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Comparison of cardiovascular risk factors between Sri Lankans living in Kandy and Oslo.
Tennakoon, Sampath U B; Kumar, Bernadette N; Nugegoda, Danasela B; Meyer, Haakon E
2010-10-29
South Asians living in western countries are known to have unfavourable cardiovascular risk profiles. Studies indicate migrants are worse off when compared to those living in country of origin. The purpose of this study was to compare selected cardiovascular risk factors between migrant Sri Lankans living in Oslo, Norway and Urban dwellers from Kandy, Sri Lanka. Data on non fasting serum lipids, blood pressure, anthropometrics and socio demographics of Sri Lankan Tamils from two almost similar population based cross sectional studies in Oslo, Norway between 2000 and 2002 (1145 participants) and Kandy, Sri Lanka in 2005 (233 participants) were compared. Combined data were analyzed using linear regression analyses. Men and women in Oslo had higher HDL cholesterol. Men and women from Kandy had higher Total/HDL cholesterol ratios. Mean waist circumference and body mass index was higher in Oslo. Smoking among men was low (19.2% Oslo, 13.1% Kandy, P = 0.16). None of the women smoked. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure was significantly higher in Kandy than in Oslo. Our comparison showed unexpected differences in risk factors between Sri Lankan migrants living in Oslo and those living in Kandy Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans in Oslo had favorable lipid profiles and blood pressure levels despite being more obese.
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The triple-axis neutron spectrometer KANDI III and measurement of phonons in copper
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Melamud, M.; Pinto, H.; Shaked, H.
1976-12-01
The acoustic phonon dispersion relations of copper were measured using the recently installed triple-axis neutron spectrometer KANDI III. A description of KANDI III and its peripherals is given in this work. The theory of dispersion relations and their measurement using neutron inelastic diffraction are briefly discussed. Raw data and results for copper are presented and compared with the data and results found in the literature
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Tennakoon, Sampath U B; Kumar, Bernadette N; Meyer, Haakon E
2015-03-01
Sri Lankans in Oslo have previously been shown to have lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with those in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Here we present lifestyle risk factors for cardiovascular diseases: frequency and type of fat consumed, frequency of fruit and vegetable intake, alcohol consumption, and leisure time physical activity between 1145 Sri Lankans living in Oslo and 678 Tamils and Sinhalese Sri Lankans living in Kandy as possible explanatory factors for the differences observed. Those in Oslo were consuming healthier fats and reported higher levels of physical activity but frequency of vegetable and fruit consumption was lower. Alcohol consumption among women was negligible. Type of fats consumed might be protective for Oslo group compared with predominantly saturated fat diet in Kandy. Higher leisure time physical activity may also be protective for the Oslo group. Higher frequency of consumption of vegetables and fruits may be beneficial in Kandy. © 2013 APJPH.
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Chen, Fei; Chen, Xiu-Zhen; Su, Xiao-Yun; Qin, Li-Na; Huang, Zhen-Bang; Tao, Yong; Dong, Zhi-Yang
2015-10-01
Eukaryotic mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play crucial roles in transducing environmental and developmental signals inside the cell and regulating gene expression, however, the roles of MAPKs remain largely unknown in Trichoderma reesei. T. reesei ime2 (TrIme2) encodes an Ime2-like MAPK in T. reesei. The deletion of the TrIme2 gene led to 90% increase in cellulase activity against filter paper during earlier period time of cellulase induction as well as the extracellular protein production. Compared to the parent strain, the transcriptional levels of the three major cellulase genes cbh1,cbh2, egl1 were increased by about 9 times, 4 times, 2 times, respectively, at 8 h after cellulase induction in the ΔTrIme2 mutant. In addition, the disruption of TrIme2 caused over 50% reduction of the transcript levels of cellulase transcriptional regulators cre1 and xyr1. TrIme2 functions in regulation of the expression of cellulase gene in T.reesei, and is a good candidate for genetically engineering of T. reesei for higher cellulase production.
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Thurnay, K.
