load, ... Chenthamarai S, Jayaraman D, Ushasree P M, Meera K,.
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[Heinz von zur Mühlen. Auf den Spuren einiger revlaer Firmen und Familien] / Paul Kaegbein
Kaegbein, Paul
2007-01-01
Arvustus: Heinz von zur Mühlen. Auf den Spuren einiger revlaer Firmen und Familien. In : Buch und Bildung im Baltikum. Münster : LIT, 2005, lk. 527-541. Pika tänava majade omanikest alates 17. sajandist - perekonnad Koch, Meyer, Kluge, Ströhm, Wassermann, Glehn, Eggers, Koppelson, Weiss. Nii loob autor pildi Tallinna "firmade ajaloost"
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Smoking status, knowledge of health effects and attitudes towards ...
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of health effects and attitudes towards tobacco control in South Africa. Priscilla Reddy, Anna Meyer-Weitz, Derek Yach. Objective. To provide data on the South African ..... Printed media. 33. 49. 43. Not be banned. 32. 10. 17. Most of the respondents (61 %) supported a total ban of tobacco advertising on radio. Only 17% of ...
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south africa: the arduous task of facing our religious past
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a Calvinist-born nation (Meyer 1940:27).3 This leads to conflict, anxiety and insecurity ... As anxiety levels were pushed past reasonable limits by the 'out in the cold' ... groups, especially whites, were ignorant of the key ANC policy documents and .... concentrating on what separates us, but on what we share, it should be.
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Water SA - Vol 29, No 3 (2003)
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The effectiveness of a magnetic physical water treatment device on scaling in domestic hot-water storage tanks · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. C Smith, PP Coetzee, JP Meyer, 231-236. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v29i3.4921 ...
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Did Adolf Hitler have syphilis? Abstract PDF · Vol 44, No 2 (2007) - Articles Die problematisering van die etiese: Deon Meyer se Infanta as hardboiled misdaadroman. Abstract PDF · Vol 23, No 1 (2009) - Articles Book Review: O.J.O. Ferreira, Da Costa Leal in die Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek: die sekretaris van 'n Portugese ...
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Symptomatic HIV infection in infancy - clinical and laboratory ...
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in infancy - clinical and laboratory markers of infection. M P Meyer, Z Latief, C Haworlh, 5 Salie,. A van Dyk. Objective. To investigate the usefulness of immunological tests in the diagnosis of HIV infection in young symptomatic children « 15 months of age). Design. Tests were evaluated in HIV-infected (HIV antibody- and ...
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Gender, Bullying, and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools
Meyer, Elizabeth J.
2009-01-01
While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviors. In her new book, Meyer does just that and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered…
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Mario Tolentino
1997-02-01
Full Text Available A history of the periodic table of the elements is presented, from the first tentative classifications, passing through Meyer and Mendeleev, up to recent speculations on super-heavy elements still to be synthesized. Many of the discussions and discoveries related to chemical elements and their proper periodic classification are also presented.
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Contributions to the history of botany and exploration in Malaysia. 8—9
Steenis-Kruseman, van M.J.
1962-01-01
When Dr. F. G. Meyer, in a letter to Dr. Ding Hou, inquired after biographical particulars of “Heinrich Bürger”, the name of this naturalist meant nothing to me. This is not astonishing, as nearly all of his activities took place in Japan, a country outside our range of study. It took Dr. van
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Curiosity analyzes Martian soil samples
Showstack, Randy; Balcerak, Ernie
2012-12-01
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted its first analysis of Martian soil samples using multiple instruments, the agency announced at a 3 December news briefing at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. "These results are an unprecedented look at the chemical diversity in the area," said NASA's Michael Meyer, program scientist for Curiosity.
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Theoretical galactic cosmic ray electron spectrum obtained for sources of varying geometry
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Cohen, M.E.
1969-01-01
Jokipii and Meyer have recently obtained an electron density energy spectrum of the cosmic rays, originating in the Galaxy, using integral solutions of the steady state transfer equations, by considering a circular cylindric galactic disc as source and approximating the resulting fourth order integral. In this report, we present general results, obtained by using an arbitrary circular cylindric source, without restricting ourselves to the galactic disc. The integrals are treated exactly. The conclusions of Jokipii and Meyer form special cases of these results. We also obtain an exponential energy variation which, at the moment, is not observed experimentally. The second part of this work deals with more complicated, but perhaps more realistic models of elliptic cylindric and ellipsoidal galactic disc sources. One may also note that a very large source concentrated in a very small region gives a spectrum not unlike that for a small source distributed throughout a large volume. Finally, it may be remarked that the model adopted is much less restrictive than the artificial conception of 'leakage time' followed by other workers. (author) [fr
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González, Emilio J.; Calvar, Noelia; Macedo, Eugénia A.
2014-01-01
Highlights: • Physical and osmotic properties of [HMim][TfO] in alcohols are reported. • Apparent molar properties and osmotic coefficients were obtained. • Apparent molar volumes were fitted using a Redlich–Meyer type equation. • The osmotic coefficients were modeled with the Extended Pitzer and the MNRTL models. -- Abstract: In this work, density for the binary mixtures of 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate in alcohols (1-propanol, or 2-propanol, or 1-butanol, or 2-butanol, or 1-pentanol) was measured at T = 323.15 K and atmospheric pressure. From this property, the corresponding apparent molar volumes were calculated and fitted to a Redlich–Meyer type equation. For these mixtures, the osmotic and activity coefficients, and vapor pressures of these binary systems were also determined at the same temperature using the vapor pressure osmometry technique. The experimental osmotic coefficients were modeled by the Extended Pitzer model of Archer. The parameters obtained in this correlation were used to calculate the mean molal activity coefficients and the excess Gibbs free energy for the studied mixtures
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The dimensionality of professional commitment
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Jeffrey J. Bagraim
2003-10-01
Full Text Available This paper examines the dimensionality of professional commitment amongst a sample of 240 South African actuaries. Data were obtained, via a mailed questionnaire, from members of the South African Actuarial Society employed in the financial services industry. Statistical analysis conducted on the data showed that the 3-component model first proposed by Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993 is appropriate for understanding professional commitment amongst South African professionals. The analysis also showed that South African actuaries are highly committed to their profession. Opsomming Hierdie artikel ondersoek die dimensionaliteit van professionele toewyding by ‘n steekproef van 240 Suid-Afrikaanse aktuarisse. Die data is verkry deur ‘n posvraelys aan lede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Aktuariële Vereniging wat in die finansiële dienstesektor werksaam was. Statistiese ontledings wat uitgevoer is op die data dui aan dat die driekomponentmodel, aanvanklik voorgestel deur Meyer, Allen en Smith (1993, geskik is om professionele toewyding by Suid-Afrikaanse beroepslui te verstaan. Die ontleding dui verder aan dat Suid-Afrikaanse aktuarisse hoogs toegewyd is aan hulle professie.
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Game-based, portable, upper extremity rehabilitation in chronic stroke.
Schuck, Sarah O; Whetstone, Amy; Hill, Valerie; Levine, Peter; Page, Stephen J
2011-01-01
This case series pilot study evaluates the efficacy of the Core:Tx gaming device on 2 chronic stroke survivors. Intervention was provided 3 times a week for 3 weeks. Outcome measures, administered 1 week before and 1 week after intervention, included the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Motor Recovery (Fugl-Meyer [FM]), and the Box and Block Test (BB). Participant A exhibited an 11-point increase on the SIS, a 1.2-point change on each of the performance and satisfaction scores of the COPM, a 1-point increase on the FM, and no change on the BB. Participant B exhibited a 3-point increase on the SIS and no change on the COPM, FM, or BB. The participants experienced increased quality of life, a greater propensity to use their affected arm, and enhanced task performance without exhibiting motor changes. Additionally, the Core:Tx gaming device was reported by the participants to be a motivating modality in the therapy setting.
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A scale value for the balance between stage and pit and inside an historical opera house
Prodi, Nicola; Velecka, Sylvia
2004-05-01
Despite its recognized importance, the balance between the singer and the orchestra inside an opera house has received minor attention in the past. In fact, after the fundamental work of Meyer [J. Meyer, ``Some problems of opera house acoustics,'' Proceedings of 12th I.C.A., Vancouver, 1986, pp. 13-18], who explained why the solo singing voice can compete with the orchestra, only partial results were reported on this perceived attribute. In this work a reference scale to assess the balance inside an historical opera house is achieved by means of listening tests inside a controlled room. Two scaling experiments were performed based on the acoustical data measured inside an historical opera house, the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Italy. By doing so all of the relevant acoustical characteristics of a typical Italian-style opera house could be exactly reproduced. Acceptable values do not differ much in the stalls and in the boxes and are within 2 dB(A) to +2.3 dB(A). The transfer of the findings to other types of opera houses is discussed, too.
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Caramazza, Alfonso; Bi, Yanchao; Costa, Albert; Miozzo, Michelle
2004-01-01
A. Caramazza, A. Costa, M. Miozzo, and Y. Bi (2001) reported a series of experiments showing that naming latencies for homophones are determined by specific-word frequency (e.g., frequency of nun) and not homophone frequency (frequency of nun + none). J. D. Jescheniak, A. S. Meyer, and W. J. M. Levelt (2003) have challenged these studies on a…
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Port of Charleston, South Carolina, After Action Report
2003-04-21
Risk Factors Risks Mitigations Scope Port area • Seaward to Seabuoy • Cooper River • to Nucore Steel • 25 feet depth • Wando River • To Denton...move out of the way 2. Up the Cooper River…3-4 kts current; off turn toward NuCore Steel, 3. Meyers Bend at Drum Island for Deep Draft...large turn
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2015-05-19
S. Mathaudhu (ARO) M. Meyers (UCSD) A. Misra (LANL) F. Mohamed (UC Irvine) KL Murty (NCSU) Q. Wei (UNC, Charlotte) D. Kumar ( NCA &T) R...greater than that for pure Ag NPs. Ag-Co NPs show a life-time of nearly an order of magnitude higher than pure Ag NPs due to cathodic protection of Ag
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Maximilien Brice
2006-01-01
From left to right Mr Georg Jürgens, Counsellor at the German Mission in Geneva; MdB Klaus Hagemann, SPD; MdB Cornelia Pieper, FDP, Stellvertretende Ausschussvorsitzende, Delegationsleiterin; MdB Dr. Petra Sitte, DIE LINKE; MdB Ilse Aigner, CDU/CSU; MdB Carsten Müller, CDU/CSU; Mr Andreas Meyer, Leiter Ausschusssekretariat; MdB Jörg Tauss, SPD.
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2008. aasta menukaimad / Udo Uibo
Uibo, Udo, 1956-
2009-01-01
2008. aasta raamatumüügi tulemustest, mulluste menukamate kirjanike nimestikust, mis põhineb USA, Suurbritannia, Prantsusmaa, Saksamaa, Itaalia, Hollandi, Hiina, Hispaania ja Rootsi igakuistel ilukirjanduslike bestsellerite edetabelitel. Esikümnesse kuuluvad: Khaled Hossein, Stieg Larsson, Ken Follett, Stephenie Meyer, Muriel Barbery, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Anna Gavalda, John Grisham, J. K. Rowling, Henning Mankell
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Henderson, Nancy
2010-01-01
A take-charge "people person," Kurt Kondrich began his career in law enforcement in 1985, when he graduated with a criminology degree and landed a job with the Atlanta Police Department. Six years later, he became deputy sheriff in Fort Meyers, Florida, but missed his family in Pittsburgh. So in 1993, when he heard that his hometown police…
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Page 1. ajor flaws ion of the from the nificance. ubstantial enefit was a finding. hy' to talk ess'. He is. Erratum. In the article 'Furosemide chronopharmacology' by B. H. Meyer er al., which appeared in the SAMJ of 18 December 1982, the histograms for Figs 8 and 9 on p. 977 should ha\\'e been transposed.
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An Analysis of Construction Contractor Performance Evaluation System
2009-03-01
65 8. Summary of Determinant and KMO Values for Finalized...principle component analysis output is the KMO and Bartlett‘s Test. KMO or Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy is used to identify if a...set of variables, when factored together, yield distinct and reliable factors (Field, 2005). KMO statistics vary between values of 0 to 1. Kaiser
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75 FR 59327 - Qualification of Drivers; Exemption Applications; Vision
2010-09-27
... exemption for a renewable two-year period. They are: Paul G. Albrecht Elijah A. Allen, Jr. David W. Brown.... Kildow Daniel A. McNabb David G. Meyers Thomas L. Oglesby Michael J. Paul Russell A. Payne Rodney M. Pegg Raymond E. Peterson Zbigniew P. Pietranik John C. Rodriguez Terrance L. Trautman Charles E. Wood Joseph F...
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Tulevikuideed pärinevad loodusest / Katrin Kurss
Kurss, Katrin
2010-01-01
KUMU kunstimuuseumi auditooriumis 14. jaanuaril 2010 toimunud Eesti Kulinaaria Instituudi poolt korraldatud I rahvusvaheline Eesti köögi arendamisele pühendatud Food For Future / Tulevikutoidu konverentsist, kus esinesid ettekannetega toidumaailma uuendajad Albert Adriá, Fergus Henderson, Põhjala köögi liikumise üks algataja Claus Meyer ning reklaamibüroo Division loovjuht Rain Pikand
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Despite being known as the Wild Coast, owing to its rough seas and ...
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spamer
Despite being known as the Wild Coast, owing to its rough seas and ...... prognosis for the skiboat fishery is not good. Com- ... from the Margate/Port Edward area, as well as Messrs. G. Meyers from ... FIELDING, P. J., ROBERTSON, W. D., DYE, A. H., TOMALIN, ... HARRISON, T. D., COOPER, J. A. G. and A. E. L. RAMM 2000.
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2010-11-01
Carnegie Mellon University) Mike Byrne (Rice University) Christian Lebiere (Carnegie Mellon University) Scott Douglass (711th HPW/RHAC) David Meyer...coordinated performance. 51 Distribution A: Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 19. Stevens, R., Galloway , T., Berka, C., & Behneman... Galloway , T., Berka, C., & Sprang, M. (2009) Can neurophysiologic synchronies provide a platform for adapting team performance? Lecture Notes in
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Genetics Home Reference: Jackson-Weiss syndrome
... Jabs EW, Li X, Scott AF, Meyers G, Chen W, Eccles M, Mao JI, Charnas LR, Jackson CE, Jaye M. Jackson-Weiss and Crouzon syndromes are allelic with mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2. Nat Genet. 1994 Nov;8(3):275-9. Erratum in: Nat Genet 1995 Apr;9(4):451. Citation on PubMed Robin ...
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Nanoscale processes on insulating surfaces
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Gnecco, Enrico; Szymoński, Marek
2009-01-01
... the group of Prof. Ernst Meyer in Basel, where he investigated friction processes on alkali halide surfaces in ultra high vacuum (UHV). The main result was the observation of a logarithmic velocity dependence of atomic friction, which was interpreted within a combination of the classical Tomlinson and Eyring models. After his Ph.D. he joined the ...
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ONRASIA Scientific Information Bulletin. Volume 17, Number 4, October-December 1992
1992-12-01
Singapore will soon etc.) but enabling technologies. We join Japan as the only Asian have to bear in mind that new Dr. Scow Boon Quek countries with...Thomas F. 3-237 Donoghue, Michael 1-137 Lu, Stephen 4-063 Flynn, Anita 2-099 Meyer, Robert A. 3-173 Fujii, Kozo 4-099 Moffett, Jonathan D. 1-061 Gibor
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Cohen, M E [Commissariat a l' Energie Atomique, Saclay (France). Centre d' Etudes Nucleaires
1969-07-01
Jokipii and Meyer have recently obtained an electron density energy spectrum of the cosmic rays, originating in the Galaxy, using integral solutions of the steady state transfer equations, by considering a circular cylindric galactic disc as source and approximating the resulting fourth order integral. In this report, we present general results, obtained by using an arbitrary circular cylindric source, without restricting ourselves to the galactic disc. The integrals are treated exactly. The conclusions of Jokipii and Meyer form special cases of these results. We also obtain an exponential energy variation which, at the moment, is not observed experimentally. The second part of this work deals with more complicated, but perhaps more realistic models of elliptic cylindric and ellipsoidal galactic disc sources. One may also note that a very large source concentrated in a very small region gives a spectrum not unlike that for a small source distributed throughout a large volume. Finally, it may be remarked that the model adopted is much less restrictive than the artificial conception of 'leakage time' followed by other workers. (author) [French] Jokipii et Meyer ont dernierement obtenu un spectre d'energie pour les electrons galactiques dans le rayonnement cosmique, en utilisant les solutions des equations de transfert, a l'etat stationnaire, ces dernieres etant sous forme d'integrales, en prenant une source completement diffusee dans le disque galactique, celui-ci etant hypothetiquement choisi comme circulaire et cylindrique et en faisant une approximation sur l'integrale du quatrieme degre. Dans ce rapport, nous presentons des resultats generaux obtenus en faisant appel a une source, diffusee dans un cylindre circulaire, arbitrairement choisi, c'est-a-dire sans nous restreindre au disque galactique comme source. Les integrales sont traitees d'une maniere exacte. Les conclusions de Jokipii et Meyer constituent des cas speciaux des resultats precedents. Nous obtenons
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Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (English)
Jinjing Liu; Fengsheng Li; Guihua Liu
2006-01-01
position, bed exercise, bedside sit up and sitting position balance, sit up exercise, dynamic and static balance exercise, walking exercise, active training and passive training. The strength, time and speed of training were increased gradually according to their physical abilities. Patients were trained 45 to 60 minutes once, 5 times a week, within 2 weeks. ② Evaluation criteria of therapeutic effect: The motor function of upper extremity was evaluated by FugI-Meyer method on the day of beginning and end of treatment. Higher points indicated better function of upper extremity. ③ t test and paired t test were used for comparing the difference of intergroup and intragroup measurement data, respectively.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Changes in Fugl-Meyer scoring of two groups before and after treatment.RESULTS: Totally 120 stroke patients participated in the final analysis. Before treatment, Fugl-Meyer scoring was close between rehabilitation group and control group [(14.47±2.38),(14.16±2.39) points, P＞ 0.05];Fugl-Meyer scoring of rehabilitation group after treatment was significantly higher than that before treatment and that of control group [(37.93±2.67),(18.36±2.43) points, t=11.053, 5.408, P＜ 0.01]; There were no significant differences in FugI-Meyer scoring between before treatment in the control group and control group (P＞ 0.05).CONCLUSION: Combined application of motor relearning program and Bobath method can significantly improve the motor function of upper extremity of patients with stroke.
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African Journals Online (AJOL)
Items 201 - 250 of 327 ... Issue, Title. Vol 10, No 4 (2016), Omphalocoeles: A decade in review, Abstract PDF. S Singh, A Madaree. Vol 2, No 4 (2008), Ortner syndrome, Abstract PDF. E Meyer, NE Jones, LJ Zühlke. Vol 10, No 3 (2016), Outcome of children admitted to a general highcare unit in a regional hospital in the ...
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Dyadic Aspects of Sexual Well-Being in Men with Laser-Treated Penile Carcinoma
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Elisabet Skeppner, PhD
2015-06-01
Conclusion: A high level of within-couple agreement concerning sexuality and life satisfaction points to the necessity of including an adequate sexological case history, counseling, and treatment for this group of patients and their partners. Skeppner E and Fugl-Meyer K. Dyadic aspects of sexual well-being in men with laser-treated penile carcinoma. Sex Med 2015;3:67–75.
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Introduction to compressible fluid flow
Oosthuizen, Patrick H
2013-01-01
IntroductionThe Equations of Steady One-Dimensional Compressible FlowSome Fundamental Aspects of Compressible FlowOne-Dimensional Isentropic FlowNormal Shock WavesOblique Shock WavesExpansion Waves - Prandtl-Meyer FlowVariable Area FlowsAdiabatic Flow with FrictionFlow with Heat TransferLinearized Analysis of Two-Dimensional Compressible FlowsHypersonic and High-Temperature FlowsHigh-Temperature Gas EffectsLow-Density FlowsBibliographyAppendices
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The Antistreptolysin Titre Diagnostic Index (ASO Titre) Hepatitis as a
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N. GITLIN, M.B., CH.B., M.R.C.P, (LOND.), M.R.C.P. (EDlN.) AA'D 1. R. DOWDESWELL, M.B., CH.B.,. Liver Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital and Department of Medicine and Liver Research Group, University of Cape Town, O. L. MEYERS, M.B., CH.B., F.C.P. (S.A.), Immunology Laboratory, Department of Medi- cine, University ...
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African Journals Online (AJOL)
Vol 18, No 3 (1988), Language in military service, Abstract PDF. J.H. Picard. Vol 42, No 1 (2014), Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War, Abstract PDF. DT Tram. Vol 12, No 2 (1982), Leiers deur die jare (1912-1982), Abstract PDF. CJ Nothling, EM Meyers. Vol 6, No 3 (1976) ...
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A Scale for Students' Attitude Towards The Teaching Profession
Semerci, Çetin
1999-01-01
The main purpose of this study is to develop a scale for students’ attitude towards the teaching profession the Colleges of Technical and Vocational Education . The scale was applied to 719 students. In the scale, there are 30 items. The KMO(Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) value is 0.88, Bartlett test value is 8980.25 and Cronbach alpha mean is 0.68.
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Commutators of integral operators with variable kernels on Hardy ...
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
[8] Coifman R R, Lions P L, Meyer Y and Semmes S, Compensated compactness and Hardy spaces, J. Math. Pure Appl. 72(3) (1993) 247–286. [9] Coifman R R, Rochberg R and Weiss G, Factorization theorems for Hardy spaces in several variable, Ann. Math. 103 (1976) 611–635. [10] Ding Y, Weak type bounds for a class ...
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DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
2017-01-01
'Hygge' is a concept that has generated much interest as a way of conceptualising 'Nordic living', e.g. in books on hygge or scented candles. In this Nordic Branding reflections podcast we are having a 'hyggelig' session with ph.d. Jeppe Trolle Linnet, reflecting on this concept and related 'Nord......' values. We met at Meyers Deli and The Laundromat Cafe (Copenhagen)....
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Chrysothamnus Nutt.: rabbitbrush
Susan E. Meyer
2008-01-01
Members of the rabbitbrush genus - Chrysothamnus spp. - are among the best-known of western shrubs (Johnson 1987; McArthur and Welch 1986; McArthur and others 2004, 1979). The genus is endemic to western North America and is made up of 16 species (Anderson 1986; McArthur and Meyer 1987). It has recently been partially subsumed under the new genus Ericameria, formerly...
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The Architect as Producer : Hannes Meyer and the Proletarianisation of the Western Architect
Djalali, A.
2015-01-01
With the foundation of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius advocated an end to the division between arts and crafts. Contrary to the idea of architecture as art, the programme of the school aimed to assimilate architecture with industry in order to satisfy collective social needs. Yet, despite this
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Alfven, Hugo. Die drei Schwedischen Rhapsodien op. 19, 24 und 47 / Andreas Meyer
Meyer, Andreas
1995-01-01
Uuest heliplaadist "Alfven, Hugo. Die drei Schwedischen Rhapsodien op. 19, 24 und 47, En skärgardssägen op. 20, Suite aus Der Berkönig. Königliche Stockholmer Philharmoniker, Neeme Järvi". AD: 1987-1992. BIS?Disco-Center CD 725 (WD: 77'00")
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Saponin production in root cultures of .I.Panax ginseng./I. C. A. Meyer
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Langhansová, Lenka; Maršík, Petr; Vaněk, Tomáš
2002-01-01
Roč. 2, Supl. 1 (2002), s. 333 ISSN 1576-0952. [Annual Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research /50./. 08.09.2002-12.09.2002, Barcelona] R&D Projects: GA ČR GP521/02/P064; GA MŠk OC 843.10 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4055905 Keywords : saponin Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics
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W. Horsley Gantt, Nick, and the Pavlovian Science at Phipps Clinic.
Ruiz, Gabriel; Sánchez, Natividad
2016-10-24
William Horsley Gantt is well known as one to the principal proponents of Pavlovian methodology in the U.S. After a long stay at Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's laboratory in Leningrad from 1925 to 1929, Gantt was invited by Adolf Meyer to join the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, where he founded and directed the Pavlovian Laboratory from 1930 to 1964. Soon after his arrival at Phipps Clinic in 1931, Gantt began a Pavlovian research program that included the investigation of nervous disturbances in dogs and clinical researches with psychiatric patients. In these studies, Gantt combined a physiological method (the conditional reflexes approach), with a psychiatric problem (nervous disorders) in the context of Meyer's psychobiology that established the person or individual as unit of analysis. This fact, concentrating upon a single individual, made Gantt studies with dogs recognizable and interesting to physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists who also worked on individuals. In this paper, we use archival materials -including correspondence, notebooks, and unpublished autobiographical material- to present a case study, that of William Horsley Gantt and his dog Nick. We will explore the reasons why Gantt' studies on nervous disturbances with this dog captured the interest of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.
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Reed, Kathlyn L
2005-01-01
Herbert James Hall, MD (1870-1923), was a pioneer in the systematic and organized study of occupation as therapy for persons with nervous and mental disorders that he called the "work cure." He began his work in 1904 during the early years of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. His primary interest was the disorder neurasthenia, a condition with many symptoms including chronic fatigue, stress, and inability to work or perform everyday tasks. The prevailing treatment of the day was absolute bed rest known as the "rest cure." Hall believed that neurasthenia was not caused by overwork but by faulty living habits that could be corrected through an ordered life schedule and selected occupations. He identified several principles of therapy that are still used today including graded activity and energy conservation. Dr. Adolph Meyer credits Hall for organizing the ideas on the therapeutic use of occupation (Meyer, 1922). Hall also provided the name American Occupational Therapy Association for the professional organization and served as the fourth president. For his many contributions to the profession Hall deserves to be recognized as a major contributor to the development and organization of occupational therapy.
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Godfrey, Sasha Blue; Holley, Rahsaan J; Lum, Peter S
2013-11-01
The goals of this pilot study were to quantify the clinical benefits of using the Hand Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot for hand rehabilitation after stroke and to determine the population best served by this intervention. Nine subjects with chronic stroke (one excluded from analysis) completed 18 sessions of training with the Hand Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot and a preevaluation, a postevaluation, and a 90-day clinical evaluation. Overall, the subjects improved in both range of motion and clinical measures. Compared with the preevaluation, the subjects showed significant improvements in range of motion, grip strength, and the hand component of the Fugl-Meyer (mean changes, 6.60 degrees, 8.84 percentage points, and 1.86 points, respectively). A subgroup of six subjects exhibited lower tone and received a higher dosage of training. These subjects had significant gains in grip strength, the hand component of the Fugl-Meyer, and the Action Research Arm Test (mean changes, 8.42 percentage points, 2.17 points, and 2.33 points, respectively). Future work is needed to better manage higher levels of hypertonia and provide more support to subjects with higher impairment levels; however, the current results support further study into the Hand Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot treatment.
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Molecular diagnosis of infectious hematopoietic necrosis and viral hemorrhagic septicemia
Winton, James R.; Einer-Jensen, Katja
2002-01-01
The fish rhabdoviruses, infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV) and viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), cause extensive losses among salmon and trout in several areas of the world (Bootland and Leong, 1999; Smail, 1999; Wolf, 1988). Historically, IHNV was endemic among wild anadromous salmonids in the western portion of North America, but the virus has spread to stocks of cultured rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the United States, Asia and Western Europe, probably as a result of the movement of infected fish or eggs (Winton, 1991). Prior to 1989, VHSV was thought to be largely restricted to freshwater fishes in Western Europe (Wolf, 1988); however, in the last decade, VHSV has been isolated from an increasing number of free-living marine fish species in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans (Dixon et al., 1997; Dixon, 1999; Kent et al., 1998; Meyers and Winton, 1995; Meyers et al., 1999; Mortensen et al., 1999; Smail; 2000, Takano et al., 2000). These findings have lead to the conclusion that both viruses are principally endemic among marine or anadromous fish species, but have established themselves in freshwater among cultured salmonids where their effects are most frequently observed.
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Drug Resistance and the Kinetics of Metastatic Cancer
Blagoev, Krastan B.
2012-02-01
Most metastatic cancers after initial response to current drug therapies develop resistance to the treatment. We present cancer data and a theory that explains the observed kinetics of tumor growth in cancer patients and using a stochastic model based on this theory we relate the kinetics of tumor growth to Kaplan-Meyer survival curves. The theory points to the tumor growth rate as the most important parameter determining the outcome of a drug treatment. The overall tumor growth or decay rate is a reflection of the balance between cell division, senescence and apoptosis and we propose that the deviation of the decay rate from exponential is a measure of the emergence of drug resistance. In clinical trials the progression free survival, the overall survival, and the shape of the Kaplan-Meyer plots are determined by the tumor growth rate probability distribution among the patients in the trial. How drug treatments modify this distribution will also be described. At the end of the talk we will discuss the connection between the theory described here and the age related cancer mortality rates in the United States.
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Calvar, Noelia; González, Emilio J.; Domínguez, Ángeles; Macedo, Eugénia A.
2012-01-01
Highlights: ► Physical and osmotic properties of binary mixtures {alcohol + [BMim][dca]} were measured. ► From experimental data, apparent molar properties and osmotic coefficients were calculated. ► The apparent properties were fitted using a Redlich–Meyer type equation. ► The osmotic coefficients were correlated using the Extended Pitzer and the MNRTL models. - Abstract: In this paper, densities and speeds of sound for five binary systems {alcohol + 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide} were measured from T = (293.15 to 323.15) K and atmospheric pressure. From these experimental data, apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression have been calculated and fitted to a Redlich–Meyer type equation. This fit was also used to calculate the apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression at infinite dilution for the studied binary mixtures. Moreover, the osmotic and activity coefficients and vapor pressures of these binary mixtures were also determined at T = 323.15 K using the vapor pressure osmometry technique. The experimental osmotic coefficients were correlated using the Extended Pitzer model of Archer. The mean molal activity coefficients and the excess Gibbs free energy for the studied mixtures were calculated from the parameters obtained in the correlation.
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Hospitality Management: Learning, Doing, Knowing
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Christopher Muller
2016-01-01
Full Text Available Is there something distinct about the traditional Hospitality Management curriculum? First offered in 1893 at the Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne in Switzerland and launched in the United States at The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1922, has this course of study evolved over time to focus on both of Meyer's skills - originally based on technical skills but now transforming to emotional skills?
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Hospitality Management: Learning, Doing, Knowing
Christopher Muller
2016-01-01
Is there something distinct about the traditional Hospitality Management curriculum? First offered in 1893 at the Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne in Switzerland and launched in the United States at The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University in 1922, has this course of study evolved over time to focus on both of Meyer's skills - originally based on technical skills but now transforming to emotional skills?
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Leckie, Stuart M; Harkness, Gavin J; Clarke, Matthew L
2014-10-09
As part of a programme aimed at exploiting lignin as a chemical feedstock for less oxygenated fine chemicals, several catalytic C-C bond forming reactions utilising guaiacol imidazole sulfonate are demonstrated. These include the cross-coupling of a Grignard, a non-toxic cyanide source, a benzoxazole, and nitromethane. A modified Meyers reaction is used to accomplish a second constructive deoxygenation on a benzoxazole functionalised anisole.
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The role of patients' illness representations in coping and functioning with Addison's disease.
Heijmans, M.
1999-01-01
Objective: To examine the relationship between illness representations, coping behaviour and adaptive outcome in patients with Addison's disease (AD). Design: Cross-sectional. Following Leventhal's self-regulation model (Leventhal, Meyer & Nerenz, 1980), it was hypothesized that illness representations are directly associated with coping and, via coping, with adaptive outcome. Method: The illness representations held by 63 patients with a diagnosis of Addison's disease were explored using a q...
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A finite difference method for free boundary problems
Fornberg, Bengt
2010-04-01
Fornberg and Meyer-Spasche proposed some time ago a simple strategy to correct finite difference schemes in the presence of a free boundary that cuts across a Cartesian grid. We show here how this procedure can be combined with a minimax-based optimization procedure to rapidly solve a wide range of elliptic-type free boundary value problems. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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West German Rearmament: From Enemy to Ally in Ten Short Years
1988-01-01
1%5. Foerster, Roland G.; Greiner , Christian; Meyer, Georg; Rautenberg, Hans-Jurgen: and Wiggershaus, Norbert. Anfange estdeuscher Sicherhei4oolink...New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. Noelle, Elisabeth and Neumann, Erich Peter, eds. The Germans: Public Opinion Polls 1947 - 1966. Trans. Gerard...Norton and Company, Incorporated. 1962 Noelle, Elisabeth and Neumann, Erich Peter, eds. labrfuch der OffenBt/ichen MeinunvA 17- 19M Trans. Gerard Finan
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Semerci, Nuriye
2000-01-01
The main purpose of this study is to develop the scale for critical thinking. The Scale of Critical Thinking was applied to 200 student. In this scale, there are total 55 items, four of which are negative and 51 of which are positive. The KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) value is 0.75, the Bartlett test value is 7145.41, and the Cronbach Alpha value is 0.90.
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3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA): current perspectives
Meyer, Jerry
2013-01-01
Jerrold S Meyer Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Abstract: Ecstasy is a widely used recreational drug that usually consists primarily of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). Most ecstasy users consume other substances as well, which complicates the interpretation of research in this field. The positively rated effects of MDMA consumption include euphoria, arousal, enhanced mood, increased sociability, and heighten...
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1976-02-01
S. Agee Optimal DOVAP Instrumentation Planning William S. Agee and Jerry L. Meyer. Proving Programs Correct Elwood D. Baas ...PROGRAMS CORRECT Elwood D. Baas , Army Missile Test and Evaluation Directorate, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico PLASTIC FLOW IN A HOLLOW PRESSURIZED...Isotropic Timoshenko Beam. 3. E. J. BRUNELLE (1970). AIAA Journal, 8, 2271-2273. Elastic Instability of Transversely Isotropic Timoshenko Beams. 4. MAX BECK
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Wilhelm Wundts Nachlass. Eine Übersicht.
Fahrenberg, Jochen
2016-01-01
Wilhelm Wundts Publikationen bilden wahrscheinlich das umfangreichste, zweifellos aber das vielseitigste Werk eines Psychologen. Auch sein wissenschaftlicher Nachlass an Manuskripten, Exzerpten und Korrespondenz hat einen ungewöhnlichen Umfang. Während es an guten Digitalisaten seiner Publikationen noch mangelt, ist der allergrößte Teil des Wundt-Nachlasses seit Ende 2015 dokumentiert und digitalisiert (Meyer, 2015). Die Übersicht hat 12 Abschnitte: (1) Wundts Publikationen, Bibliographie...
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Proceedings of the DICE THROW Symposium 21-23 June 1977. Volume 1
1977-07-01
Engineering Research Facility. 27. BLAST TESTS OF EXPEDIENT SHELTERS IN THE DICE THROW EVENT- C.H. Kearny, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 28...Agency, 1977. 10. Gaffney , E., Close-in Measurements of Airblast and Ground Shock, POR 6909, Defense Nuclear Aqency, 1977. 11. Meyer, J., Crater and...EXPEDIENT SHELTERS FIELDED BY THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY; COMMAND CONTROL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS FIELDED BY THE BALLISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY AND
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Deployment-Related Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in US Military Personnel
2013-01-01
stress disorder ( PTSD ), an anxiety disorder resulting from exposure to a traumatic event, is a frequent psychological...wounded Vietnam veterans. American Journal of Psychiatry 1989;146:667–9. 17. Helzer JE, Robins LN, McEvoy L. Post - traumatic stress disorder in the general...Meyer C. Post - traumatic stress disorder : the role of trauma, pre-existing psychiatric disorders , and gender. European Archives of Psychiatry
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2013-04-01
Corporation. Meyer, G. J., Finn, S. E., Eyde , L. D., Kay, G. G., Moreland, K. L., Dies, R. R.,…Reed, G. M. (2001). Psychological testing and...reduce Naval basic training attrition rates by improving psychological functioning. BOOT STRAP was tested among recruits undergoing a stressful... psychological health problems has been taken in previous research (Wilk et al., 2010 ). Analytic Strategy: Mediation Analyses The indirect effect
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Sherlywati, Sherlywati
2015-01-01
This research was initially exploring the relationship between the Authentic Happiness-The Source of Happines and Organizational Commitment. The concept of Authentic Happiness is derived from the Positive Psychology-Authentic Happiness proposed by Seligman. Meanwhile the concept of organizational commitment is taken from Meyer and Allens Organizational Commitment. The research questions are twofolds. Firstly, whether three sources of happiness are correlated with three dimen...
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Pila, Ophélie; Duret, Christophe; Laborne, François-Xavier; Gracies, Jean-Michel; Bayle, Nicolas; Hutin, Emilie
2017-10-13
When exploring changes in upper limb kinematics and motor impairment associated with motor recovery in subacute post stroke during intensive therapies involving robot-assisted training, it is not known whether trained joints improve before non-trained joints and whether target reaching capacity improves before movement accuracy. Twenty-two subacute stroke patients (mean delay post-stroke at program onset 63 ± 29 days, M2) underwent 50 ± 17 (mean ± SD) 45-min sessions of robot-assisted (InMotion™) shoulder/elbow training over 3 months, in addition to conventional occupational therapy. Monthly evaluations (M2 to M5) included Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FM), with subscores per joint, and four robot-based kinematic measures: mean target distance covered, mean velocity, direction accuracy (inverse of root mean square error from straight line) and movement smoothness (inverse of mean number of zero-crossings in the velocity profile). We assessed delays to reach statistically significant improvement for each outcome measure. At M5, all clinical and kinematic parameters had markedly improved: Fugl-Meyer, +65% (median); distance covered, +87%; mean velocity, +101%; accuracy, +134%; and smoothness, +96%. Delays to reach statistical significance were M3 for the shoulder/elbow Fugl-Meyer subscore (+43%), M4 for the hand (+80%) and M5 for the wrist (+133%) subscores. For kinematic parameters, delays to significant improvements were M3 for distance (+68%), velocity (+65%) and smoothness (+50%), and M5 for accuracy (+134%). An intensive rehabilitation program combining robot-assisted shoulder/elbow training and conventional occupational therapy was associated with improvement in shoulder and elbow movements first, which suggests focal behavior-related brain plasticity. Findings also suggested that recovery of movement quantity related parameters (range of motion, velocity and smoothness) might precede that of movement quality (accuracy). EudraCT 2016-005121-36 . Date of
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Yun, T.-K
2003-03-01
Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer has been the most highly recognized medicinal herb in the Orient. The prolonged administration of red ginseng extract significantly inhibits the incidence of hepatoma and also proliferation of pulmonary tumors induced by aflatoxin B{sub 1} and urethane. Statistically significant anticarcinogenic effects were in aged or heat treated extracts of ginseng and red ginseng made by steaming in a 9 weeks medium-term anticarcinogenicity test using benzo[a]pyrene. In case-control studies, odds ratios (OR) of the cancer of lip, oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, ovary, and colorectum were significantly reduced. As to the type of ginseng, the ORs for cancer were reduced in user of fresh ginseng extract intakers, white ginseng extract, white ginseng powder, and red ginseng. In a cohort study with 5 years follow-up conducted in a ginseng cultivation area, ginseng users had a decreased relative risk (RR) compared with non-users. The relative risks (RRs) of ginseng users were decreased in gastric cancer and lung cancer. These findings strongly suggest that Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer cultivated in Korea has non-organ specific cancer preventive effects against various cancers. To investigate the active components for cancer prevention, several fractions of fresh and red ginseng and four semi-synthetic ginsenoside Rh{sub 1}, Rh{sub 2}, Rg{sub 3} and Rg{sub 5}, the major saponin components in red ginseng, were prepared among the ginsenosides. By using Yun's model, Rg{sub 3} and Rg{sub 5} showed statistically significant reduction of lung tumor incidence and Rh{sub 2} had a tendency to decrease the incidence. In conclusion, these results strongly suggested that Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer cultivated in Korea is a non-organ specific cancer preventive against human cancers and also indicated that the anticarcinogenicity or human cancer preventive effect of Panax ginseng is due to ginsenoside Rg{sub 3}, Rg{sub 5} and Rh
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Chowdhury, F H; Khan, A H
2010-01-01
This is a cadaveric anatomical study on the localization of the optic radiation within the temporal lobe and to find whether surgical intervention to the temporal lobe, especially amygdalohippocampectomy, can damage the optic radiation or not. 11 cadaveric cerebral hemispheres were used for the study. A 2 cm long antero-posterior incision was done with a sharp knife, on middle temporal gyrus, starting 3 cm posterior to temporal pole. The incision was deepened perpendicular to surface of the gyrus to reach the temporal horn. The optic radiation was dissected under operating microscope using Klinger's fiber dissection technique and measurements were taken to define the anterior and lateral extension of optic radiation. The optic radiation in each hemispehere was inspected for any incision related damage. No damage to the optic radiation was found, caused by the 2 cm long anterior-posterior incision on middle temporal gyrus 3 cm posterior to temporal pole. Most anterior 9mm (8-10mm) of the Meyer loop was completely on the roof and there was no extension over lateral wall of the temporal horn. In next posterior 17.5mm (16-20 mm) it extended over lateral wall of temporal horn with gradual progression. The most anterior extension of optic radiation was 26mm (23-31mm) posterior to temporal pole. Amygdalohippocampectomy through a 2 cm long horizontal incision on the middle temporal gyrus, starting 3 cm posterior to the temporal pole, to enter into the temporal horn through the lower aspect of the lateral wall is unlikely to cause damage to the Meyer's loop. Any entry from the superior aspect of the temporal horn and any temporal lobectomy inclusive of the superior temporal gyrus to enter the temporal horn is likely to cause Meyer's loop injury. The findings support the fact that the more inferior the surgical trajectory to the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle, the lover is the risk of visual field damage.