1984-02-01
Kandy is a model developed to describe the essential destructionphenomena of the fuel elements of an LMFBR. The fuel element is assumed to be a voided one, in which the heat generation is still going on. The main process to be modeled is the melting/bursting/evaporating of parts of the fuel pins and the subsequent dislocation of these materials in the coolant channel. The work presented summarizes the assumptions constituting the model, develops the corresponding equations of motion and describes the procedure, turning these into a system of difference-equations ready for coding. As a final part results of a testcase calculation with the Kandy-code are presentend and interpreted. (orig.) [de
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Accurate reactivity void coefficient calculation for the fast spectrum reactor FBR-IME
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Lima, Fabiano P.C.; Vellozo, Sergio de O.; Velozo, Marta J., E-mail: fabianopetruceli@outlook.com, E-mail: vellozo@cbpf.br, E-mail: martajann@gmail.com [Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Secao de Engenharia Militar
2017-07-01
This paper aims to present an accurate calculation of the void reactivity coefficient for the FBR-IME, a fast spectrum reactor in development at the Engineering Military Institute (IME). The main design peculiarity lies in using mixed oxide [MOX - PuO{sub 2} + U(natural uranium)O{sub 2}] as fuel core. For this task, SCALE system was used to calculate the reactivity for several voids distributions generated by bubbles in the sodium beyond its boiling point. The results show that although the void reactivity coefficient is positive and location dependent, they are offset by other feedback effects, resulting in a negative overall coefficient. (author)
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Vyšniauskaitė, Sigrida
2013-01-01
Magistrantūros studijų baigiamajame darbe pateikiami kopūstinės kandies skraidymo bei kenkimo dinamikos vasarinių rapsų ir gūžinių kopūstų pasėliuose tyrimų rezultatai. Darbo objektas – kopūstinė kandis (Plutella xylostella L.) Darbo metodai – kopūstinės kandies skraidymo dinamika tirta naudojant feromonines “delta” tipo gaudykles, 2012 m. gegužės – rugpjūčio mėnesiais, vasarinių rapsų ir ankstyvųjų bei vėlyvųjų baltagūžių kopūstų pasėliuose. Vasarinių rapsų pasėlyje buvo įrengta 12 ga...
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Jayatilleke, A U; Nakahara, S; Dharmaratne, S D; Jayatilleke, A C; Poudel, K C; Jimba, M
2009-04-01
To explore the effects of working conditions of private-bus drivers on bus crashes in Kandy district, Sri Lanka. A case-control study was carried out from August to September 2006. All private-bus drivers registered in Kandy district and involved in crashes reported to the police between November 2005 and April 2006 (n = 63) were selected as cases. Two control groups were included: private-bus drivers working on the same routes as the case drivers (n = 90) and private-bus drivers selected randomly from other routes of the district (n = 111). Data were collected using an anonymous self-administered questionnaire. Associations between working conditions and crashes were analysed using logistic regression. A strong association was observed between drivers' disagreements about working hours and bus crashes (matched controls, adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 5.98, 95% CI 1.02 to 34.90; unmatched controls, AOR 18.74, 95% CI 2.00 to 175.84). A significant association was also observed between low salaries (US$100) and private-bus crashes (matched controls, AOR 1.01, 95% CI 0.40 to 2.54; unmatched controls, AOR 3.09, 95% CI 1.26 to 7.57). Drivers' disagreements about working hours and low salaries were significant risk factors for private-bus crashes in Kandy district, Sri Lanka. Therefore, new legislation for private-bus owners on the working hours and salaries of their drivers to prevent private-bus crashes is recommended.
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FANTAZIJSKI ROMAN IME VETRA V SLOVENSKEM PREVODU
Jus, Suzana
2016-01-01
V zadnjih letih postajajo poleg fantazijske literature za otroke vse bolj priljubljeni tudi fantazijski romani za mladino in odrasle. Tako je lani na police knjigarn prišel slovenski prevod Rothfussovega romana Ime vetra. Ta specifični žanr je za prevajalca posebej trd oreh – zaradi dolžine literarnega dela potrebuje poleg izpiljenega znanja jezika, natančnosti in iznajdljivosti tudi dobršno mero potrpljenja, če želi, da je delo prevedeno dobro in dosledno. Pri tem je pomembno, da skuša poleg...
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DVD-d "Läbi hägu", "Tabamata ime" / Andris Feldmanis
Feldmanis, Andris, 1982-
2007-01-01
Lühiarvustus kuue noorema põlve režissööri R. Sarneti, M. Kõrveri, M. Raati, A. Tammiksaare, J. Kilmi, A. Maimiku lühifilmide kogumikule E. Vilde näidendi "Tabamata ime" ainetel ning Richard Linklateri filmile "Läbi hägu" ("A Scanner Darkly"; USA 2006)
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Erickson, C. M.; Martinez, A.