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Delate, Thomas; Meyer, Roxanne; Jenkins, Daniel
2017-08-01
biologic-dosing outlier. Dosing outliers did not appear to have better clinical outcomes compared with nonoutliers. Before initiating outlier biologic dosing, health care providers may better serve their RA patients by prescribing alternate DMARD therapy. This study was sponsored by Janssen Scientific Affairs. It is the policy of Janssen Scientific Affairs to publish all sponsored studies unless they are exploratory studies or are determined a priori for internal use only (e.g., to inform business decisions). Meyer is an employee of Janssen Scientific Affairs and a stockholder in Johnson and Johnson, its parent company. Delate and Jenkins have nothing to disclose. Study concept and design were contributed by Delate and Meyer. Delate took the lead in data collection, along with Jenkins. All authors participated in data analysis. The manuscript was written primarily by Delate, along with Meyers and Jenkins, and was revised by Meyer, along with Delate and Jenkins.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
Lucia Kiyoko Ozaki Yuyama
2008-06-01
Full Text Available O presente estudo teve como objetivo processar frutos de tucumã por desidratação e pulverização e avaliar sua vida-de-prateleira em diferentes tipos de embalagens e temperaturas de armazenagem. A parte comestível do fruto foi desidratada, triturada e passada em tamisador para padronização do diâmetro dos grânulos, embalada em três diferentes tipos de embalagens (plástico polietileno, laminado e lata de aço e armazenada em diferentes temperaturas (4 e 24 °C. Os frutos in natura e desidratados foram analisados quanto a umidade, pH, acidez, açúcares totais e redutores, proteínas, lipídios, cinzas, carboidratos, energia, β-caroteno e equivalente de retinol. O tucumã desidratado e pulverizado foi analisado a cada 30 dias durante 150 dias de armazenagem quanto aos índices de peróxido, de acidez e de iodo e também quanto aos parâmetros microbiológicos. Os constituintes que se destacaram, tanto no fruto in natura quanto no desidratado e pulverizado, foram: lipídios, carboidratos e, conseqüentemente, energia e β-caroteno. Em relação à vida-de-prateleira, todos os tratamentos apresentaram boa estabilidade química e microbiológica durante os 150 dias de armazenamento. Conclui-se que o tucumã desidratado e pulverizado, independente do tipo de embalagem e temperatura de armazenamento, pode ser estocado e consumido por até 150 dias, além de seu potencial nutricional como fonte de energia e β-caroteno.The present study had as objective to process tucuman by dehydration and pulverization and to evaluate its shelf-life in different types of packaging and storage temperatures. The edible part of the fruit was dehydrated, triturated and passed through a sieve to standardize granule diameter, then packed in three different types of packaging (polyethylene plastic film, laminated film, and steel can and stored at different temperatures (4 and 24 °C. The in natura and dehydrated fruits were analyzed for moisture content, pH, acidity, total and reducing sugars, proteins, lipids, ash, carbohydrates, energy, β-carotene and retinol equivalent. The dehydrated and pulverized tucuman was analyzed every 30 days during the 150 days of storage for peroxide, acid and iodine values and microbiological parameters. The constituents that stood out in the in natura fruits as well as in the dehydrated and pulverized fruits were lipids, carbohydrates and, consequently, energy and β-carotene. Regarding shelf-life, all treatments presented good chemical and microbiological stability during the 150 days of storage. It can be concluded that dehydrated and pulverized tucuman, independent of the type of packaging and storage temperature, can be stored and consumed for up to 150 days, allied to the nutritional potential as an energy and β-carotene source.
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Cross-Cultural Competence in Army Leaders: A Conceptual and Empirical Foundation
2007-10-01
Americans may generally lack this skill, which could put U.S. military leaders at a disadvantage when attempting to work against a more collectivist adversary...Matsumoto et al., 2003; 2004); however, some items may be more accurately described as reflecting autonomy . The ICAPS correlates with a variety of adjustment...personal autonomy ) and skill in detecting and decoding verbal and nonverbal cues (perceptual acuity) (Kelley & Meyers, 1995). This measure has been used
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Spring 2008 Industry Study. Privatized Military Operations Industry
2008-01-01
Department of Defense Civilian Lt Col Nathan “ Chili ” Lindsay, United States Air Force COL Darius Lukowski, Polish Army Ms. Diane Meyer, Department...efforts of the USG. Recommendations This Liberia case study demonstrates the benefits and costs of using contractors for the execution of U.S...PMFs and the USG to explore innovative ways to partner such that both parties would benefit by identifying requirements and capabilities in a more
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ZHAW Waedenswil: A new Approach in the Fight against Cancer.
Rimann, Markus
2018-03-30
A happy coincidence brought Dr Markus Rimann from ZHAW Waedenswil together with Dr Andreas Meyer from the start-up FGen and PD Dr Emanuela Felley-Bosco, Molecular Oncologist at Zurich University Hospital, to develop a technology platform for the manufacture and high throughput analysis of single mesothelioma spheroids. Armin Picenoni, former student in Chemistry for the Life Sciences at ZHAW, confirmed everything in writing his Master Thesis on this Innosuisse project.
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2010-11-24
Bras JL: In vitro Activity of pyrimethamine, cycloguanil, and other antimalarial drugs against African isolates and clones of Plasmodium...fact-sheet] 2. Shretta R, Omumbo J, Rapuoda B, Snow RW: Using evidence to change antimalarial drug policy in Kenya. Trop Med Int Health 2000, 5:755...Marks F, Amoah K, Opoku E, Meyer CG, Adjei O, May J: A randomized controlled trial of extended intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment in infants
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Counter Radicalization and Recruitment to Al-Qaeda: Fighting the War of Deeds
2014-06-01
problematic for purely compensatory theories of terrorist behavior , the vast majority does not exhib- it any abnormal psychological or psychosocial...to explode them in contained spaces, like a shopping mall , an airport, or a subway station.” 39. Josh Meyer, “This Man Would Like to Turn Anyone’s...conduct strategic studies that develop policy recommendations on: • Strategy, planning , and policy for joint and combined employment of military forces
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The dimensionality of professional commitment
Jeffrey J. Bagraim
2003-01-01
This paper examines the dimensionality of professional commitment amongst a sample of 240 South African actuaries. Data were obtained, via a mailed questionnaire, from members of the South African Actuarial Society employed in the financial services industry. Statistical analysis conducted on the data showed that the 3-component model first proposed by Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993) is appropriate for understanding professional commitment amongst South African professionals. The analysis also ...
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Effect of motor relearning program poststem cell therapy in chronic stroke
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Jorida Fernandes
2017-01-01
Full Text Available A 59-year-old male, with chronic hemiplegia, received the first dose of stem cell therapy 1 year back. Physiotherapy was started immediately. The patient was evaluated using Fugl-Meyer assessment scale and functional independence measure before and after physiotherapy. After 6 months of physiotherapy intervention using motor relearning program, improvements were observed in the motor outcome with significant changes in the upper extremity, especially the hand component.
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2012-06-01
Adequacy ( KMO ) was measured at .747, as shown in Table 1. A figure of .80 indicates that proceeding with factor analysis is recommended. While the KMO ... KMO and Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity Table The communalities in Table 2 provided by the factor analysis shows that extraction...communalities are all relatively high indicating that the extracted factors represent the four constructs well. KMO and Bartlett’s Test Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin
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Parirokh, Masoud
2016-03-01
Effect of buffered 4% lidocaine on the success of the inferior alveolar nerve block in patients with symptomatic irreversible pulpitis: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study. Schellenberg J, Drum M, Reader A, Nusstein J, Fowler S, Beck M. J Endod 2015;41(6):791-6. The study was supported by Meyers/Reader Graduate Endodontic Support Fund Double blinded randomized controlled trial. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Quantum Strategies: Proposal to Experimentally Test a Quantum Economics Protocol
2009-04-09
protocols can add security to competitive situations; and analyzing the feasibility of running multi-party quantum games over metro-distance optical... games of complete informa- tion. Physics Letters A, 272:291-303, August 2000. [21] D. A. Meyer. Quantum Communication in Games . In S. M. Barnett, E ...feasibility of quantum games , we proposed to implement a proof-of-principle quantum public goods game , and to experimentally demonstrate that the quantum
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Poisson noise removal with pyramidal multi-scale transforms
Woiselle, Arnaud; Starck, Jean-Luc; Fadili, Jalal M.
2013-09-01
In this paper, we introduce a method to stabilize the variance of decimated transforms using one or two variance stabilizing transforms (VST). These VSTs are applied to the 3-D Meyer wavelet pyramidal transform which is the core of the first generation 3D curvelets. This allows us to extend these 3-D curvelets to handle Poisson noise, that we apply to the denoising of a simulated cosmological volume.
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Li, Yongzhan
2013-01-01
Organizational commitment is widely considered in the management and behavioral science literature as a key factor in the relationship between organizations and individuals (Mirza, Redzuan, Hamsan, & Shahrimin, 2012). According to Meyer and Allen (1991), organizational commitment comprises three types of commitment: affective, continuance and normative commitment.As a consequence, organizational commitment has been found to be predicted by quite a few of organizational variables. Of all the i...
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Sang Myung Lee
2015-10-01
Full Text Available It has been reported that Korean Red Ginseng has been manufactured for 1,123 y as described in the GoRyeoDoGyeong record. The Korean Red Ginseng manufactured by the traditional preparation method has its own chemical component characteristics. The ginsenoside content of the red ginseng is shown as Rg1: 3.3 mg/g, Re: 2.0 mg/g, Rb1: 5.8 mg/g, Rc:1.7 mg/g, Rb2: 2.3 mg/g, and Rd: 0.4 mg/g, respectively. It is known that Korean ginseng generally consists of the main root and the lateral or fine roots at a ratio of about 75:25. Therefore, the red ginseng extract is prepared by using this same ratio of the main root and lateral or fine roots and processed by the historical traditional medicine prescription. The red ginseng extract is prepared through a water extraction (90°C for 14–16 h and concentration process (until its final concentration is 70–73 Brix at 50–60°C. The ginsenoside contents of the red ginseng extract are shown as Rg1: 1.3 mg/g, Re: 1.3 mg/g, Rb1: 6.4 mg/g, Rc:2.5 mg/g, Rb2: 2.3 mg/g, and Rd: 0.9 mg/g, respectively. Arginine-fructose-glucose (AFG is a specific amino-sugar that can be produced by chemical reaction of the process when the fresh ginseng is converted to red ginseng. The content of AFG is 1.0–1.5% in red ginseng. Acidic polysaccharide, which has been known as an immune activator, is at levels of 4.5–7.5% in red ginseng. Therefore, we recommended that the chemical profiles of Korean Red Ginseng made through the defined traditional method should be well preserved and it has had its own chemical characteristics since its traditional development.
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E. C. Meyer, General, United States Army, Chief of Staff, June 1979-June 1983
1983-01-01
INTERVIEW WITH MORLEY SAFER, CBS EVENING NEWS CORRESPONDENT 179 15 March Address to the West Point Society of the Monterrey Pennisula Founder’s Day...praisal of individual Service programs divorced Service Chief wearing two hats. While the Joint from Service advocacy of weapons systems. The Staff
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Cytohistological study of the leaf structures of Panax ginseng Meyer and Panax quinquefolius L.
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Ok Ran Lee
2017-10-01
Conclusion: The anatomical leaf structure of both P. ginseng and P. quinquefolius shows that they are typical shade-loving sciophytes. Slight differences in chloroplast structure suggests that the two different species can be authenticated using transmission electron microscopy images, and light-resistant cultivar breeding can be performed via controlling photosynthesis efficiency.
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Numeric kinetic energy operators for molecules in polyspherical coordinates
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Sadri, Keyvan; Meyer, Hans-Dieter; Lauvergnat, David; Gatti, Fabien
2012-01-01
Generalized curvilinear coordinates, as, e.g., polyspherical coordinates, are in general better adapted to the resolution of the nuclear Schrödinger equation than rectilinear ones like the normal mode coordinates. However, analytical expressions of the kinetic energy operators (KEOs) for molecular systems in polyspherical coordinates may be prohibitively complicated for large systems. In this paper we propose a method to generate a KEO numerically and bring it to a form practicable for dynamical calculations. To examine the new method we calculated vibrational spectra and eigenenergies for nitrous acid (HONO) and compare it with results obtained with an exact analytical KEO derived previously [F. Richter, P. Rosmus, F. Gatti, and H.-D. Meyer, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 6072 (2004)]. In a second example we calculated π→π* photoabsorption spectrum and eigenenergies of ethene (C 2 H 4 ) and compared it with previous work [M. R. Brill, F. Gatti, D. Lauvergnat, and H.-D. Meyer, Chem. Phys. 338, 186 (2007)]. In this ethene study the dimensionality was reduced from 12 to 6 by freezing six internal coordinates. Results for both molecules show that the proposed method for obtaining an approximate KEO is reliable for dynamical calculations. The error in eigenenergies was found to be below 1 cm −1 for most states calculated.
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González, Emilio J.; Calvar, Noelia; Domínguez, Ángeles; Macedo, Eugénia A.
2013-01-01
Highlights: ► Osmotic and physical properties of binary mixtures {alcohol + [BMim][TfO]} were measured. ► From experimental data, apparent molar properties and osmotic coefficients were calculated. ► The apparent properties were fitted using a Redlich–Meyer type equation. ► The osmotic coefficients were correlated using the Extended Pitzer model. -- Abstract: In this work, physical properties (densities and speeds of sound) for the binary systems {1-propanol, or 2-propanol, or 1-butanol, or 2-butanol, or 1-pentanol + 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate} were experimentally measured from T = (293.15 to 323.15) K and at atmospheric pressure. These data were used to calculate the apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression which were fitted to a Redlich–Meyer type equation. This fit was used to obtain the corresponding apparent molar properties at infinite dilution. On the other hand, the osmotic and activity coefficients and vapor pressures of these binary mixtures were also determined at T = 323.15 K using the vapor pressure osmometry technique. The Extended Pitzer model of Archer was employed to correlate the experimental osmotic coefficients. From the parameters obtained in the correlation, the mean molal activity coefficients and the excess Gibbs free energy for the studied mixtures were calculated
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The equation of state package FEOS for high energy density matter
Faik, Steffen; Tauschwitz, Anna; Iosilevskiy, Igor
2018-06-01
Adequate equation of state (EOS) data is of high interest in the growing field of high energy density physics and especially essential for hydrodynamic simulation codes. The semi-analytical method used in the newly developed Frankfurt equation of state (FEOS) package provides an easy and fast access to the EOS of - in principle - arbitrary materials. The code is based on the well known QEOS model (More et al., 1988; Young and Corey, 1995) and is a further development of the MPQeos code (Kemp and Meyer-ter Vehn, 1988; Kemp and Meyer-ter Vehn, 1998) from Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ) in Garching Germany. The list of features contains the calculation of homogeneous mixtures of chemical elements and the description of the liquid-vapor two-phase region with or without a Maxwell construction. Full flexibility of the package is assured by its structure: A program library provides the EOS with an interface designed for Fortran or C/C++ codes. Two additional software tools allow for the generation of EOS tables in different file output formats and for the calculation and visualization of isolines and Hugoniot shock adiabats. As an example the EOS of fused silica (SiO2) is calculated and compared to experimental data and other EOS codes.
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Masoud Gharib
2011-10-01
Full Text Available Objectives: Stroke, is one of the major causes of disability in adults. So, the patient may prefer to use the non-involved limb to perfom selfcare & named this phenomen learned non used. Constraint induced therapy is one of the rehabilitative interventions that can be effective in restoration of the function of the involved limb in some hemiparetic post stroke patients. purpose of this study was to investigate effect of time constraind induced therapy on function, coordination and movements of upper limb on hemiplegic adults. Methods: In an interventional design, 15 hemiplegic patients attended in stracture exrcises for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for 12 weeks in during while for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week for 12 weeks, the sound limb was restricted within an arm sling for movement & dextrity assessment were used Fugl-Meyer & Minnesota Manual Dexterity Test. Results: the results of Fugl-Meyer & Minnesota Manual Dexterity Test were significantly improved in patients, after the intervention (P<0.05. Discussion: Our study shows that using CIT in involved limb encouraged the patients to use their involved limb and improved function by conquering learned non-use of the limb. more research is necessary to define baselines or golden times for rehabilitation of the patients using CIT method.
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Impact of American Cinema on Nuclear Geopolitical Identity
2014-04-01
37 Meyer reported repeated illnesses during filming, diagnosed as severe clinical depression as a result of the film’s premise of nuclear war.38...America’s ideological consciousness. After viewing the film, President Reagan stated it was "…very effective and left him extremely depressed ...Kramer Productions, 1959. Motion Picture. 19. YouTube , "On the Beach: Trailer." Stanley Kramer Productions, 1959. http://www.you tube.com/watch?v
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Civil-Military Relations in the European Union and Innere Fuehrung
2010-06-01
Meyer, The Concept of “Innere Fuehrung” and its Translation into the Agenda of Socialisation of German Soldiers. German Case. PRIF-Research Paper No. II...with regards to the labor market than an indicator for gender equality and generally more open-minded and modern societies. The countries that do still...Translation into the Agenda of Socialisation of German Soldiers, 36. For a more critical view on the practical implementation of Innere Fuehrung in times of
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Meyer,D
1971-01-01
Daniel Meyer, Président de la ligue française de défense de droits de l'homme et du citoyen fait un exposé sur son engagement (politique). Dans la deuxième partie, une avocate brésilienne (en exil)donne un témoignage de la violation des droits de l'homme sous la dictature militaire de son pays; elle a défendu pendant 6 ans des prisonniers politiques.
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Three-Dimensional Interactions and Vortical Flows with Emphasis on High Speeds
1980-07-01
pylons, boundary-layer diverters, and unfaired junctions of the wing and tail surfaces with the body are important examples (Meyer 1968; Peake, Rainbird...209, Jan. 1975. Fiechter, M., " Uber Wirbelsysteme an schlanken Rotationskbrpern und ihren Einfluss auf die aerodynamischen Beiwerte," Deutsch...10 0 O . ’ 1N . 2 .4 . .1LL 61 SHUTTLE WINDWARD SURFACE H4EATING FOR (d) CALCULATED WINDWARD VPAN*=S WIND- TUNNEL CONOITIONS M_ - 7.4% 1 EATING FOR
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Changes in Attitude towards Gender Inequality in the
Vakil Ahmadi
2013-01-01
Introduction Gender inequality stems from social factors in each society. In theories of gender inequality, it has been assumed that family role in reproduction of gender inequality is of crucial importance (Bourdieu 2001, Chaftez 1999, dyson 2001). Demographic transition is one of the factors in the structure of family changes in recent century. Demographic transition is applied to changes from high levels of mortality and fertility to low levels (Lucas & meyer 2002). Demographic transit...
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Defect relaxation in disordered materials
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Crandell, R.S.
1989-01-01
Using an exponential distribution of activation barriers, annealing data for metastable effects in hydrogenated amorphous silicon, a-Si:H, are quantitatively explained. This includes the stretched exponential time dependence of annealing and a Meyer-Neldel rule for the annealing time constant. An exponential distribution of annealing energies arises because defects are frozen in during growth at high temperature. Mechanisms that lead to an exponential distribution of annealing energies are weak bond-breaking and charge trapping
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Kemp, Brian M; Lindo, John; Bolnick, Deborah A; Malhi, Ripan S; Chatters, James C
2015-02-20
Prüfer and Meyer raise concerns over the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) results we reported for the Hoyo Negro individual, citing failure of a portion of these data to conform to their expectations of ancient DNA (aDNA). Because damage patterns in aDNA vary, outright rejection of our findings on this basis is unwarranted, especially in light of our other observations. Copyright © 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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The 1999 Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer (COMET XVI)
1999-07-14
Farrell,* John D. DeSain, Craig A. Taaties Combustion Research Facility, Mail Stop 9055, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551-0969 The...Knowles, with contributions by J. Alml~f, R. D. Amos, M. J. 0. Deegan , S. T. Elbert, C. Hampel, W. Meyer, K. A. Peterson, R. M. Pitzer, A. J. Stone...Department of Molecular and Laser Physics Fax: +84 564 54 2254 University of Nijmegen Toernooi veld 1 6525 Nijmegen Taatjes, Craig The Netherlands
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2013-03-08
... Meyer, Jr., individually and as trustee of the: ACM, Jr. 2010 3Y GRAT A, the ACM, Jr. 2010 3Y GRAT B, the ACM, Jr. 2010 3Y GRAT C, the ACM, Jr. 2013 2Y GRAT A, the ACM, Jr. 2013 2Y GRAT B, the ACM, Jr. 2013 2Y GRAT C, the ACM, Jr. 2013 2Y GRAT D, the Katharine Clara Kimmel Non- Exempt Trust C/U Elisabeth...
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CSIR Research Space (South Africa)
Meyers, BC
2011-09-01
Full Text Available by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. All rights reserved ISABE-2011-1129 EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS SHOWING THE INTERNAL THREE-COMPONENT VELOCITY FIELD AND OUTLET TEMPERATURE CONTOURS FOR A MODEL GAS TURBINE COMBUSTOR BC Meyers*, GC... identifier c Position identifier F Fuel i Index L (Combustor) Liner OP Orifice plate Introduction There are often inconsistencies when comparing experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations for gas turbine combustors [1...
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An exploration study to detect important factors influencing insurance firms
Farzaneh Soleimani; Fattaneh Alizadeh Meshkani; Abdullah Naami
2013-01-01
The recent trend on competition among insurance firms has increased motivation to look for important factors influencing this industry. In this paper, we present an empirical investigation to find important factors shaping this industry. The proposed study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and, using principal component analysis, detects important factors on the success of this industry. Cronbach alpha is calculated as 0.849, and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's Test are calculated as ...
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Examining the role of export competitive advantages on export performance
Yeganeh Alimohammadi; Reza Aghamousa; Fataneh Alizadeh Meshkani
2014-01-01
This paper investigates the role of export competitive advantage on export performance in food industry. The proposed study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and distributes it among 280 randomly selected experts in food industry and Cronbach alpha has been calculated as 0.827. The study has applied factor analysis to find important factors influencing export performance. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy and Bartlett's Test of Sphericity have been performed to validate th...
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238-IJBCS-Article- Dr Tsirinirindravo H L
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de la Standardisation biologique de l'O.M.S en 1977. Leurs CMI étaient ensuite déterminées. Ainsi, après un relancement de chaque souche bactérienne sur du bouillon nutritif à 37 °C pendant 24 h, chaque culture est diluée de façon à avoir une concentration égale à 103 cellules par ml (Meyer , 1994). Le milieu inoculé ...
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Influence without Boots on the Ground: Seaborne Crisis Response
2013-01-01
67 Figure 6 Conceptualization of the Theoretical Context of Gunboat Diplomacy 73 Figure 7 USN Force Combinations Pyramid 78 Figure 8 CNA III USN...USMC FIGure 7 USN Force Combinations Pyramid influence without boots on the ground 79 meyers$:___WIP from C 032812:_Newport Papers:_NP39:_InDesign:04...forces on the reduction of tensions. on 4 april 1957, Jordanian army officers and Palestinians sympathetic to President gamal abdel Nasser of egypt
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2013-03-20
ST rc*uu 1 C MO Digit Responses for DS, SS, ST ^*rr*- nfc *. Figure 4. Observed (solid lines and points) and predicted (dotted lines and open...digital imaging technology makes it possible to revolutionize how periscope observation is done - in particular, rather than a single observer physically...and Control Research and Technology , National Defense University, Washington, D.C., June 19-22.314-325. Kieras, D. E., & Meyer, D. E. (2000). The role
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Carbon Tetrachloride Increases Intracellular Calcium in Rat Liver and Hepatocyte Cultures
1986-05-12
tible to destruction by CC14 ( Head ~ al., 1981). Thus, the activation of CC14 to a toxic moiety clearly depends upon metabolism by one or more... embryologic development (Wyllie, 1986). In contrast, Toyo-oka et al. (1985) could not establish that phospholipase& or proteases were involved in ischemic...D. M. Bissell, and u. A Meyer. (1977) Drug Metabolism in Adult Rat Hepatocyte& in Primary Monolayer Culture. Gastroenterology 72:1232-1239. Head , B
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1982-12-01
hyperten- sion. Clin. Sci. (suppl) 61:13s-15s, 1981. 8. Canessa, M., Adragna , N., Solomon, H.S., Connolly, T.M., and Tosteson, D.C. Increased sodium...H., Adragna , N., Tosteson, D.C., Dagher, G., Garay, R., and Meyer, P. Na counter- transport and cotransport in human red cells: function...reference range for apparently healthy adults. Clin. Chem. 23:275-278, 1977. 16. Garay, R., Adragna , N., Canessa, M., and Tosteson, D. Outward sodium
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TOXICITY PROPENSITIES OF SOME MARINE AND FRESH-WATERALGAE AS THEIR CHEMICAL DEFENSE
ORHAN, İlkay; WISESPONGPAND, Puntip; ATICI, Tahir; ŞENER, Bilge
2003-01-01
Five species of the marine brown-algae, namely Halopteris scoparia (L.) Sauvagau, Padina vickersiae Hoyt, Dictyota dichotoma (Huds) Lam., Scinaia furcellata L., and Sargassum natans (L.) J. Meyer, a species of the marine green-alga, Ulva lactuca L., a species of the sea grass, Posidonia oceanica L., six species of fresh-water green-algae, namely Vaucheria sessilis (Vauch.) De Candolle, Zygnema pectinatum (Vauch.) C.A. Agardh, Maugeotia sp. (C.A. Agardh) Wittrock, Cladophora fracta (Dilw.) Kti...
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1987-01-01
status is questioned. An X prior to the species name in the scientific name column denotes a hybrid . For purposes of this manual, all species appearing...S. Wats. Rusty molly kochia FACW K. scc’pari.a (L.) Schrader Sunmmer cypress ...actuca pu~ZchelZa (Pursh) DC. Chicory lettuce -serriola L. Prickly... lettuce FAG :antana cwnara L. Lantana% :asthenia burkei (Greene) Greene Gold-fields chry8Sstoma (Fisch. & C. A. Lasthenia Meyer) Greene Lconjtgen8 Greene
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1994-09-30
Amphitheatre Poincare DIMANCHE 24 AVRIL / SUNDAY APRIL 24th TRAUMATISME CRANIEN CHEZ L’ENFANT HEAD TRA UMA IN CHILDREN Mod6rateurs : J. BERMAN (Winston...Salem, Etats-Unis), Ph. MEYER (Paris, France) 08h30 Epid6miologie et physio-pathologie des traumatismes craniens chez 1’enfant Epidemiology and...pathophysiology of head injuries in children P. OAKLEY (Staffordshire, Royaume-Uni) 09h00 R6animation pr6-hospitali~re du traumatisme cranien grave
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Noélia Calvar; Emilio J. González; Ángeles Domínguez; Eugénia A. Macedo
2012-01-01
In this paper, densities and speeds of sound for five binary systems {alcohol + 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide} were measured from T = (293.15 to 323.15) K and atmospheric pressure. From these experimental data, apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression have been calculated and fitted to a Redlich-Meyer type equation. This fit was also used to calculate the apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression at infinite dilution for the studied binar...
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Noélia Calvar; Emilio J. González; Dominguez, A; Maria Eugénia Macedo
2012-01-01
In this paper, densities and speeds of sound for five binary systems {alcohol + 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide} were measured from T = (293.15 to 323.15) K and atmospheric pressure. From these experimental data, apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression have been calculated and fitted to a Redlich-Meyer type equation. This fit was also used to calculate the apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression at infinite dilution for the studied binar...
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Peters, Heather T.; Dunning, Kari; Belagaje, Samir; Kissela, Brett M.; Ying, Jun; Laine, Jarmo; Page, Stephen J.
2017-01-01
Objectives. (a) To determine associations among motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude, MEP latency, lower extremity (LE) impairment, and gait velocity and (b) determine the association between the presence of a detectable MEP signal with LE impairment and with gait velocity. Method. 35 subjects with chronic, stable LE hemiparesis were undergone TMS, the LE section of the Fugl-Meyer Impairment Scale (LE FM), and 10-meter walk test. We recorded presence, amplitude, and latency of MEPs in the a...
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Identifying factors affecting optimal management of agricultural water
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Masoud Samian
2015-01-01
In addition to quantitative methodology such as descriptive statistics and factor analysis a qualitative methodology was employed for dynamic simulation among variables through Vensim software. In this study, the factor analysis technique was used through the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO and Bartlett tests. From the results, four key elements were identified as factors affecting the optimal management of agricultural water in Hamedan area. These factors were institutional and legal factors, technical and knowledge factors, economic factors and social factors.
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2009-01-01
America (Carignan and Vaithiyanathan 1999). Mayer and Gloss (1980) reported a kd of 600 L kg-1 for TSS of the Colorado River. Higher percentages of...the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences. Biogeochem 35:75-139. Howarth, R. W., A. Sharpley, and D. Walker. 2002... bryophytes in phosphorus dynamics in a headwater stream ecosystem. Limnol Oceanogr 24:365-375. 33 ERDC TN-SWWRP-09-1 January 2009 Meyer, M. L., and S
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They Have Not Yet Begun to Fight: Women in the United States Navy Submarine Fleet
2016-03-11
submarine duty could lead to sexual problems aboard ship and marital problems at home .”22 Some argue that wives do not trust women at sea with...enforces the argument that women are here to stay in submarines. While political and military experts continue to debate the roles of women in submarines...ACSC/Meyer, J/FY16 AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE AIR UNIVERSITY They Have Not Yet Begun to Fight: Women in the United States
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Comprometimento organizacional e profissional da equipe de saúde.
Llapa Rodríguez, EO.; Trevizan, M.A.; Shinyashiki Tadeu, G.; Mendes Costa, IA.
2009-01-01
Campo de Estudio: La presente investigación fue realizada en un Servicio de Salud de Atención Primaria en Arequipa–Perú. Objetivo: identificar y analizar el compromiso organizacional y profesional de trabajadores que integran un equipo de atención primaria. Método: Estudio de caso realizado con 12 profesionales de salud, fundamentado en el modelo teórico de Meyer y Allen para el Compromiso Organizacional y Profesional, utilizando entrevistas semi-estructuradas analizadas s...
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Pengaruh Budaya Organisasi Terhadap Komitmen Afektif Pada Karyawan PT. Pos Pusat Medan
Sanjaya, M. Ricky
2016-01-01
The pupose of this study was to look the influence of organizational culture on affective commitment among employees PT. Pos Pusat Medan. This study used quantitative approach. To collected data of organizational culture scale based on Robbins theory about organizational culture that contains 35 items and organizational commitment scale based on Meyer & Allen’s theory about affective commitment that contains 10 items. The samples of this study were 100 employess PT. Pos Pusat Medan. The da...
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State-selective electron capture in collisions of ground and metastable O2+ ions with H(1s)
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Cabello, C N; Errea, L F; Fernandez, L; Mendez, L; Macias, A; Rabadan, I; Riera, A
2003-01-01
An ab initio calculation of the electron capture cross sections for collisions of ground and metastable states of O 2+ with H(1s) is presented. For impact energies between 0.125 and 3.4 keV amu -1 , we find good agreement between the cross sections from the ground state ion with the mixed beam experimental data of Phaneuf et al (Phaneuf A, Alvarez I, Meyer F W and Crandall D H 1982 Phys. Rev. A 26 1892)
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Integral model of linear momentum for one-dimensional two-phase flows
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Kuznetsov, Yu.A.; Sabaev, E.F.
1976-01-01
''An integrated momentum model'' obtained by Meyer-Rose and widely applicable in calculations of dynamics of the thermal power systems is generalized for a case of flow of a vapour-liquid mixture with phase creep and pressure variation in the heated channel. Pressure distribution along the channel length is shown for a number of cases to be negligible. The obtained equations are found as well applicable in case pressure greatly though slowly varies in the system
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NUEVAS CITAS DE ASCLEPIADACEAE PARA ARGENTINA
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Sergio A Cáceres Moral
1989-01-01
Full Text Available Dos especies no mencionadas anteriormente de la Argentina son tratadas e ilustradas: Oxypetalum molle Hook. et Arn. y Oxypetalum ineanum Fourn. Oxypetalum appendieulatum Mart. et Zucc., Oxypetalum confusum Malme, Oxypetalum jörgensenii Meyer, Oxypetalum microphyllum Hook. et Arn., Oxypetalum pannosum Decaisne, Oxypetalum stipatum Malme, Funastrum flavum (Decaisne Malme y Blepharodon lineare (Decaisne Decaisne se registran por primera vez para la flora de Corrientes ..
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EL MANEJO DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD EN EL SIGLO XXI
ARIEL E. LUGO
2001-01-01
ser humano está transformando rápidamente el planeta Tierra (Meyer y Turner, 1994; Vitousek et al., 1997a). Su actividad tiene efectos globales que modifican el ambiente terrÃcola (Tabla I). Estos cambios, que comenzaron con la revolución industrial del siglo XIX, serán más notables en el siglo XXI en lo que se ha denominado la era Homogeocena donde el efecto dominante...
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Auditory expectation: the information dynamics of music perception and cognition.
Pearce, Marcus T; Wiggins, Geraint A
2012-10-01
Following in a psychological and musicological tradition beginning with Leonard Meyer, and continuing through David Huron, we present a functional, cognitive account of the phenomenon of expectation in music, grounded in computational, probabilistic modeling. We summarize a range of evidence for this approach, from psychology, neuroscience, musicology, linguistics, and creativity studies, and argue that simulating expectation is an important part of understanding a broad range of human faculties, in music and beyond. Copyright © 2012 Cognitive Science Society, Inc.
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De Lange, Willem J
2012-05-01
Full Text Available (priorities, 132 values and objectives) in the context of the problem; the outputs can guide decision-makers to 133 identify a preferred course of action (Mamphweli and Meyer, 2009, Strager and Rosenberger, 134 2006, Hobbs et al., 1992, Belton and Stewart..., A. (1993) People?s self development: Perspectives on participatory action research., London, UK., 604 Zed Publications. 605 RENN, O. (2006) Participatory processes for designing environmental policies. Land Use Policy, 23, 34-43. 606 RENN, O...
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Gay as classroom practice: A study on sexuality in a secondary language classroom
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Angelica Simonsson
2016-06-01
Full Text Available In this study conceptions of sexuality in classroom praxis are investigated. Sexuality and education is a growing field of research, in Sweden as well as internationally, something which has been recently represented also in Confero, not least in the contributions in the special issue "Queering School, Queers in School". In the introduction to an anthology on gender, sexuality and education, Carlson and Meyer point out that school, as an institution, plays an important role in society when it comes to regulating gender and sexuality since school is a producer of differences in terms of "separable binary oppositions" such as man-woman and straight-gay, that are easily understood within the dominating culture and where one in each couple is usually more highly valued than the other. Carlson and Meyer further assert that school as an institution, in this way, produces gender and sexuality. One example of this is presented by Dalley and Campbell, who in their study of pupil interaction in high school conclude that the male pupils produce heterosexuality, whether actual or pretended, as normal by referencing homosexuality as abnormal. Our reading of these studies indicates that within both formal and informal schooling, meaning and knowledge is produced through everyday practices in which conceptions of gender and sexuality are crucial. In these practices, heterosexuality holds a position as taken-for-granted and normative.
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Wang, Zun; Wang, Lei; Fan, Hongjuan; Jiang, Wenjun; Wang, Sheng; Gu, Zhaohua; Wang, Tong
2014-09-01
[Purpose] To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of adapted low intensity ergometer aerobic training for early and severely impaired stroke survivors. [Subjects] The subjects were forty-eight early stroke survivors. [Methods] Eligible subjects were recruited and randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. Both groups participated in comprehensive rehabilitation training. Low intensity aerobic training was only performed by the experimental group. Outcome measures were the Fugl-Meyer motor score, Barthel index, exercise test time, peak heart rate, plasma glucose level and serum lipid profiles. [Results] Patients in the experimental group finished 88.6% of the total aerobic training sessions prescribed. In compliant participants (adherence≥80%), aerobic training significantly improved the Barthel index (from 40.1±21.1 to 79.2±14.2), Fugl-Meyer motor score (from 26.4±19.4 to 45.4±12.7), exercise test time (from 12.2±3.62 min to 13.9±3.6 min), 2-hour glucose level (from 9.22±1.16 mmol/L to 7.21±1.36 mmol/L) and homeostasis model of assessment for insulin resistence index (from 1.72±1.01 to 1.28±0.88). [Conclusion] Preliminary findings suggest that early and severely impaired stroke patients may benefit from low intensity ergometer aerobic training.