1993-06-01
The 1992 Integrated Modular Engine (IME) design concept, proposed to the Air Force Space Systems Division as a candidate for a National Launch System (NLS) upper stage, emphasized a detailed Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) procedure which set the basis for its final selection. With a list of engine requirements defined and prioritized by the customer, a QFD procedure was implemented where the characteristics of a number of engine and component configurations were assessed for degree of requirement satisfaction. The QFD process emphasized operability, cost, reliability and performance, with relative importance specified by the customer. Existing technology and near-term advanced technology were surveyed to achieve the required design strategies. In the process, advanced nozzles, advanced turbomachinery, valves, controls, and operational procedures were evaluated. The integrated arrangement of three conventional bell nozzle thrust chambers with two advanced turbopump sets selected as the configuration meeting all requirements was rated significantly ahead of the other candidates, including the Aerospike and horizontal flow nozzle configurations.
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Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
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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2016-03-15
For the Fraunhofer IME, 2015 was an outstanding year, including a record-breaking operating budget of around 33.9 million euro, of which an astounding 97.1% was from third party revenues. Business contracts accounted for around 47% of our turnover, which is also an extraordinary achievement. Our research scientists won awards for excellent results in 2015. For example, one Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2015 went to a team of researchers from Continental Tires Germany GmbH, Fraunhofer IME and the University of Muenster, developing natural rubber from dandelions as a sustainable raw material for the rubber processing industry. This project is an excellent embodiment of the ideals of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and our working approach, our aim being to perform top-level scientific research, to think in terms of ecological and economic sustainability, and to develop original solutions to key challenges. In collaboration with industrial partners, these solutions bring specific products onto the market that strengthen Welcome Germany's standing as a research and business location as well as benefiting society. By developing research activities combining different core competencies, and by integrating perspectives from diverse fields of operation, we can enhance the value of our scientific and regulatory services. The contribution of our research scientists to the drawing up of guidelines and guidance documents is valued on a national and international level. In setting up the new business field 'Sustainable Agricultural Production of Substances', we have linked our competencies in analytics, soil science, active substance research and testing, as well as secondary raw materials and feedstuffs, with the know-how of external partners in plant cultivation and geographical information systems.
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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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Elfita Elfita
2012-06-01
Full Text Available Garcinia griffithii are known as kandis gajah including the Garcinia genus. This plant has been traditionally used by local communities Sarasah Bonta, Lembah Arau, West Sumatra, to treat various diseases including gout. Aspergillus niger was isolated from the tissues of the stem bark of Garcinia griffithii. The fungi strain was identified base on colony and cell morphology characteristic. Aspergillus niger cultured in media 5L Potatos Dextose Broth (PDB for 8 weeks and filtered. Media that already contains secondary metabolites are partitioned using ethyl acetate solvent in 5 L (twice, followed by evaporation. Furthermore, the extract is separated by chromatographic techniques to obtain a pure compound of white crystal. The molecular structures of isolated compounds are determined by spectroscopic methods including IR, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HMQC, HMBC, and COSY. The compound was determined as phenolic (1.
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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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Fraunhofer Institut fuer Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Oekologie (IME). Annual report 2015
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2016-03-01
For the Fraunhofer IME, 2015 was an outstanding year, including a record-breaking operating budget of around 33.9 million euro, of which an astounding 97.1% was from third party revenues. Business contracts accounted for around 47% of our turnover, which is also an extraordinary achievement. Our research scientists won awards for excellent results in 2015. For example, one Joseph von Fraunhofer Prize 2015 went to a team of researchers from Continental Tires Germany GmbH, Fraunhofer IME and the University of Muenster, developing natural rubber from dandelions as a sustainable raw material for the rubber processing industry. This project is an excellent embodiment of the ideals of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and our working approach, our aim being to perform top-level scientific research, to think in terms of ecological and economic sustainability, and to develop original solutions to key challenges. In collaboration with industrial partners, these solutions bring specific products onto the market that strengthen Welcome Germany's standing as a research and business location as well as benefiting society. By developing research activities combining different core competencies, and by integrating perspectives from diverse fields of operation, we can enhance the value of our scientific and regulatory services. The contribution of our research scientists to the drawing up of guidelines and guidance documents is valued on a national and international level. In setting up the new business field 'Sustainable Agricultural Production of Substances', we have linked our competencies in analytics, soil science, active substance research and testing, as well as secondary raw materials and feedstuffs, with the know-how of external partners in plant cultivation and geographical information systems.