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Kwakkel, Gert; van Wegen, Erwin E; Meskers, Carel M
2015-06-01
In this issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Jessica McCabe and colleagues report findings from their methodologically sound, dose-matched clinical trial in 39 patients beyond 6 months poststroke. In this phase II trial, the effects of 60 treatment sessions, each involving 3.5 hours of intensive practice plus either 1.5 hours of functional electrical stimulation (FES) or a shoulder-arm robotic therapy, were compared with 5 hours of intensive daily practice alone. Although no significant between-group differences were found on the primary outcome measure of Arm Motor Ability Test and the secondary outcome measure of Fugl-Meyer Arm motor score, 10% to 15% within-group therapeutic gains were on the Arm Motor Ability Test and Fugl-Meyer Arm. These gains are clinically meaningful for patients with stroke. However, the underlying mechanisms that drive these improvements remain poorly understood. The approximately $1000 cost reduction per patient calculated for the use of motor learning (ML) methods alone or combined with FES, compared with the combination of ML and shoulder-arm robotics, further emphasizes the need for cost considerations when making clinical decisions about selecting the most appropriate therapy for the upper paretic limb in patients with chronic stroke. Copyright © 2015 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Devier, Deidre; Harnar, JoAnn; Lopez, Leandro; Brashear, Allison; Graham, Glenn
2017-07-11
OnabotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A) can temporarily decrease spasticity following stroke, but whether there is an associated improvement in upper limb function is less clear. This study measured the benefit of adding weekly rehabilitation to a background of BoNT-A treatments for chronic upper limb spasticity following stroke. This was a multi-center clinical trial. Thirty-one patients with post-stroke upper limb spasticity were treated with BoNT-A. They were then randomly assigned to 24 weeks of weekly upper limb rehabilitation or no rehabilitation. They were injected up to two times, and followed for 24 weeks. The primary outcome was change in the Fugl-Meyer upper extremity score, which measures motor function, sensation, range of motion, coordination, and speed. The 'rehab' group significantly improved on the Fugl-Meyer upper extremity score (Visit 1 = 60, Visit 5 = 67) while the 'no rehab' group did not improve (Visit 1 = 59, Visit 5 = 59; p = 0.006). This improvement was largely driven by the upper extremity "movement" subscale, which showed that the 'rehab' group was improving (Visit 1 = 33, Visit 5 = 37) while the 'no rehab' group remained virtually unchanged (Visit 1 = 34, Visit 5 = 33; p = 0.034). Following injection of BoNT-A, adding a program of rehabilitation improved motor recovery compared to an injected group with no rehabilitation.
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Safety and improvement of movement function after stroke with atomoxetine: A pilot randomized trial
Ward, Andrea; Carrico, Cheryl; Powell, Elizabeth; Westgate, Philip M.; Nichols, Laurie; Fleischer, Anne; Sawaki, Lumy
2016-01-01
Background: Intensive, task-oriented motor training has been associated with neuroplastic reorganization and improved upper extremity movement function after stroke. However, to optimize such training for people with moderate-to-severe movement impairment, pharmacological modulation of neuroplasticity may be needed as an adjuvant intervention. Objective: Evaluate safety, as well as improvement in movement function, associated with motor training paired with a drug to upregulate neuroplasticity after stroke. Methods: In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, 12 subjects with chronic stroke received either atomoxetine or placebo paired with motor training. Safety was assessed using vital signs. Upper extremity movement function was assessed using Fugl-Meyer Assessment, Wolf Motor Function Test, and Action Research Arm Test at baseline, post-intervention, and 1-month follow-up. Results: No significant between-groups differences were found in mean heart rate (95% CI, –12.4–22.6; p = 0.23), mean systolic blood pressure (95% CI, –1.7–29.6; p = 0.21), or mean diastolic blood pressure (95% CI, –10.4–13.3; p = 0.08). A statistically significant between-groups difference on Fugl-Meyer at post-intervention favored the atomoxetine group (95% CI, 1.6–12.7; p = 0.016). Conclusion: Atomoxetine combined with motor training appears safe and may optimize motor training outcomes after stroke. PMID:27858723
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Nanoindentation hardness of hot-pressed boron suboxide
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Machaka, Ronald; Derry, Trevor E.; Sigalas, Iakovos
2011-01-01
Highlights: → The load-displacement indentation response of hot-pressed B 6 O is measured and analysed. → The nanoindentation hardness of hot-pressed boron suboxide is reported. → An approach is developed to simulate multi-cycling loading load-displacement curves. → A comprehensive model inter-comparison study of the ISE in hot-pressed B 6 O is also presented. → The fractal dimension is a better measure of ISE than the Meyer's index. - Abstract: The existence of the indentation size effect implies the absence of a single hardness value for the material under investigation especially at low applied loads. In this paper we present an investigation of the indentation size dependence behaviour of nanoindentation hardness in boron suboxide ceramic compacts prepared by uniaxial hot-pressing. Berkovich nanohardness indentations were conducted and analyzed accordingly. In addition to the ordinary Oliver and Pharr method of nanoindentation data analysis, a quantitative approach for the loading curve analysis is proposed. Using the proposed approach, the description and characterization of the observed indentation size effect through the application of the Meyer's law, and the classical and the modified proportional specimen resistance models as well as the multi-fractal scaling law was conducted and is reported. The load-independent hardness values deduced from our quantitative approach are comparable to the results calculated with conventional methods, especially with the multi-fractal scaling law.
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Virtual Rehabilitation through Nintendo Wii in Poststroke Patients: Follow-Up.
Carregosa, Adriani A; Aguiar Dos Santos, Luan Rafael; Masruha, Marcelo R; Coêlho, Marília Lira da S; Machado, Tácia C; Souza, Daniele Costa B; Passos, Gustavo Luan L; Fonseca, Erika P; Ribeiro, Nildo Manoel da S; de Souza Melo, Ailton
2018-02-01
To evaluate in the follow-up the sensory-motor recovery and quality of life patients 2 months after completion of the Nintendo Wii console intervention and determine whether learning retention was obtained through the technique. Five hemiplegics patients participated in the study, of whom 3 were male with an average age of 54.8 years (SD = 4.6). Everyone practiced Nintendo Wii therapy for 2 months (50 minutes/day, 2 times/week, during 16 sessions). Each session lasting 60 minutes, under a protocol in which only the games played were changed, plus 10 minutes of stretching. In the first session, tennis and hula hoop games were used; in the second session, football (soccer) and boxing were used. For the evaluation, the Fulg-Meyer and Short Form Health Survey 36 (SF-36) scales were utilized. The patients were immediately evaluated upon the conclusion of the intervention and 2 months after the second evaluation (follow-up). Values for the upper limb motor function sub-items and total score in the Fugl-Meyer scale evaluation and functional capacity in the SF-36 questionnaire were sustained, indicating a possible maintenance of the therapeutic effects. The results suggest that after Nintendo Wii therapy, patients had motor learning retention, achieving a sustained benefit through the technique. Copyright © 2018 National Stroke Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Renata Gomes de Jesus
Full Text Available Abstract The most widely-used model in studies of organizational commitment is the three-dimensional model developed by Meyer and Allen in 1991. This model understands the construct as being composed of instrumental, affective, and normative dimensions. However, it has been criticized by researchers who do not view instrumental commitment as related to the concept of commitment, but instead as a possible organizational link. In order to address the conceptual and empirical problems of the instrument, Powell and Meyer perfected the sub-scale of instrumental commitment and recommended that a new scale, named Perceived Sacrifices Associated with Leaving, be used in future research. This article aims to adapt and obtain evidence of the validity of the new scale, and analyze how teachers perceive the sacrifices associated with leaving a Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology. The scale has undergone cross-cultural adaptation and the adapted version was applied to teachers. Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis were applied, displaying evidence of the validity of the construct for the Brazilian version. The results revealed that teachers agree on the high intensity level of the sacrifices associated with leaving, and that teachers who occupy management positions perceive it to a higher degree than others. The proposed changes in the scale should be evaluated in future research, and other studies are important to confirm the results found.
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Meyer, H
1980-10-22
Executives spend about 69% of their time in meeting with at least two other people, according to a recent study out of McGill University. In spite of this, participants do not consider this to be time used wisely and, according to the respondents, the problem seems to be growing worse. Despite the claims of some executives that government regulations or increased corporate complexity underlies the problem, society at large is viewed as the source of the change. Meyer asserts that all institutions have become less authoritarian and the trend away from command has left persuasion and consensus as the basis for corporate level decision-making. Although executives seem to agree that most time is wasted because participants fail to be succinct, the author argues that leaders could improve meetings by choosing the right participants, guiding them briskly through the agenda, and closing the meeting before it degenerates into a shouting match. The article suggests that chief executives are concluding that meeting skills can be learned. Most of the FORTUNE 500 companies have hired outside experts to teach these skills and some companies are building inhouse units for the same purpose. Since meetings have become an integral part of the business day, Meyer concluded that the goal of the executive should be to use the meeting time well.
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2004-01-01
Officials of the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced yesterday the completion of a key component of the U.S. contribution to the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator under construction at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland
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Understanding the Varieties of Chinese Management
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Li, Xin
In this paper, I critique the convergence thesis proposed by S. Pope and J. W. Meyer who envisage the rise of a universalistic corporate organization that tends to supersede national business contexts or at least renders the national institutional environment as less consequential. My counterargu.......e., Confucianism, Legalism, Daoism, and Mohism. I posit, the actually management practices in China can be understood as diverse configurations of the four basic mode of management, i.e., autocracy, bureaucracy, chrismacracy, and democracy (ABCD for short)....
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1986-06-20
Miziolek, Andrzej W. Mescall, John F. Improved Modeling of Fracture in Il 41 .. ii. Tracy, Carl Ceramic Armors Meyer, Fred P. Hardening of High Silica...Mitchell, Glen W. See Simmons, Ronald IV 127 ’ ... Miziolek, Andrzej W. See Melius, Carl F. Il 25 Moerkirk, Robert P. See Ross, Raymond L. Ill 299...Trans. Comput., Vol. C-21, pp. 179-1 86. 4. Duda , R.Oo and P.E. Hart (1973) Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, New York. 5
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On Randomizing Hash Functions to Strengthen the Security of Digital Signatures
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Halevi and Krawczyk proposed a message randomization algorithm called RMX as a front-end tool to the hash-then-sign digital signature schemes such as DSS and RSA in order to free their reliance on the collision resistance property of the hash functions. They have shown that to forge a RMX-hash-th...... that use Davies-Meyer schemes and a variant of RMX published by NIST in its Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-106. We discuss some important applications of our attack....
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On randomizing hash functions to strengthen the security of digital signatures
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Gauravaram, Praveen; Knudsen, Lars Ramkilde
2009-01-01
Halevi and Krawczyk proposed a message randomization algorithm called RMX as a front-end tool to the hash-then-sign digital signature schemes such as DSS and RSA in order to free their reliance on the collision resistance property of the hash functions. They have shown that to forge a RMX-hash-th...... schemes that use Davies-Meyer schemes and a variant of RMX published by NIST in its Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-106. We discuss some important applications of our attack....
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NASA Cryogenic Propellant Systems Technology Development and Potential Opportunities for Discussion
Meyer, Michael L.
2015-01-01
Members of the eCryo Team are traveling to France to meet with CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) on the benchmarking of CFM (Cryogenic Fluids Management) analytical models the week of January 26th, 2015. Mike Meyer is representing the Agency and eCryo Project and will conduct a conversation to explore future work. This slide package (28 charts and 3 movies) requires approval via a 1676. ISS data in this chart set has been copied from public websites.
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Emergence and Transformation of Clusters and Milieus
Antonio Vazquez-Barquero
2006-01-01
A renewed interest in the location of the productive activity has appeared during the last two decades. The literature analyzes a great number of cases of local productive systems in which all types of activities are produced and which locate in regions and countries with different levels of development (Altenburg and Meyer-Stamer, 1999; Rosenfeld, 1997; Staber, 1997; Porter, 1998). Electronics in Silicon Valley, U.S.A. and Silicon Glen in Scotland, but also in Guadalajara, Mexico and in Pena...
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Johan Wassermann; Fransjohan Pretorius
2011-01-01
On 11 October 1899, when the ultimatum issued to Britain had expired, theBoer force consisting of roughly 11 400 burghers from the South African Republic(hereafter ZAR), commanded by Generals Erasmus, Kock and Meyer and 6 000burghers from the Orange Free State (hereafter OFS), under Chief CommandantPrinsloo and Commandant De Villiers, invaded Natal and specifically Klip RiverCounty. The Republican objective seems to have been to defeat the force under Major-General William Penn-Symons at Dund...
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A Unified Framework for Simulating Markovian Models of Highly Dependable Systems
1989-07-01
ependability I’valuiation of Complex lault- lolerant Computing Systems. Ptreedings of the 1-.et-enth Sv~npmiun on Falult- lolerant Comnputing. Portland, Maine...New York. [12] (icis;t, R.M. and ’I’rivedi, K.S. (1983). I!Itra-Il gh Reliability Prediction for Fault-’ lolerant Computer Systems. IEE.-E Trw.%,.cions... 1998 ). Surv’ey of Software Tools for [valuating Reli- ability. A vailability, and Serviceabilitv. ACA1 Computing S urveyjs 20. 4, 227-269). [32] Meyer
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An investigation of the role of brand image on consumer loyalty
Fatemeh Izadi Manesh; Somayeh Hozouri
2013-01-01
This paper presents an investigation on the role of brand image on customer loyalty on rubber industry. The proposed study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale consists of 27 questions, distributes it among some Iranian experts in rubber industry and analyzes it based on principal component analysis. During the survey, the number questions are reduced to 23. Cronbach alpha is calculated as 0.812 and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy and Approx. Chi-Square are 0.671 and 2375, ...
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Emilio Gomez; Noelia Simón; Ángeles Domínguez; Maria Eugénia Macedo
2013-01-01
In this work, physical properties (densities and speeds of sound) for the binary systems {1-propanol, or 2-propanol, or 1-butanol, or 2-butanol, or 1-pentanol + 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium trifluoromethanesulfonate} were experimentally measured from T = (293.15 to 323.15) K and at atmospheric pressure. These data were used to calculate the apparent molar volume and apparent molar isentropic compression which were fitted to a Redlich-Meyer type equation. This fit was used to obtain the corresp...
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Anthropometric Sizing Systems for Army Women’s Field Clothing
1981-03-01
panties and bra (not pictured). HEIGHTS ANKLE HEIGHT (68): the height of the level of minimum circumference of the ankle. AXILLA HEIGHT (4): vertical...Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1959. (AD 130 917) 3O’Brien, R., M.A. Girshick and E.P. Hunt. Body Measurements of American Boys and Girls for...O’Brien, Ruth, Meyer A. Girshick and Eleanor P. Hunt. 1941. Body Measurements of American Boys and Girls for Garment and Pattern Construction. U.S. De
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Effects of aquatic walking exercise using a walker in a chronic stroke patient
Matsuda, Tadashi; Akezaki, Yoshiteru
2017-01-01
[Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine the usefulness of aquatic walking exercise using a walker for chronic stroke patients. We also examined the psychological effects on the study subject and the primary caregiver before and after aquatic walking exercise. [Subject and Methods] The subject was a 60-year-old male with bilateral paralysis after a cerebrovascular accident. The Fugl-Meyer Assessment (FMA) total score was 116 on the right and 115 on the left. The intervention combined aq...
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Investigating the Mechanism of MenaINV-Driven Metastasis
2016-02-01
hydroxyethyl)- 1-piperazineethanesulfonic acid ], pH 7.0, 10 mM EGTA [ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid ], pH 8.0, 2 mM MgCl2, 0.12 M sucrose ), permeabilized...paradigm. J. Invest . Dermatol. 134, 895– 901 (2014). 12. Meyer, A. S., Miller, M. a, Gertler, F. B. & Lauffenburger, D. a. The receptor AXL...expression of Nkx2-1, high expression of Foxa2, low– medium expression of Hmga2, and low-grade histology. (H) Representative H&E and immunohis- tochemical
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1985-06-01
and Meyer, H.G. Life Sciences 36: 1715-1720, 1985. 3. Van Helden, H.P.M.; van der Well, H.J.; and Wolthius, O.L. TNO Technical Report # MBL-1984-3...SYNTHESIS IN OUR LABORA- TORY BY STANDARD LITERATURE PROCEDURES OR AS A GIFT FROM PHARMA - CEUTICAL MANUFACTURERS THAT MARKET THE DRUGS, ALL OF THE COM- POUNDS...Rosenberry, T. L. Croatia Chemica Acto 1975, _7 235 Incursion of other steps then general base catalysis, such as confor-:ational changes, in rate
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1981-05-14
8217 AO-Ail 777 GRUMMAN AEROSPACE CORP BETHPAGE NY F/G 20/4 AN INFLUENCE FUNCTION METHOD FOR PREDICTING STORE AERODYNAMIC C--ETCCU) MAY 8 1 R MEYER, A...CENKO, S YARDS UNCLASSIFIED N ’.**~~N**n I EHEEKI j~j .25 Q~4 111110 111_L 5. AN INFLUENCE FUNCTION METHOD FOR PREDICTING STORE AERODYNAMIC...extended to their logical conclusion one is led quite naturally to consideration of an " Influence Function Method" for I predicting store aerodynamic
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Adnan CEYLAN
2005-01-01
Full Text Available In this study conducted on 84 public ve private sector employees, the relationships between organizational commitment, motivation to work ve turnover intention are investigated ve to determine the statistically significant relations, Allen ve Meyer's model is used. Statistically coherent corellations between affective, continuance, normative commitment ve motivation to work ve their impact on turnover intention is also investigated by regression analysis. This study serves as an important guide for those who are interested in understanding ve increasing employee commitment.
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Romero Muñoz, Paulina Elizabeth
2017-01-01
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar si las modalidades de contrato Ocasional y Nombramiento influyen en el Compromiso Organizacional de los Servidores Públicos del Ministerio del Trabajo. La literatura investigada ha permitido que se profundice la implicación del funcionario hacia la institución. El análisis de las dimensiones de compromiso fueron enmarcadas en la teoría de John Meyer y Natalie Allen: afectivo, seguimiento o continuidad y normativo. Adicionalmente se han ...
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Persistent Neural Membrane Protein Misregulation Following Neurotoxicant Exposure
2015-12-01
Pope (2002). "Age-related effects of chlorpyrifos on muscarinic receptor-mediated signaling in rat cortex ." Arch Toxicol 75(11-12): 676-684. Zhang...M.F., 2010. Accumulation of pyrethroid compounds in primary cultures from rat cortex . Toxicol. In Vitro 24 (7), 2053–2057. Shafer, T.J., Meyer, D.A...2014). "P2Y1 receptor-mediated potentiation of inspiratory motor output in neonatal rat in vitro." J Physiol 592(Pt 14): 3089-3111. Andrade, R
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Non-trivial pursuit - new approaches to Nordic deliciousness
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Evans, Joshua David
2012-01-01
Nordic Food Lab was founded in 2008 as a research and development lab with the purpose of exploring food in the Nordic region. Chef René Redzepi and gastronomic entrepreneur Claus Meyer, co-owners of the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, realised this investigation could not be undertaken...... in the restaurant kitchen alone. What they needed was a space where chefs, scientists, and other researchers could come together to investigate raw materials, traditional processes, and modern techniques more deeply than the pressure of daily service would allow....
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Batista, Francisco Honório Araújo
2011-01-01
A proposta deste trabalho é de analisar o comprometimento organizacional dos funcionários de uma empresa metalúrgica de Caxias do sul. Esta empresa em análise é a Cemar Legrand empresa pertencente ao Grupo Legrand (Grupo Multinacional Francês). Foi utilizado para a análise um instrumento de pesquisa com reconhecimento pela comunidade científica chamado de modelo dos três componentes de Allen e Meyer (1997) , modelo que caracteriza o comprometimento organizacional em suas dimensões afetivo, i...
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Seasonal variability of the observed barrier layer in the Arabian Sea
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Pankajakshan, T.; Thoppil, P.; Rao, R.R.; Muraleedharan, P.M.; Somayajulu, Y.K.; Gopalakrishna, V.V.; Murthugudde, R.; Reddy, G.V.; Revichandran, C.
significant part of the penetrating solar radia- tion, leading to temperature inversions (Jerlov 1968; Lewis et al. 1990; Anderson et al. 1996). Further, in the presence of the BL, the oceanic response to wind forc- ing also increases (Vialard and Delecluse... in the northern Indian Ocean during winter is the presence of temperature inversion within the BL [Thadathil and Gosh 1992 (SEAS); Thadathil et al. 2002; Thadathil et al. 2007 (BOB); Qu and Meyers 2005 (SETIO); Durand et al. 2004; and Shenoi et al. 2004 (SEAS...
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Semerci, Çetin; Kara, Ahmet
2004-01-01
This study seeks to evaluate the effects of teaching profession courses on the attitudes towards the teaching profession of doctorate students. An Attitude Scale for the Teaching Profession was given to 64 doctoral students of the institutes of Social Studies, Health, Natural and Applied Sciences at Fırat University in the 2000-2001 academic year. There were 30 items in the scale. The KMO (Kaiser- Meyer- Olkin) value was 0.88, the Bartlett test value was 8980.25 and Cronbach alpha mean was 0....
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DEVELOPING VISUAL PRESENTATION ATTITUDE RUBRIC: VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY STUDY
ATEŞ, Hatice KADIOĞLU; ADA, Sefer; BAYSAL, Z. Nurdan
2015-01-01
Abstract The aim of this study is to develop visual presentation attitude rubric which is valid and reliable for the 4th grade students. 218 students took part in this study from Engin Can Güre which located in Istanbul, Esenler. While preparing this assessment tool with 34 criterias , 6 university lecturers view have been taken who are experts in their field. The answer key sheet has 4 (likert )type options. The rubric has been first tested by Kaiser-Meyer Olkin and Bartletts tests an...
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Japan’s Foreign Policy: Metamorphosis in Asia
1976-03-01
time that the Japanese were building their own nuclear -pov/ered comimercial ship , the MUTSU , at a Northern port, public outcries and media pressures...port visits by U.S. nuclear - powered ships . In that respect, it is interesting to note former Ambassador Armin Meyer’s observation that, at the same...AID: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST - 28 III. THE POLITICS OF NON-POWER — - 36 A. THE THIRTY YEAR "PEACE": 1945-1975 36 B. THE NUCLEAR DEBATE 49 C. JAPAN’S
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Reaction of North American neo-Thomism against the «Intelligent Design»
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Desiderio Parrilla Martínez
2017-08-01
Full Text Available The doctrine of «Intelligent Design» formulated by Phillip E. Johnson, Michael Behe, William A. Dembski and Stephen C. Meyer is presented as a scientific alternative to neo-Darwinism. For philosophical naturalism or atheism is only a pseudo-science dependent of «Protestant creationism» and the literal biblical interpretation. The best philosophical critiques, however, come from American neo-Thomism. This paper presents the main arguments used by the Thomism in his polemic against the doctrine of «Intelligent Design».
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Chen Jingling; Kwek, L.C.; Oh, C.H.
2002-01-01
In a recent paper [D. A. Meyer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 1052 (1999)], it has been shown that a classical zero-sum strategic game can become a winning quantum game for the player with a quantum device. Nevertheless, it is well known that quantum systems easily decohere in noisy environments. In this paper, we show that if the handicapped player with classical means can delay his action for a sufficiently long time, the quantum version reverts to the classical zero-sum game under decoherence
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Appendix 1. Contents of part two: experts' contributions [CD-ROM
2013-01-01
1– "Quantification of the scientific diasporas"Jean Johnson 2 – "L'importance relative de la fuite des cerveaux: la place de l'Afrique subsaharienne dans le monde"Philippe Bocquier 3 – "Diasporas: concepts et pratiques"Jean-Baptiste Meyer 4 – "Diasporas en contexte"Roland Waast 5 – "Les coopérations scientifiques du Nord: doctrines et doutes; le cas de l'Afrique"Roland Waast 6 – "Unleashing the forces of the diasporas: capitalizing on brain drain in the era of information and comunication tec...
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Pires, Dessirrê Prudente de Melo
2017-01-01
Este estudo analisa a influência da relação entre liderança transformacional e comprometimento organizacional, aplicado aos servidores de uma instituição de ensino federal pública brasileira. Adotando uma abordagem metodológica quantitativa, utilizou-se o inquérito por questionário com escalas de mensuração Transformational Leadership Behavior Inventory (TLI) e o Modelo dos Três Componentes de Meyer e Allen (1991), foram coletados 127 respondentes, 113 dos quais servidores técnicos-adminis...
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Mariangela Tirico Auricchio
2007-10-01
Full Text Available As informações contidas nas bulas e embalagem de medicamentos de diferentes fabricantes contendo Panax ginseng foram analisadas comparativamente com os dados encontrados na literatura científica. Observaram-se bulas longas, com várias informações em relação às indicações de uso, muitas das quais sem comprovação em humanos, e todas foram deficitárias em relação aos .efeitos adversos e interações medicamentosas. Foi observada falta de padronização quanto às posologias, em relação tanto ao extrato seco, quanto ao teor dos ginsenosídeos presentes. Constatou-se a falta de homogeneidade nas informações aos usuários sobre indicações de uso, efeitos adversos e interações medicamentosas entre as oito amostras estudadas.The information provided on package inserts and inner wrapping of eight products containing Panax ginseng from different manufacturers was compared internally and checked against data from the scientific literature. The inserts included extensive text, containing abundant information on indications for use, but no scientific evidence in humans. All the inserts lacked information on potential adverse effects and drug interaction. There was no standardization as to dose regimens, particularly in relation to the dried extract and ginsenoside concentration. The eight inserts thus showed no concern over standardization, indication for usage, or possible side effects and drug interactions.
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Fritzsch, Dagmar; Thiemeyer, Heinrich
2010-05-01
Tell Chuera is an Early Bronze Age settlement mount in NE-Syria close to the Turkish border. With a diameter of almost 1 km and a height of 18 m it is one of the biggest tells in the region between the rivers Balikh and Khabur. In 1958 the structures of the city wall was known first by Orthmann (1990). This city wall was built of air-dried mud bricks. The age of the founding of this construction is not yet clear. The earliest pottery from the place is dated around 2500 BC to 2350 BC. Inside the fortification a road was detected, which was first excavated by Novak (1995). We took sediment monoliths in 2004 from a new trench, which shows the same situation of the road. A geomagnetic prospection, that included the whole site, suggests that the road was part of the planned extension of the lower town and serves as a circular road (Meyer, in prep.). The micromorphological investigation focussed on the question, how the road was used. Did animals have had access to the town? The thin sections show different indications of the anthropogenic influence. In all samples pseudomorphs after straw are visible. In many parts ash, charred wood fragments, bone fragments, melted material and fragments of basalt and flint were observable, too. These materials are typical for sediments in streets (cf. Goldberg & Macphail, 2006). In some parts of the thin sections faecal spherulites and dung remains with faecal spherulites give an idea that ruminants used the road as well as men. Trampling structures support this assumption. Moreover, leaching of calcite, its redeposition in mottles, pseudomycels and concretions, hydromorphic stains and the translocation of silt indicate postdepositional pedogenic processes. Literature Goldberg, P., & Macphail, R. I. (2006). Practical and theoretical geoarchaeology: UK Blackwell Publishing. Meyer, J.-W. (in prep.). Überlegungen zur Siedlungsstruktur - eine erste Analyse der Ergebnisse der geomagnetischen Prospektion. In J.-W. Meyer (Ed.), Ausgrabungen
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Pérez, E.; Dueñas, S.; Castán, H.; García, H.; Bailón, L. [Dept. de Electricidad y Electrónica, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belén 15, 47011 Valladolid (Spain); Montero, D.; García-Hernansanz, R.; García-Hemme, E.; González-Díaz, G. [Dept. de Física Aplicada III (Electricidad y Electrónica), Univ. Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid (Spain); CEI Campus Moncloa, UCM-UPM, 28040 Madrid (Spain); Olea, J. [CEI Campus Moncloa, UCM-UPM, 28040 Madrid (Spain); Instituto de Energía Solar, E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid (Spain)
2015-12-28
The energy levels created in supersaturated n-type silicon substrates with titanium implantation in the attempt to create an intermediate band in their band-gap are studied in detail. Two titanium ion implantation doses (10{sup 13 }cm{sup -2} and 10{sup 14 }cm{sup -2}) are studied in this work by conductance transient technique and admittance spectroscopy. Conductance transients have been measured at temperatures of around 100 K. The particular shape of these transients is due to the formation of energy barriers in the conduction band, as a consequence of the band-gap narrowing induced by the high titanium concentration. Moreover, stationary admittance spectroscopy results suggest the existence of different energy level configuration, depending on the local titanium concentration. A continuum energy level band is formed when titanium concentration is over the Mott limit. On the other hand, when titanium concentration is lower than the Mott limit, but much higher than the donor impurity density, a quasi-continuum energy level distribution appears. Finally, a single deep center appears for low titanium concentration. At the n-type substrate, the experimental results obtained by means of thermal admittance spectroscopy at high reverse bias reveal the presence of single levels located at around E{sub c}-425 and E{sub c}-275 meV for implantation doses of 10{sup 13 }cm{sup −2} and 10{sup 14 }cm{sup −2}, respectively. At low reverse bias voltage, quasi-continuously distributed energy levels between the minimum of the conduction bands, E{sub c} and E{sub c}-450 meV, are obtained for both doses. Conductance transients detected at low temperatures reveal that the high impurity concentration induces a band gap narrowing which leads to the formation of a barrier in the conduction band. Besides, the relationship between the activation energy and the capture cross section values of all the energy levels fits very well to the Meyer-Neldel rule. As it is known
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Smith, Calvin M.; Jiang, Danyu; Gong, Jianghong; Yin, Ling
2014-01-01
This paper reports on the mechanical behavior of high-strength dental ceramics, lithium disilicate glass ceramics (LDGC) using nanoindentation and in situ scanning probe microscopy (SPM). The nanoindentation hardness and Young's moduli of LDGC were measured as a function of the applied indentation load. The indentation load/size effect (ISE) was analyzed for both measured nanoindentation hardness and Young's moduli. The true hardness, i.e., the load-independent hardness, was determined based on the proportional specimen resistance (PSR) model. Nanoindentation-induced plasticity in LDGC was characterized by in situ SPM imaging of the indented volumes and by measuring pile-up heights of indented cross-sections. The results show that both nanoindentation hardness and Young's modulus are load-dependent following the expended Meyer's law using a power series. At the nanoindentation loads, indented LDGC can be mainly plastically deformed by limiting cracking events. This unusual behavior, for nominally brittle materials, influences the mode of contact damage in applications such as machining, polishing, wear, impact damage and hardness testing for dental restorations. - Highlights: • Both hardness and Young's modulus of LDGC were load-dependent following the expended Meyer's law. • The true hardness of LDGC was determined based on the proportional specimen resistance (PSR) model. • Nanoindentation-induced plasticity in LDGC was characterized by in situ SPM imaging. • At low nanoindentation loads, indented LDGC can be mainly plastically deformed by limiting cracking events
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Hwang, Chang Ho; Seong, Jin Wan; Son, Dae-Sik
2012-08-01
To evaluate individual finger synchronized robot-assisted hand rehabilitation in stroke patients. Prospective parallel group randomized controlled clinical trial. The study recruited patients who were ≥18 years old, more than three months post stroke, showed limited index finger movement and had weakened and impaired hand function. Patients with severe sensory loss, spasticity, apraxia, aphasia, disabling hand disease, impaired consciousness or depression were excluded. Patients received either four weeks (20 sessions) of active robot-assisted intervention (the FTI (full-term intervention) group, 9 patients) or two weeks (10 sessions) of early passive therapy followed by two weeks (10 sessions) of active robot-assisted intervention (the HTI (half-term intervention) group, 8 patients). Patients underwent arm function assessments prior to therapy (baseline), and at 2, 4 and 8 weeks after starting therapy. Compared to baseline, both the FTI and HTI groups showed improved results for the Jebsen Taylor test, the wrist and hand subportion of the Fugl-Meyer arm motor scale, active movement of the 2nd metacarpophalangeal joint, grasping, and pinching power (P vs. 46.4 ± 37.4) and wrist and hand subportion of the Fugl-Meyer arm motor scale (4.3 ± 1.9 vs. 3.4 ± 2.5) after eight weeks. A four-week rehabilitation using a novel robot that provides individual finger synchronization resulted in a dose-dependent improvement in hand function in subacute to chronic stroke patients.
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Cho, Joung-min; Akiyama, Yuto; Kakinuma, Tomoyuki; Mori, Takehiko
2013-01-01
We have investigated trap density of states (trap DOS) in n-channel organic field-effect transistors based on N,N ’-bis(cyclohexyl)naphthalene diimide (Cy-NDI) and dimethyldicyanoquinonediimine (DMDCNQI). A new method is proposed to extract trap DOS from the Arrhenius plot of the temperature-dependent transconductance. Double exponential trap DOS are observed, in which Cy-NDI has considerable deep states, by contrast, DMDCNQI has substantial tail states. In addition, numerical simulation of the transistor characteristics has been conducted by assuming an exponential trap distribution and the interface approximation. Temperature dependence of transfer characteristics are well reproduced only using several parameters, and the trap DOS obtained from the simulated characteristics are in good agreement with the assumed trap DOS, indicating that our analysis is self-consistent. Although the experimentally obtained Meyer-Neldel temperature is related to the trap distribution width, the simulation satisfies the Meyer-Neldel rule only very phenomenologically. The simulation also reveals that the subthreshold swing is not always a good indicator of the total trap amount, because it also largely depends on the trap distribution width. Finally, band transport is explored from the simulation having a small number of traps. A crossing point of the transfer curves and negative activation energy above a certain gate voltage are observed in the simulated characteristics, where the critical V G above which band transport is realized is determined by the sum of the trapped and free charge states below the conduction band edge
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Large eddy simulation of a fuel rod subchannel
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Mayer, Gusztav
2007-01-01
In a VVER-440 reactor the measured outlet temperature is related to fuel limit parameters and the power upgrading plans of VVER-440 reactors motivated us to obtain more information on the mixing process of the fuel assemblies. In a VVER-440 rod bundle the fuel rods are arranged in triangular array. Measurement shows (Krauss and Meyer, 1998) that the classical engineering approach, which tries to trace the characterization of such systems back to equivalent (hydraulic diameter) pipe flows, does not give reasonable results. Due to the different turbulence characteristics, the mixing is more intensive in rod bundles than it would be expected based on equivalent pipe flow correlations. As a possible explanation of the high mixing, secondary flow was deduced from measurements by several experimentalists (Trupp and Azad, 1975). Another candidate to explain the high mixing is the so-called flow pulsation phenomenon (Krauss and Meyer, 1998). In this paper we present subchannel simulations (Mayer et al. 2007) using large eddy simulation (LES) methodology and the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) without the spacers at Reynolds number 21000. The simulation results are compared with the measurements of Trupp and Azad (1975). The mean axial velocity profile shows good agreement with the measurement data. Secondary flow has been observed directly in the simulation results. Reasonable agreement has been achieved for most Reynolds stresses. Nevertheless, the calculated normal stresses show small, but systematic deviation from the measurement data. (author)
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State resolved rotational excitation in HD+D2 collisions. II. Angular dependence of 0→2 transitions
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Buck, U.; Huisken, F.; Maneke, G.; Schaefer, J.
1983-01-01
Time-of-flight spectra for the scattering of HD molecules from D 2 molecules have been measured at a collision energy of E = 70.3 meV over a range of center-of-mass scattering angles from 45 0 to 158 0 . The spectra reveal clearly resolved transitions at the energy loss ΔE = 33 meV which corresponds to 0→2 transitions of HD and the double transition 0→1 of HD and 0→2 of D 2 . The differential cross sections derived from these spectra increase with increasing scattering angle from 1.7% to 34.7% of the elastic cross section. The pure 0→2 transition of D 2 which only needs 22 meV to be induced could not be detected within our experimental sensitivity of 0.02 A 2 /sr. Closed coupled calculations based on the ab initio potential surface of Meyer and Schaefer show that this result can be explained by the different coupling terms which are responsible for these transitions. In contrast to the 0→1 transition the 0→2 transition of HD proved to be sensitive to the anisotropic part of the interaction potential for the homonuclear system. The comparison of experimental and calculated cross sections for the ab initio potential of Meyer and Schaefer reveals discrepancies for the 0→1 transition of HD, but shows agreement for the 0→2 transition of HD at intermediate angles
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Deidre Devier
2017-07-01
Full Text Available Background: OnabotulinumtoxinA (BoNT-A can temporarily decrease spasticity following stroke, but whether there is an associated improvement in upper limb function is less clear. This study measured the benefit of adding weekly rehabilitation to a background of BoNT-A treatments for chronic upper limb spasticity following stroke. Methods: This was a multi-center clinical trial. Thirty-one patients with post-stroke upper limb spasticity were treated with BoNT-A. They were then randomly assigned to 24 weeks of weekly upper limb rehabilitation or no rehabilitation. They were injected up to two times, and followed for 24 weeks. The primary outcome was change in the Fugl–Meyer upper extremity score, which measures motor function, sensation, range of motion, coordination, and speed. Results: The ‘rehab’ group significantly improved on the Fugl–Meyer upper extremity score (Visit 1 = 60, Visit 5 = 67 while the ‘no rehab’ group did not improve (Visit 1 = 59, Visit 5 = 59; p = 0.006. This improvement was largely driven by the upper extremity “movement” subscale, which showed that the ‘rehab’ group was improving (Visit 1 = 33, Visit 5 = 37 while the ‘no rehab’ group remained virtually unchanged (Visit 1 = 34, Visit 5 = 33; p = 0.034. Conclusions: Following injection of BoNT-A, adding a program of rehabilitation improved motor recovery compared to an injected group with no rehabilitation.
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Optimal Coordinated Control of Power Extraction in LES of a Wind Farm with Entrance Effects
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Jay P. Goit
2016-01-01
Full Text Available We investigate the use of optimal coordinated control techniques in large eddy simulations of wind farm boundary layer interaction with the aim of increasing the total energy extraction in wind farms. The individual wind turbines are considered as flow actuators, and their energy extraction is dynamically regulated in time, so as to optimally influence the flow field. We extend earlier work on wind farm optimal control in the fully-developed regime (Goit and Meyers 2015, J. Fluid Mech. 768, 5–50 to a ‘finite’ wind farm case, in which entrance effects play an important role. For the optimal control, a receding horizon framework is employed in which turbine thrust coefficients are optimized in time and per turbine. Optimization is performed with a conjugate gradient method, where gradients of the cost functional are obtained using adjoint large eddy simulations. Overall, the energy extraction is increased 7% by the optimal control. This increase in energy extraction is related to faster wake recovery throughout the farm. For the first row of turbines, the optimal control increases turbulence levels and Reynolds stresses in the wake, leading to better wake mixing and an inflow velocity for the second row that is significantly higher than in the uncontrolled case. For downstream rows, the optimal control mainly enhances the sideways mean transport of momentum. This is different from earlier observations by Goit and Meyers (2015 in the fully-developed regime, where mainly vertical transport was enhanced.
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Juhnke, Christin; Mühlbacher, Axel C
2013-01-01
Patient-centred healthcare is becoming a more significant success factor in the design of integrated healthcare systems. The objective of this study is to structure a patient-relevant hierarchy of needs and expectations for the design of organised healthcare delivery systems. A questionnaire with 84 items was conducted with N = 254 healthcare experts and N = 670 patients. Factor analyses were performed using SPSS©18. The number of factors retained was controlled by Kaiser's criterion, validation of screeplots and interpretability of the items. Cronbach's α was used to assess the internal consistency of the subscales. Exploratory factor analysis led to 24 factors in the expert sample and 20 in the patient sample. After analysing the screeplots, confirmatory factor analyses were computed for 7-factor solutions accounting for 42.963% of the total variance and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin of 0.914 for the patients (experts: 38.427%, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin = 0.797). Cronbach's α ranged between 0.899 and 0.756. Based on the analysis, coordinated care could be differentiated into seven dimensions: access, data and information, service and infrastructure, professional care, interpersonal care, individualised care, continuity and coordination. The study provides insight into patient and experts expectations towards the organisation of integrated healthcare delivery systems. If providers and payers can take into account patient needs and expectations while implementing innovative healthcare delivery systems, greater acceptance and satisfaction will be achieved. In the best case, this will lead to better adherence resulting in better clinical outcomes.