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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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Udayanga, Lahiru; Gunathilaka, Nayana; Iqbal, M C M; Pahalagedara, Kusumawathie; Amarasinghe, Upali S; Abeyewickreme, Wimaladharma
2018-02-21
Socio-economic, demographic factors and Knowledge Attitude Practices (KAPs) have been recognized as critical factors that influence the incidence and transmission of dengue epidemics. However, studies that characterize above features of a risk free or low risk population are rare. Therefore, the present study was conducted to characterize the household related, demographic, socio-economic factors and KAPs status of five selected dengue free communities. An analytical cross-sectional survey was conducted on selected demographic, socio-economic, household related and KAPs in five selected dengue free communities living in dengue risk areas within Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka. Household heads of 1000 randomly selected houses were interviewed in this study. Chi-square test for independence, cluster analysis and Principal Coordinates (PCO) analysis were used for data analysis. Knowledge and awareness regarding dengue, (prevention of the vector breeding, bites of mosquitoes, disease symptoms and waste management) and attitudes of the community (towards home gardening, composting, waste management and maintenance of a clean and dengue free environment) are associated with the dengue free status of the study populations. The vector controlling authorities should focus on socio-economic, demographic and KAPs in stimulating the community to cooperate in the integrated vector management strategies to improve vector control and reduce transmission of dengue within Kandy District.
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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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Wickramasinghe, A. P.; Karunaratne, D. G. G. P.; Sivakanesan, R.
2011-05-01
Kandy, a world heritage city, is a rapidly urbanized area in Sri Lanka, with a high population density of ˜6000 hab km -2. As it is centrally located in a small valley of 26 km 2 surrounded by high mountains, emissions from the daily flow of >100,000 vehicles, most are old and poorly maintained, get stagnant over the study area with an increased emphasis on the associated health impacts. Particulate matter (PM) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are considered to be major pollutants in vehicular emissions; while PAHs account for the majority of mutagenic potency of PM. The purpose of the current study is to determine the 8 h average concentrations of ambient PM 10 PAHs at twenty sites distributed in the urban, suburban and rural Kandy. Samples on glass micro fibre filters were collected with a high volume air sampler from July/2008 to March/2009, prepared through standard procedures and analyzed for PAHs by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet visible detection. Further, the type and strength of possible anthropogenic emission sources that cause major perturbations to the atmosphere were assessed by traffic volume (24 h) counts and firewood mass burnt/d at each sampling site, with the subsequent societal impact through quantitative cancer risk assessment. The results can serve as a base set to assess the PAH sources, pollution levels and human exposure. Mean total concentrations of 16 prioritized PAHs (∑PAHs) ranged from 57.43 to 1246.12 ng m -3 with 695.94 ng m -3 in urban heavy traffic locations (U/HT), 105.55 ng m -3 in urban light traffic locations, 337.45 ng m -3 in suburban heavy traffic stations, 154.36 ng m -3 in suburban light traffic stations, 192.48 ng m -3 in rural high firewood burning area and 100.31 ng m -3 in rural low firewood burning area. The mean PM 10 concentration was 129 μg m -3 (55-221 μg m -3); which is beyond the WHO air quality standards. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon signature and the spatial variation
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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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Vest, Matthias
2016-01-01
Li-ion batteries are increasingly used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), electric vehicles (EV) and stationary storage applications. Those applications are significantly different in terms of storage capacity, life cycles and charging times from consumer type batteries such as mobile phones and handheld tools. Naturally, those HEV and EV Li-ion batteries also differ significantly in chemical composition and size. Coherently, a recycling concept has been developed for HEV, EV and stationary storage Li-ion batteries. This concept is based on the existing IME-ACCUREC recycling process for consumer type batteries. This work describes the whole process development including slag design, test series in a lab-scale electric arc furnace and a 1 t scale trial in a top blown rotary converter.