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Electroclinic effect in the chiral lamellar α phase of a lyotropic liquid crystal
Harjung, Marc D.; Giesselmann, Frank
2018-03-01
In thermotropic chiral Sm -A* phases, an electric field along the smectic layers breaks the D∞ symmetry of the Sm -A* phase and induces a tilt of the liquid crystal director. This so-called electroclinic effect (ECE) was first reported by Garoff and Meyer in 1977 and attracted substantial scientific and technological interest due to its linear and submicrosecond electro-optic response [S. Garoff and R. B. Meyer, Phys. Rev. A 19, 338 (1979), 10.1103/PhysRevA.19.338]. We now report the observation of an ECE in the pretransitional regime from a lyotropic chiral lamellar Lα* phase into a lyo-Sm -C* phase, the lyotropic analog to the thermotropic Sm -C* phase which was recently discovered by Bruckner et al. [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 8934 (2013), 10.1002/anie.201303344]. We further show that the observed ECE has all signatures of its thermotropic counterpart, namely (i) the effect is chiral in nature and vanishes in the racemic Lα phase, (ii) the effect is essentially linear in the sign and magnitude of the electric field, and (iii) the magnitude of the effect diverges hyperbolically as the temperature approaches the critical temperature of the second order tilting transition. Specific deviations between the ECEs in chiral lamellar and chiral smectic phases are related to the internal field screening effect of electric double layers formed by inevitable ionic impurities in lyotropic phases.
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Nanoindentation hardness of hot-pressed boron suboxide
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2011-07-15
Highlights: {yields} The load-displacement indentation response of hot-pressed B{sub 6}O is measured and analysed. {yields} The nanoindentation hardness of hot-pressed boron suboxide is reported. {yields} An approach is developed to simulate multi-cycling loading load-displacement curves. {yields} A comprehensive model inter-comparison study of the ISE in hot-pressed B{sub 6}O is also presented. {yields} The fractal dimension is a better measure of ISE than the Meyer's index. - Abstract: The existence of the indentation size effect implies the absence of a single hardness value for the material under investigation especially at low applied loads. In this paper we present an investigation of the indentation size dependence behaviour of nanoindentation hardness in boron suboxide ceramic compacts prepared by uniaxial hot-pressing. Berkovich nanohardness indentations were conducted and analyzed accordingly. In addition to the ordinary Oliver and Pharr method of nanoindentation data analysis, a quantitative approach for the loading curve analysis is proposed. Using the proposed approach, the description and characterization of the observed indentation size effect through the application of the Meyer's law, and the classical and the modified proportional specimen resistance models as well as the multi-fractal scaling law was conducted and is reported. The load-independent hardness values deduced from our quantitative approach are comparable to the results calculated with conventional methods, especially with the multi-fractal scaling law.
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Preliminary study of the optic radiation in healthy adults by MR diffusion tensor imaging
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Sun Jing; Guo Jing; Xu Han; Jiang Zhen; Xu Xiaoqiu; Shen Junkang; Liu Tao; Gong Zhigang
2009-01-01
Objective: To investigate the distribution of optic radiation fibers and the variation of Meyer loop in healthy adults. Methods: Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images were obtained from 25 healthy volunteers using a 1.5 T MR scanner and postprocessed using the DTI Studio software. Multiple ROIs were used for fiber reconstruction. The distance between the anterior limit of Meyer loop and the temporal tip(MT) and the fraction of anisotropy (FA) at one side were compared with those at the contralateral side by paired t test. Results: Forty-nine optic radiation fibers were successfully reconstructed in 25 volunteers. The value of MT was (43.2±7.7) mm(ranged from 30.6 to 59.7 mm), and coefficient of variation was 18%. The values of MT and FA of optic radiation in the left side were (43.5±8.1) mm, (0.53±0.10) respectively, and those counterparts in the right side were (43.2±7.5) mm and (0.53± 0.07) respectively. There were no significance difference of MT or FA between the two sides (t=0.12, 0.00; P=0.91 and 1.00 respectively). Conclusions: The range of interindividual variation for MT was rather large in healthy volunteers. The preoperative measurement of the MT appears be helpful to predict the risk of the incidence of visual defect and to decrease the incidence of the complication. (authors)
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Page, Stephen J; Hill, Valerie; White, Susan
2013-06-01
To compare the efficacy of a repetitive task-specific practice regimen integrating a portable, electromyography-controlled brace called the 'Myomo' versus usual care repetitive task-specific practice in subjects with chronic, moderate upper extremity impairment. Sixteen subjects (7 males; mean age 57.0 ± 11.02 years; mean time post stroke 75.0 ± 87.63 months; 5 left-sided strokes) exhibiting chronic, stable, moderate upper extremity impairment. Subjects were administered repetitive task-specific practice in which they participated in valued, functional tasks using their paretic upper extremities. Both groups were supervised by a therapist and were administered therapy targeting their paretic upper extremities that was 30 minutes in duration, occurring 3 days/week for eight weeks. One group participated in repetitive task-specific practice entirely while wearing the portable robotic, while the other performed the same activity regimen manually. The upper extremity Fugl-Meyer, Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and Stroke Impact Scale were administered on two occasions before intervention and once after intervention. After intervention, groups exhibited nearly identical Fugl-Meyer score increases of ≈2.1 points; the group using robotics exhibited larger score changes on all but one of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and Stroke Impact Scale subscales, including a 12.5-point increase on the Stroke Impact Scale recovery subscale. Findings suggest that therapist-supervised repetitive task-specific practice integrating robotics is as efficacious as manual practice in subjects with moderate upper extremity impairment.
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Valores personales y compromiso organizacional: más que una simple relación
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Liliana Del Rocío Osorio Jaramillo
2016-11-01
Full Text Available The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between personal values and organizational commitment of a group of officials from an institution of higher education in Bogotá. This research is part of the four-factor model which is proposed by Schwartz (2006 and the three-components model of organizational commitment of Meyer et al (1993. This research was conducted by a correlational study with a sample of 128 officials from executive, professional and assistant levels. In order to collect the data the questionnaires used were Portrait of Schwartz and the Questionnaire of organizational commitment of Meyer et al (1993. Both tools were adapted culturally to ensure linguistic, semantic and cultural equivalence and a pilot study was made with a group of 101 people. The correlation coefficients did not show an association between the variables proposed. The structural equations model showed a very low percentage of variance of the data. An alternative model was found to best explain the relationship of the constructs; in this alternative model three variables emerged, which were analyzed based on different groups of values within two factors: individualism and collectivism. It was concluded that while some authors have identified the relationship between the proposed constructs, this associations complex, because it involves many more variables, and could be more appropriate to analyze the consistency of the values of the subjects and the declared values of the company.
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Pædagogisk arbejde med børn med autisme
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Miðskarð, Jóhannes
2008-01-01
concepts from traditional, stage focused theories of development such as that of Piaget and Leslie's »Theory of Mind«. The heavy emphasis on cognition is discussed and other venues of understanding are presented. Billington (2000) and Meyer (2003) maintain that autism is better understood as either......Working with autistic children, and studying psychology made the author wonder abt. the terms used to describe autism and their consequences. Adhering to Burman's definition of deconstruction (1994), he discusses the problem of trying to understand the development of the autistic child, using...
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Bio-Inspired Sensing and Imaging of Polarization Information in Nature
2008-05-04
Neurobiology of polarization vision,” Trends Neu- rosci. 12, 353–359 (1989). 32. R. Wehner, “‘Matched filters’: neural models of the external world,” J...degrees of polarization,” J. Exp. Biol. 199, 1467–1475 (1996). 47. T. Labhart and E. P. Meyer, Neural mechanisms in insect navigation: polarization...mm by 0.3–0.5 in. 7.6–12.7 mm while a typical ight bulb is 3 in. 76 mm in diameter and needs to be laced at least 7 in. 177.8 mm from the
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Meiser, Jerome; Urbassek, Herbert M., E-mail: urbassek@rhrk.uni-kl.de [Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße, D-67663 Kaiserslautern (Germany)
2016-08-15
Using classical molecular dynamics simulations and the Meyer-Entel interaction potential, we study the martensitic transformation pathway in a pure iron bi-crystal containing a symmetric tilt grain boundary. Upon cooling the system from the austenitic phase, the transformation starts with the nucleation of the martensitic phase near the grain boundary in a plate-like arrangement. The Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relations are fulfilled at the plates. During further cooling, the plates expand and merge. In contrast to the orientation relation in the plate structure, the complete transformation proceeds via the Pitsch pathway.
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Numerical simulation of evolutionary erodible bedforms using the particle finite element method
Bravo, Rafael; Becker, Pablo; Ortiz, Pablo
2017-07-01
This paper presents a numerical strategy for the simulation of flows with evolutionary erodible boundaries. The fluid equations are fully resolved in 3D, while the sediment transport is modelled using the Exner equation and solved with an explicit Lagrangian procedure based on a fixed 2D mesh. Flow and sediment are coupled in geometry by deforming the fluid mesh in the vertical direction and in velocities with the experimental sediment flux computed using the Meyer Peter Müller model. A comparison with real experiments on channels is performed, giving good agreement.
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Benítez Giles, Susana
2017-01-01
A los estudiantes de la Maestría en Ingeniería de la Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, integrada por 21 alumnos, se le aplicó el Emotional Intelligence Test de Meyer-Salovey-Caruso (MSCEIT) que evalúa el Coeficiente de Inteligencia Emocional (CIE) a través de los siguientes cuatro criterios: percepción, comprensión y manejo de las emociones y si éstas son utilizadas para facilitar el pensamiento. Para dicha población, se indag...
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Velázquez Vázquez, Daniel
2017-01-01
A la población de alumnos de la Maestría en Arquitectura de la Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Aragón de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), se le aplicó el Emotional Intelligence Test de Meyer-Salovey-Caruso (MSCEIT) que evalúa el Coeficiente de Inteligencia Emocional (CIE) a través de los siguientes cuatro criterios: percepción, comprensión y manejo de las emociones y si éstas son utilizadas para facilitar el pensamiento. Asimismo, se les aplicó los instr...
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What a relief! A role for dopamine in positive (but not negative) valence.
Sharpe, Melissa J
2018-02-27
We have long known that dopamine encodes the predictive relationship between cues and rewards. But what about relief learning? In this issue of Neuropsychopharmacology, Meyer et al. show that the same circuits encoding rewarding events also encode relief from aversive events. And this appears to be in a manner distinct from encoding of the aversive event itself. So does dopamine only contribute to learning about positive events? And are these events encoded in the same way regardless of how that positive experience came about? Not quite. Turns out, the devil is in the details.
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Logos, ethos e pathos: “três lados” da mesma moeda.
Galinari, Melliandro Mendes
2014-01-01
Este artigo possui o objetivo de construir uma reflexão sobre a inter-relação das provas retóricas - logos, ethos e pathos - no âmbito disciplinar da Análise do Discurso, dialogando com a tradição retórica, com a Sofística e com autores modernos que se ocupam do assunto, tais como Ruth Amossy, Michel Meyer, Christian Plantin e outros. Para tanto, parte-se do pressuposto de que, mais do que categorias estáveis e demarcáveis teoricamen...
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Storming a Citadel: Mathematical Theory and Experimental Practice
Sichau, Christian
2006-09-01
Based upon a comparison of the viscosity experiments of James Clerk Maxwell (1831 1879) and Oskar Emil Meyer (1834 1909) in the 1860s, I argue that mathematical theory plays a significant role in both aspects of experimental practice, the design and construction of an experimental apparatus and the transformation of the observed experimental data into the value of a physical quantity. I argue further that Maxwell’s and Meyer’s evaluation of each other’s theoretical and experimental work depended significantly on the mathematical tools they employed in their theories.
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Meiser, Jerome; Urbassek, Herbert M.
2016-01-01
Using classical molecular dynamics simulations and the Meyer-Entel interaction potential, we study the martensitic transformation pathway in a pure iron bi-crystal containing a symmetric tilt grain boundary. Upon cooling the system from the austenitic phase, the transformation starts with the nucleation of the martensitic phase near the grain boundary in a plate-like arrangement. The Kurdjumov-Sachs orientation relations are fulfilled at the plates. During further cooling, the plates expand and merge. In contrast to the orientation relation in the plate structure, the complete transformation proceeds via the Pitsch pathway.
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Virulence, immunogenicity and vaccine properties of a novel chimeric pestivirus
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Rasmussen, Thomas Bruun; Uttenthal, Åse; Reimann, Ilona
2007-01-01
A chimeric pestivirus of border disease virus Gifhorn and bovine viral diarrhea virus CP7 (Meyers et al., 1996) was constructed. Virulence, immunogenicity and vaccine properties of the chimeric virus were studied in a vaccination–challenge experiment in pigs. The chimeric virus proved...... to be avirulent and neither chimeric virus nor viral RNA was detected in serum after vaccination. The safety of the vaccine was tested by horizontal transmission to sentinel pigs, which remained uninfected. The vaccine efficacy was examined by challenge infection with classical swine fever virus (CSFV) Eystrup...
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Challenging institutional logics in Gourmet
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Nickelsen, Niels Christian Mossfeldt; Scheuer, John Damm
2015-01-01
is a conceptualization of the way in which an institutional entrepreneur initiates change in an organizational field. More specifically the paper discusses a system of concepts offered by Svejenova et al. (2007). According to Svejenova et al. the Spanish haute cuisine chef of the 3 star Michelin restaurant El Bulli......, Ferran Adria initiates field level change by focusing on technical development of haute cuisine through research and development and a systematic and almost scientific approach to gastronomic development. The study of the introduction of the NNK and Claus Meyer shows in contrast that an institutional...
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Vishwakiran, Y.; Thakur, N.L.; Raghukumar, S.; Yennawar, P.L.; Anil, A.C.
. (Meyers) Yusoff, Read, E. B. G. Jones et S. T. Moss 2 416 4 Arenariomyces trifurcatus Höhnk 22 4 5 Bathyascus tropicalis Kohlm. 2 44 6 Bathyascus vermisporus Kohlm. 8 4 2 7 Corollospora pulchella Kohlm., I. Schmidt et Nair. 8 2 8 8 Dactylospora haliotrepha... faster growth and multiplication rate dur- ing the early stage of wood decomposition (Cooke Distribution of fungi and wood-borers in the coastal tropical waters of Goa, India 53 54 Y. Vishwakiran et al. and Rayner 1984). Such fungi face a competition from...
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Ray, Dwijesh; Misra, S.; Banerjee, R.; Weis, D.
., 1989) and the dynamics of crystallization of plutonic rocks (Bloomer et al., 1989; Meyer et al., 1989). The recovery of gabbroic rocks is mostly restricted to major transform faults or fracture zones transecting mid-ocean ridges, e.g., Mid... gabbro of Indian Ocean Ridge System (Fig 1) is ODP leg 118 from SWIR (Dick et al., 2002; Coogan et al, 2001). Gabbro from Leg 179 (ODP Hole 735B from Atlantis II fracture zone, Dick et al., 2000) and Leg 179 (Hole 1105A) near Leg 118 have also been...
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Design and analysis of spiral inductors
Haobijam, Genemala
2013-01-01
The book addresses the critical challenges faced by the ever-expanding wireless communication market and the increasing frequency of operation due to continuous innovation of high performance integrated passive devices. The challenges like low quality factor, design complexity, manufacturability, processing cost, etc., are studied with examples and specifics. Silicon on-chip inductor was first reported in 1990 by Nguyen and Meyer in a 0.8 µm silicon bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology (BiCMOS). Since then, there has been an enormous progress in the research on the perfo
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Hu, Liangbing; Wu, Hui; Cui, Yi
2010-05-01
We report carbon nanotube thin film-based supercapacitors fabricated with printing methods, where electrodes and separators are integrated into single sheets of commercial paper. Carbon nanotube films are easily printed with Meyer rod coating or ink-jet printing onto a paper substrate due to the excellent ink absorption of paper. A specific capacity of 33 F/g at a high specific power of 250 000 W/kg is achieved with an organic electrolyte. Such a lightweight paper-based supercapacitor could be used to power paper electronics such as transistors or displays.
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Fashion Research at Design Schools
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Skjold, Else
2008-01-01
The report “Fashion Research at Design Schools” (2008), which was commissioned by Institute for Fashion and Textiles at Designskolen Kolding, appoints the potentials and challenges in relation to the ongoing academization of design schools, with a specific focus on fashion research. The key......, interactionistic interviews (Järvinen and Mik-Meyer, 2005) with key persons from the respective research- and fashion departments from eight selected design schools in Holland, England and USA. The analysis of each case is inspired by Edgar E. Schein’s levels of culture (Schein 1994), that aims to pinpoint both...
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"Berlinale" esimene poolaeg / Endel Link
Link, Endel
2004-01-01
Berliini filmifestivali mängufilme - "Tunnistaja" ("Svjedoci") : režissöör Vinko Breshan : Horvaatia, "Country of My Skull" : režissöör John Boorman : Suurbritannia, "Koletis" ("Monster") : režissöör Patty Jenkins : Ameerika Ühendriigid, "Kadunud" ("The Missing") : režissöör Ron Howard : Ameerika Ühendriigid, "Mida süda soovib" ("Something's Gotta Give") : režissöör Nancy Meyer ja "Ilus maa" ("Beautiful Country") : režissöör Hans Petter Moland : Ameerika Ühendriigid - Norra
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Lauren Betina Veronese
1997-01-01
Full Text Available The morphology of the axial skeleton -pressacral and sacral regions - of the nine genera of Teiidae Boulenger, 1885 comprising Ameiva Meyer, 1795, Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838, Cnemidophorus Wagler, 1830, Crocodilurus Spix, 1825, Dicrodon Duméril & Bibron, 1839, Dracaena Daudin, 1802, Kenlropyx Spix, 1825, Teius Merrem, 1820 and Tupinambis Daudin, 1803 is here analysed under a comparative approach. The study is in a generic levei, and the principal conclusions reter to differences on the total number of vertebrae and some aspects of the ribs, especially their insertion and presence.
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Arab-Islamic History and the Orientalizing Imagination
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Muhammed A. al-Da‘mi
2000-12-01
Full Text Available While such critics of Orientalism as Said and Meyer have shown, the inescapable intellectual frameworks which imprisoned the Western mind in its treatment of the East, this essay specifies "historical" Orientalism as a touchstone to deepen and sharpen our awareness, not only of the mechanic of Orientalist thinking, but also of the various motives and hidden compulsions that made the shapers of public opinion tackle the Arab-Islamic past. An array of writings is analysed and investigated to come out with fresh conclusions that invite inspiring and dialectic-developing arguments.
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Sharif, F.; Ghulam, S.; Malik, A.N.
2017-01-01
To compare the effectiveness of functional electrical stimulation (FES) versus conventional electrical stimulation in gait rehabilitation of patients with stroke for finding the most appropriate problem-oriented treatment for foot drop patients in a shorter time period. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Place and Duration of Study:Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rawalpindi, from July to December 2016. Methodology: Subjects with foot drop due to stroke were allotted randomly into 1 of 2 groups receiving standard rehabilitation with Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) or Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS). FES was applied on tibialis anterior 30 minutes/day, five days/week for six weeks. EMS was also applied on the tibialis anterior five days/week for six weeks. Outcome measures included Fugl-Meyer Assessment Scale, Modified Ashworth Scale, Berg Balance Scale (BBS), Time Up and Go Test (TUG) and Gait Dynamic Index (GDI). They were recorded at baseline, after 3 and 6 weeks. Pre- and post-treatment scores were analyzed between two groups on SPSS-20. Results: After six weeks of intervention, significant improvement was recorded in Fugl-Meyer Assessment score (p<0.001), modified Ashworth Scale score (p=0.027), Berg Balance Scale score (p<0.001), Time Up and Go Test (p<0.001) and Gait Dynamic Index (p=0.012) of the group subjected to FES. Conclusion: Gait training with FES is more effective than EMS in improving mobility, balance, gait performance and reducing spasticity in stroke patients. The research will help clinicians to select appropriate treatment of foot drop in stroke patients. (author)
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An augmented reality system for upper-limb post-stroke motor rehabilitation: a feasibility study.