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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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The Annual report 2012/2013 of the Fraunhofer Institute for molecular biology and applied ecology includes the following contributions: (A) Molecular Biology: A technology platform for human monoclonal antibodies against malaria antigens. Reducing the cold sweetening of potatoes during cold storage. BY2 cell - free lysate: an alternative eucaryotic in vitro translation system. Automated animal cell culture. Improvement of resource-use efficiency and productivity in crop plants. Optimizing transient protein expression in tobacco using predictive models. Microbial master-cell banks for biopharmaceutical production. Development and implementation of a plant-produced vaccine against yellow fever. Insect antennae as in situ biosensors. Communal and individual immunity - their relationship in Tribolium castaneum. A Drosophila model for aging. Analysis of insect transcriptomes, Biofuels: Hexanol production with Clostridia. Application of Targeted Proteomics for Metabolic Engineering of Clostridia. The Fraunhofer Future Foundation Malaria Project. Characterization and validation of predictive human experimental pain models. FCR Center for Systems Biotechnology business areas progress report. (B) Applied Ecology: Transformation/dissolution testing of silver nanoparticles. Effect of silver nanoparticles in the context of sewage sludge used in agriculture. Feasibility of biotic ligand models for routine monitoring. Estimating reasonable application dates related to BBCH crop development stages. Bioconcentration studies with the freshwater amphipod Hyalella azteca. Fish life cycle tests: Static vs. flow-through exposure. Vulnerable fish species for risk assessment of pesticides in Europe. Ecotoxicological testing of armor stones in mesocosms. The effect of wild yeast in traditional wines. Lifestock metabolism studies at Fraunhofer IME. Column generated concentrations of highly-lipophilic test substances.
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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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Fan, Jindai; Zeng, Zhiliang; Mai, Kaijie; Yang, Yu; Feng, Jiaqi; Bai, Yang; Sun, Baoli; Xie, Qingmei; Tong, Yigang; Ma, Jingyun
2016-08-15
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has become a great threat to human and animal health and there is an urgent need to develop novel antibacterial agents to control this pathogen. The objective of this study was to obtain an active recombinant endolysin from the novel bacteriophage (IME-SA1), and conduct an efficacy trial of its effectiveness against bovine mastitis. We isolated a phage that was virulent and specific for S. aureus with an optimal multiplicity of infection of 0.01. Electron microscopy revealed that IME-SA1 was a member of the family Myoviridae, with an isometric head (98nm) and a long contractile tail (200nm). Experimental lysis experiments indicated the phage had an incubation period of 20min with a burst size of 80. When host bacteria were in early exponential growth stages, a multiplicity of infection of 0.01 resulted in a complete bacterial lysis after 9h. The endolysin gene (804bp) was cloned into the pET-32a bacterial expression vector and recombinant endolysin Trx-SA1 was successfully obtained with molecular size of about 47kDa. Preliminary results of therapeutic trials in cow udders showed that Trx-SA1 could effectively control mild clinical mastitis caused by S. aureus. The endolysin Trx-SA1 might be an alternative treatment strategy for infections caused by S. aureus, including MRSA. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Rahrig, M.; Luib, A.
2017-08-01
Sri Dalada Maligawa - the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic - is one of the most important pilgrim sites in Buddhist culture. It is the main part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Sacred City of Kandy. Since the end of the 17th century the temple has been keeping the sacred tooth of the Buddha. Until now an accurate documentation of the temple with all its rich decorations is missing. The Temple is built in an area vulnerable to environmental factors like earthquakes or monsoon rains and was the target of terrorist attacks. To help preserving this important cultural heritage a research project was carried out. Main part of the project was a 3D-documentation of the entire temple by using Terrestrial-Laser-Scanning (TLS) and the creating of CAD-Plans. In addition to the documentation of the architecture several details were taken in high resolution by Structured-Light-Scanning (SLS). All data will be part of the digital archive of the temple and were used as a base for a general site monitoring, especially to observe cracks. Next to the mere documentation a transfer of knowledge was another aim of the project. In future most of the analysis of the scan data can be done by local specialists.
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Producción científica española sobre salud laboral indizada en el Índice Médico Español (IME
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Julio Alonso Arévalo
2008-06-01
Full Text Available Objetivo: evaluar la producción científica española en salud laboral entre los años 1971 y 2007 a partir de los datos recogidos en la base de datos IME. Establecer las características relativas a la autoría, filiación y nivel de cooperación de los investigadores y determinar cuáles son las materias emergentes y cuáles son las áreas de interés principales. Método: a través de la metodología de búsqueda derivada se ha realizado un barrido, lo más exhaustivo y pertinente posible, en la base de datos IME de los registros sobre salud laboral. Los datos obtenidos han sido exportados y analizados a través del gestor de referencias ProCite. Mediante el tabulado de los datos se realiza un estudio de la autoría y filiación, y se efectúa un análisis de series temporales por descriptores y categorías. Resultados: 1530 referencias de documentos publicados procedentes de 180 revistas, congresos y partes de libros. El promedio de autores es de 2,6 autores por artículo. Un tercio de los autores sólo ha publicado un artículo sobre el tema. Las materias más estudiadas pertenecen al ámbito de la psicología del trabajo. Conclusiones: se constata un alto nivel de cooperación entre autores, así como una baja especialización, tanto en la autoría, como en las revistas en las que se publican los trabajos. Se observa una curva ascendente en los temas relativos al campo de la psicología del trabajo, con un notable incremento en los últimos cuatro años.The aims of this paper are: 1 to evaluate Spanish scientific publications on Occupational Health between 1971 and 2007, based on data collected from the IME database; 2 to present the features related to authorship, and the connections and potential cooperation among researchers; and 3 to determine emerging topics and main areas of interest. Through a derived search methodology, we have carried out an exhaustive scanning of IME records on Occupational Health, selected according to
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Candelaria Castro Pérez
2016-12-01
Evidenciándose una interconexión entre la Iglesia y el Estado y consecuentemente un acercamiento entre la Contabilidad Privada y la Contabilidad Pública. Con el propósito de analizar el efecto de estas medidas, tomadas por el Estado para desmantelar la economía eclesiástica, estudiamos los registros contables (Cuentas de fábrica pertenecientes a la parroquia de San Sebastián en la Villa de Agüimes, en la isla de Gran Canaria, durante los siglos XVI-XIX.
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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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Gil Leiva, Isidoro
2005-03-01
Full Text Available The keywords provided by authors in their scientific articles and the descriptors assigned to those articles in various databases are analysed to find out the role played by these keywords during the indexing process. In order to do that, 108 periodical publications proportionally distributed between Social Sciences and Humanities (36 journals, Science and Technology (36 and Medical and Health Sciences (36 were selected. Ten articles were selected from each of the 108 journals from different years, so that we worked altogether on 1080 articles meeting two conditions: including keywords and being indexed in the databases ISOC, ICYT or IME. Then, we proceeded to draw a comparison between the keywords used by the authors of the 1080 articles with the descriptors assigned by the database indexers. The comparison shows that in IME database 64.96% of the keywords provided by the authors exactly coincide with the descriptors or just do so after normalization; 60.48% in ISOC and 58.18% in ICYT.
Se analizan las palabras clave proporcionadas por autores en sus artículos científicos y los descriptores asignados a dichos artículos en varias bases de datos para averiguar el papel que juegan esas palabras clave durante el proceso de indización de los mismos. Para ello, se seleccionaron 108 publicaciones periódicas repartidas proporcionalmente entre Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (36 revistas, Ciencia y Tecnología (36 y Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud (36. De cada una de las 108 publicaciones se escogieron 10 artículos repartidos entre diferentes años, por lo que se trabajó con un total de 1080 que cumplían dos condiciones: poseer palabras clave y estar indizados en las bases de datos ISOC, ICYT o IME. Posteriormente, se procedió a contrastar las palabras clave de los autores de los 1080 artículos con los descriptores asignados por los indizadores en estas bases de datos. En la comparación se constata que, en la base de datos IME, el 64 -
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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Yulfira Media
2012-07-01
Full Text Available Tuberculosis (TB Pulmonary is still one of the major health problems in Indonesia, and included in the province of West Sumatra. Many efforts has been conducted to outcome the problem, one of them is the DOTS strategy. From the results of countermeasures that have been implemented was the scope of the discovery of the TB patients are expected to 70% in Year 2009 in West Sumatra Province can only be achieved 48.8%. The study of socio-cultural factors underlying the low coverage of the discovery of pulmonary TB patients have been conducted in the region of Padang Kandis health centers, Guguk Subdistrict, District 50 City. This study uses a qualitative approach, and data collection techniques used were Focus Group Discussions (FGD and in-depth interviews. The results showed that some socio-cultural aspects that are considered related to the low coverage of the discovery of patients with pulmonary TB are the economic aspects, education/knowledge, perceptions, habits and beliefs as well as access to health services. Knowledge and awareness in the prevention of pulmonary TB disease is still lacking. Some people still have the perception that the diseases associated with pulmonary TB supernatural power, and includes diseases that are considered shameful.