Assis, Gilda Aparecida de; Corrêa, Ana Grasielle Dionísio; Martins, Maria Bernardete Rodrigues; Pedrozo, Wendel Goes; Lopes, Roseli de Deus
2016-08-01
To determine the clinical feasibility of a system based on augmented reality for upper-limb (UL) motor rehabilitation of stroke participants. A physiotherapist instructed the participants to accomplish tasks in augmented reality environment, where they could see themselves and their surroundings, as in a mirror. Two case studies were conducted. Participants were evaluated pre- and post-intervention. The first study evaluated the UL motor function using Fugl-Meyer scale. Data were compared using non-parametric sign tests and effect size. The second study used the gain of motion range of shoulder flexion and abduction assessed by computerized biophotogrammetry. At a significance level of 5%, Fugl-Meyer scores suggested a trend for greater UL motor improvement in the augmented reality group than in the other. Moreover, effect size value 0.86 suggested high practical significance for UL motor rehabilitation using the augmented reality system. System provided promising results for UL motor rehabilitation, since enhancements have been observed in the shoulder range of motion and speed. Implications for Rehabilitation Gain of range of motion of flexion and abduction of the shoulder of post-stroke patients can be achieved through an augmented reality system containing exercises to promote the mental practice. NeuroR system provides a mental practice method combined with visual feedback for motor rehabilitation of chronic stroke patients, giving the illusion of injured upper-limb (UL) movements while the affected UL is resting. Its application is feasible and safe. This system can be used to improve UL rehabilitation, an additional treatment past the traditional period of the stroke patient hospitalization and rehabilitation.
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Sun, Runjie; Tian, Liang; Fang, Xiaoli; Du, Xiaozheng; Zhu, Bowen; Song, Zhongyang; Xu, Xuan; Qin, Xiaoguang
2017-04-12
To compare the difference in the clinical efficacy on post-stroke upper limb spasmodic hemiplegia between the combined therapy of jingou diaoyu needling technique and Bobath technology and simple Bobath technology. Sixty patients were randomized into an observation group and a control group, 30 cases in each one. The usual medication of neurological internal medicine was used in the two groups. In the control group, Bobath facilitation technology was applied to the rehabilitation training. In the observation group, on the basis of the treatment as the control group, jingou diaoyu needling technique was used to stimulate Zhongfu (LU 1), Tianfu (LU 3), Chize (LU 5), Quchi (LI 11), Jianshi (PC 5) and Daling (PC 7). The treatment was given once a day; 5 treatments made one session and totally 4-week treatment was required in the two groups. The modified Ashworth scale, the modified Fugle-Meyer assessment (FMA) and the Barthel index (BI) were adopted to evaluate the muscular tension, the upper limb motor function and the activities of daily living (ADL) before and after treatment in the two groups. The clinical efficacy was compared between the two groups. Compared with those before treatment, the modified Ashworth scale, Fugl-Meyer score and BI score were all improved after treatment in the two groups (all P Bobath therapy achieve the superior efficacy on post-stroke upper limb spasmodic hemiplegia as compared with the simple application Bobath therapy. This combined treatment effectively relieve spasmodic state and improve the upper limb motor function and the activities of daily living.
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Carl Foster, Courtney V. Farland, Flavia Guidotti, Michelle Harbin, Brianna Roberts, Jeff Schuette, Andrew Tuuri, Scott T. Doberstein, John P. Porcari
2015-12-01
Full Text Available High intensity interval training (HIIT has become an increasingly popular form of exercise due to its potentially large effects on exercise capacity and small time requirement. This study compared the effects of two HIIT protocols vs steady-state training on aerobic and anaerobic capacity following 8-weeks of training. Fifty-five untrained college-aged subjects were randomly assigned to three training groups (3x weekly. Steady-state (n = 19 exercised (cycle ergometer 20 minutes at 90% of ventilatory threshold (VT. Tabata (n = 21 completed eight intervals of 20s at 170% VO2max/10s rest. Meyer (n = 15 completed 13 sets of 30s (20 min @ 100% PVO2 max/ 60s recovery, average PO = 90% VT. Each subject did 24 training sessions during 8 weeks. Results: There were significant (p < 0.05 increases in VO2max (+19, +18 and +18% and PPO (+17, +24 and +14% for each training group, as well as significant increases in peak (+8, + 9 and +5% & mean (+4, +7 and +6% power during Wingate testing, but no significant differences between groups. Measures of the enjoyment of the training program indicated that the Tabata protocol was significantly less enjoyable (p < 0.05 than the steady state and Meyer protocols, and that the enjoyment of all protocols declined (p < 0.05 across the duration of the study. The results suggest that although HIIT protocols are time efficient, they are not superior to conventional exercise training in sedentary young adults.
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Jiang Ningyi; Lu Xianping; Liu Xingguang; Xiao Xiuhong; Xu Jianxing
2003-01-01
Objective: To investigate the therapeutic effects of motor therapy on hemiplegia with SPECT brain perfusion imaging. Methods: The study population consisted of 59 patients with cerebral infarction, and all patients were treated with motor therapy. Among them, 30 cases were assigned to undertake single bridging exercise and 29 cases passive exercise. SPECT brain perfusion imaging was performed before and after motor therapy under the same condition, and the regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) changes were compared and analysed with visual and semi-quantitative methods; in addition, the relationship between rCBF changes and scores of Fugl-Meyer or Barthel index were also analysed. Results: After motor therapy, various degrees of radioactivity increase were compared with the pretreatment radioactivity hypoperfusion in patients with cerebral infarction, and showed that motor therapy could evidently improve rCBF of regional hypoperfusion. The posttreatment rCBF was higher than the pretreatment level (P<0.01), and the rCBF of group of single bridging was higher than that of passive exercise group. And the changes of rCBF were all significant after motor therapy. In addition, the variation of the rCBF after motor therapy was positively correlated with the variation of Fugl-Meyer and Barthel score. Conclusions: SPECT brain perfusion imaging can serve as a useful method for evaluating the effectiveness of motor therapy in cerebral infarction rehabilitation. The single bridging exercise and the passive exercise are both beneficial to brain rehabilitation, but the former improves the rCBF in lesions better than the later does
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Rowe, Justin B; Chan, Vicky; Ingemanson, Morgan L; Cramer, Steven C; Wolbrecht, Eric T; Reinkensmeyer, David J
2017-08-01
Robots that physically assist movement are increasingly used in rehabilitation therapy after stroke, yet some studies suggest robotic assistance discourages effort and reduces motor learning. To determine the therapeutic effects of high and low levels of robotic assistance during finger training. We designed a protocol that varied the amount of robotic assistance while controlling the number, amplitude, and exerted effort of training movements. Participants (n = 30) with a chronic stroke and moderate hemiparesis (average Box and Blocks Test 32 ± 18 and upper extremity Fugl-Meyer score 46 ± 12) actively moved their index and middle fingers to targets to play a musical game similar to GuitarHero 3 h/wk for 3 weeks. The participants were randomized to receive high assistance (causing 82% success at hitting targets) or low assistance (55% success). Participants performed ~8000 movements during 9 training sessions. Both groups improved significantly at the 1-month follow-up on functional and impairment-based motor outcomes, on depression scores, and on self-efficacy of hand function, with no difference between groups in the primary endpoint (change in Box and Blocks). High assistance boosted motivation, as well as secondary motor outcomes (Fugl-Meyer and Lateral Pinch Strength)-particularly for individuals with more severe finger motor deficits. Individuals with impaired finger proprioception at baseline benefited less from the training. Robot-assisted training can promote key psychological outcomes known to modulate motor learning and retention. Furthermore, the therapeutic effectiveness of robotic assistance appears to derive at least in part from proprioceptive stimulation, consistent with a Hebbian plasticity model.
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Vega Adriana
2008-07-01
Full Text Available Philip Meyer (2004 se atrevió a decir que al ritmo actual de disminución de lectores, en el 2040 desaparecerá el último periódico impreso. Otras especulaciones infieren que en el futuro el periodismo no será hecho por periodistas y hay quienes vaticinan que en el 2015, Google tendrá el monopolio de toda la información que circule en la red. Estos presagios, más que a opinar si resultarán ciertos o no, a lo que deben llevarnos es a una reflexión sobre la influencia de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC en los cambios que se observan en los últimos años en los medios tradicionales, en los fundamentos del trabajo de los periodistas y en el manejo de la información a nivel global. Philip Meyer (2004 dared saying that due to the current decreasing rhythm of readers, the last printed newspaper would disappear on year 2040. Some people infer that future journalism would not be made by professional journalists, whereas others foreshadow that in 2015, Google will own the whole monopoly of internet information. More than telling if these premonitions would or wouldn’t come true, what they should lead us into, is to think carefully on the major influence that information and communication technologies (ICT has had on the change observed on traditional media, on the bases of journalism and on Global managing information.
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Sudbrack, Simone; Barbosa, Fernanda P; Mattiello, Rita; Booij, Linda; Estorgato, Geovana R; Dutra, Moisés S; Assunção, Fabiana D de; Nunes, Magda L
2018-04-22
To validate the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Family Environment Assessment questionnaire (Inventaire du Milieu Familial). The validation process was carried out in two stages. First, translation and back-translation were performed, and in the second phase, the questionnaire was applied in 72 families of children between 0 and 24 months for the validation process. The tool consists of the following domains: mother's communication ability; behavior; organization of the physical and temporal environment; collection/quantity of toys; maternal attitude of constant attention toward her baby; diversification of stimuli; baby's behavior. The following was performed for the scale validation: 1 - content analysis (judgment); 2 - construct analysis (factorial analysis - Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin, Bartlett, and Pearson's correlation tests); 3 - criterion analysis (calculation of Cronbach's alpha coefficient, intraclass correlations, and split-half correlations). The mean age of the children was 9±6.7 months, and of these, 35 (48.6%) were males. Most correlations between items and domains were significant. In the factorial analysis of the scale, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin values were 0.76, Bartlett's test showed a p-value<0.001, and correlation between items and domains showed a p-value<0.01. Regarding the validity, Cronbach's alpha was 0.92 (95% CI: 0.89-0.94). The intraclass correlation among the evaluators was 0.97 (0.96-0.98) and split-half correlations, r: 0.60, with p<0.01. The Portuguese version of the Inventaire du Milieu Familial showed good to excellent performance regarding the assessed psychometric properties. Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda.
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Blanco-Cerro, Susana
2013-01-01
Objetivo. Estudiar la relación entre la memoria visual a corto y largo plazo, y la memoria verbal respecto al rendimiento académico en distintas áreas educativas en alumnos del ter-cer ciclo de Educación Primaria. Metodología. Para analizar las variables implicadas se ha aplicado el Test de la Figura Compleja de Rey (Meyer, 1995) y el Test de Memoria Auditiva Inmediata (Cordero, 2009) a una muestra de 30 alumnos de entre 10 y 12 años de Educa-ción Primaria. Para realizar los análisis estadíst...
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The Bauhaus, from Dessau to Ulm: essays on this high yield educational space
Añon Abajas, Rosa María
2010-01-01
RESUMEN Revisando la Bauhaus desde su consolidación y su clímax en Dessau, se enuncia la necesidad de hacer una observación más detenida de esta arquitectura en su lugar y alguna consideración sobre cómo se aprovecha el edificio como instrumento didáctico. Se repasan antecedentes y sobre todo consecuentes que reconocen el edificio de Dessau como una obra ejemplar. A través de la obra de Hannes Meyer, se observan discrepancias con la idea de arquitectura de Gropius y se encuentra el enlace con...
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LA BAUHAUS, DE DESSAU A ULM: ENSAYOS SOBRE EL ESPACIO DOCENTE DE ALTO RENDIMIENTO
Rosa María Añón Abajas
2010-01-01
RESUMEN Revisando la Bauhaus desde su consolidación y su clímax en Dessau, se enuncia la necesidad de hacer una observación más detenida de esta arquitectura en su lugar y alguna consideración sobre cómo se aprovecha el edificio como instrumento didáctico. Se repasan antecedentes y sobre todo consecuentes que reconocen el edificio de Dessau como una obra ejemplar. A través de la obra de Hannes Meyer, se observan discrepancias con la idea de arquitectura de Gropius y se encuentra el enlace con...
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Notes on winter feeding behavior and molt in Wilson's phalaropes
Burger, J.; Howe, M.
1975-01-01
Wilson's Phalaropes, Steganopus tricolor, migrate in late summer from the prairie regions of North America to their wintering grounds in the highlands of Peru and the inland and coastal waters of Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina (Holmes 1939, Meyer de Schauensee 1970). Reports on these birds from their wintering habitat are few. This paper describes numbers, feeding behavior, and molt of Wilson's Phalaropes wintering in a freshwater marsh in central Argentina. Fieldwork in Argentina was conducted by the senior author. The junior author analyzed molt patterns of birds collected there and added data he collected in North Dakota in 1968 and 1969.
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Fission gas release from oxide fuels at high burnups (AWBA development program)
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Dollins, C.C.
1981-02-01
The steady state gas release, swelling and densification model previously developed for oxide fuels has been modified to accommodate the slow transients in temperature, temperature gradient, fission rate and pressure that are encountered in normal reactor operation. The gas release predictions made by the model were then compared to gas release data on LMFBR-EBRII fuels obtained by Dutt and Baker and reported by Meyer, Beyer, and Voglewede. Good agreement between the model and the data was found. A comparison between the model and three other sets of gas release data is also shown, again with good agreement
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Wolves trigger a trophic cascade to berries as alternative food for grizzly bears.
Ripple, William J; Beschta, Robert L; Fortin, Jennifer K; Robbins, Charles T
2015-05-01
This is a Forum article in response to: Barber-Meyer, S. (2015) Trophic cascades from wolves to grizzly bears or changing abundance of bears and alternate foods? Journal of Animal Ecology, 83, doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12338. We used multiple data sets and study areas as well as several lines of evidence to investigate potential trophic linkages in Yellowstone National Park. Our results suggest that a trophic cascade from wolves to elk to berry production to berry consumption by grizzly bears may now be underway in the Park. © 2015 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology © 2015 British Ecological Society.
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Edward Cullen: el nuevo concepto de vampiro
Graillet Carrasco, Yolanda de
2010-01-01
El vampiro, como esa parte de sombra del inconsciente, evoluciona de diablo a ángel como se manifiesta en Crepúsculo de Stephenie Meyer. Para analizar este proceso, se traza el paso del vampiro moderno al post-moderno a través de tres figuras básicas: Drácula, Lestat y Edward Cullen, con la ayuda de los conceptos de Jung de sombra y héroe, y la teoría del cerebro triuno de McLean. Sangre, alma y sexo se desarrollan con este nuevo concepto de vampiro que comienza a revelar su reflejo para deja...
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Radio-adjuvant effects of ginsan on murine breast carcinoma xenografted model
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Shim, Ji Young; Son, Hyeog Jin; Kim, Hyung Doo; Han, Young Soo; Yun, Yeon Sook; Song, Jie Young [Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
2005-07-01
In a number of studies, polysaccharide extracted from Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer, ginsan has been demonstrated to be a potent promising biological response modifier (BRM), including proliferation of lymphocyte, generation of lymphokine activated killer cells, and production of several cytokines. Macrophages are the first line of defense to infections or pathogens in host innate immunity. In addition, it plays a prominent role as a professional antigen presenting cells to trigger cellular immunity. In the light of that, the current study was designed to evaluate whether ginsan exhibits anti-tumor effect as well as synergistic function with chemo- or radio-therapy.
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Determination of oxygen diffusion kinetics during thin film ruthenium oxidation
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Coloma Ribera, R., E-mail: r.colomaribera@utwente.nl; Kruijs, R. W. E. van de; Yakshin, A. E.; Bijkerk, F. [MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede (Netherlands)
2015-08-07
In situ X-ray reflectivity was used to reveal oxygen diffusion kinetics for thermal oxidation of polycrystalline ruthenium thin films and accurate determination of activation energies for this process. Diffusion rates in nanometer thin RuO{sub 2} films were found to show Arrhenius behaviour. However, a gradual decrease in diffusion rates was observed with oxide growth, with the activation energy increasing from about 2.1 to 2.4 eV. Further exploration of the Arrhenius pre-exponential factor for diffusion process revealed that oxidation of polycrystalline ruthenium joins the class of materials that obey the Meyer-Neldel rule.
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Predictors of Suicidal Ideation in a Statewide Sample of Transgender Individuals.
Rood, Brian A; Puckett, Julia A; Pantalone, David W; Bradford, Judith B
2015-09-01
Transgender individuals experience violence and discrimination, which, in addition to gender transitioning, are established correlates of psychological distress. In a statewide sample of 350 transgender adults, we investigated whether a history of violence and discrimination increased the odds of reporting lifetime suicidal ideation (SI) and whether differences in SI were predicted by gender transition status. Violence, discrimination, and transition status significantly predicted SI. Compared with individuals with no plans to transition, individuals with plans or who were living as their identified gender reported greater odds of lifetime SI. We discuss implications for SI disparities using Meyer's minority stress model.
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Who's #1? The Science of Rating and Ranking
Langville, Amy N
2012-01-01
A website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings influence everything from the clothes we wear to the movies we select on Netflix. Ratings and rankings are everywhere, but how exactly do they work? Who's #1? offers an engaging and accessible account of how scientific rating and ranking methods are created and applied to a variety of uses. Amy Langville and Carl Meyer provide the first comprehensive overview of the mathemat
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Mrachacz-Kersting, Natalie; Jiang, Ning; Stevenson, Andrew James Thomas
2016-01-01
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have the potential to improve functionality in chronic stoke patients when applied over a large number of sessions. Here, we evaluate the effect and the underlying mechanisms of three BCI training sessions in a double-blind-sham-controlled design. The applied BCI......-associative group. Fugl-Meyer motor scores (0.8±0.46 point difference p=0.01), foot (but not finger) tapping frequency, and 10-m walking speed improved significantly for the BCIassociative group, indicating clinically relevant improvements. For the BCI as applied here, the precise coupling between the brain command...
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Technology has been an all-important and defining element within the arts throughout the 20th century, and it has fundamentally changed the ways in which we produce and consume music. With this Focus we investigate the latest developments in the digital domain – and their pervasiveness and rapid...... production and reception of contemporary music and sound art. With ‘Digital’ we present four composers' very different answers to how technology impact their work. To Juliana Hodkinson it has become an integral part of her sonic writing. Rudiger Meyer analyses the relationships between art and design and how...
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DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
Petersen, Karen Bjerg
2006-01-01
Etienne Wenger. The work by Jean Lave from 1988 (Lave, 1988) based on anthropological field studies in Brazil and Liberia as well as later works by Lave & Wenger (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Chaiklin and Lave, 1993; Wenger, 1998; Wenger, McDermott, R. and W. Snyder, 2002) on situated learning and social...... and scaffolded learning (Wood, Bruner & Ross, 1976; Bruner, 1985; Bruner 1996; Kaye, 1992; Meyer, 1993; Sorensen, 1999) and ?learning in communities of practice? have deeply inspired and to a certain degree become a sort of theoretical and practical framework in Denmark with respect to development of web based...
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Incidencia, caracterización y epidemiología del virus de la tristeza de los cítricos en Chile
BESOAIN CANALES, JIMENA ALEJANDRA
2011-01-01
El virus de la tristeza de los cítricos (CTV) ha causado millonarias pérdidas a la citricultura a nivel mundial. En Chile, la situación real era desconocida aunque se había reportado su presencia en limoneros Meyer, los que fueron erradicados. El objetivo de esta tesis fue analizar la situación actual de CTV en Chile, realizar una amplia prospección y estimar su incidencia, estudiar su epidemiología y realizar una caracterización biológica, serológica y molecular de 100 aislados chilenos de C...