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Mercedes Calvo Cruz
2006-12-01
A través del estudio de una figura de gran relevancia desde el punto de vista económico-contable en la institución parroquial, como es el mayordomo, se persigue contribuir al enriquecimiento de la historia de la contabilidad en el terreno eclesiástico. Para ello en el presente trabajo pretendemos poner de manifiesto las funciones del mayordomo parroquial y sus implicaciones económico-contables, a través del análisis de los libros de cuentas y otra documentación contable, así como de los libros de Quentas de Fabrica que debía presentar el citado mayordomo al obispo o visitador general en las visitas que realizaba a las parroquias, tomando como ejemplo la parroquia de la Villa de Agüimes, en la isla de Gran Canaria, durante el periodo 1730-1830.
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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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Oltar Sv. Jeronima u crkvi Sv. Šime u Zadru i radionica Bettamelli
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Bojan Goja
2012-12-01
Full Text Available U radu se na temelju arhivskih podataka govori o oltaru Sv. Jeronima u crkvi Sv. Šime u Zadru. Od ranije se zna da je oltar dala podići i o njegovu se uređenju brinula bratovština hrvatskih i albanskih vojnika (Croatti a cavallo i Soldati Albanesi u službi Mletačke Republike, osnovana 1675. godine u Zadru. Novim je arhivskim istraživanjima utvrđeno da je dana 26. rujna 1694. godine bratovština odobrila izdatak u iznosu od 200 srebrnih dukata, namijenjenih venecijanskim klesarima braći Bettamelli kao predujam za izradu oltara te da su radovi na njegovu podizanju započeti u travnju 1696. godine. Na temelju zapisa o gradnji oltara iznijeta je pretpostavka da se grb na istočnom pilastru stipesa oltara, ranije povezivan s predstavnicima obitelji Civran, odnosi na zadarskog plemića i istaknutog zapovjednika u mletačkoj vojsci, Šimuna Fanfognu (Zadar, 7. travnja 1663. - Lendinara, 6. ožujka 1707. koji je obavljao i dužnost prokuratora oltara. Brojni radovi na uređenju oltara i kapele Sv. Jeronima obavljani su i tijekom čitavog 18. stoljeća, a na njima su bili uposleni brojni mjesni majstori različitih struka: graditelji Antonio Piovesana (1742. i Antonio Bernardini (1789., oltarist Girolamo Picco (1756., marangon Domenico Tomaselli (1743., kovač Antonelli (1744. te zlatari Zorzi Cullisich (1738., Nicolò Giurovich (1752. i Giuseppe Rado (1755.. Donose se još neke zanimljivosti vezane uz uređenje oltara i djelovanje bratovštine Sv. Jeronima.
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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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Weerasundara, Lakshika; Magana-Arachchi, D N; Ziyath, Abdul M; Goonetilleke, Ashantha; Vithanage, Meththika
2018-08-15
This research study which was undertaken in a congested city environment in a developing country provides a robust approach for the assessment and management of human health risk associated with atmospheric heavy metals. The case study area was Kandy City, which is the second largest city in Sri Lanka and bears the characteristics of a typical city in the developing world such as the urban footprint, high population density and traffic congestion. Atmospheric deposition samples were collected on a weekly basis and analyzed for nine heavy metals common to urban environments, namely, Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb. Health risk was assessed using hazard quotient (HQ) and hazard index (HI), while the cancer risk was evaluated based on life time daily cancer risk. Al and Fe were found to be in relatively high concentrations due to the influence of both, natural and anthropogenic sources. High Zn loads were attributed to vehicular emissions and the wide use of Zn coated building materials. Contamination factor and geo-accumulation index showed that currently, Al and Fe are at uncontaminated levels and other metals are in the range of uncontaminated to contaminated levels, but with the potential to exacerbate in the long-term. The health risk assessment showed that the influence of the three exposure pathways were in the order of ingestion > dermal contact > inhalation. The HQ and HI values for children for the nine heavy metals were higher than that for adults, indicating that children may be subjected to potentially higher health risk than adults. The study methodology and outcomes provide fundamental knowledge to regulatory authorities to determine appropriate mitigation measures in relation to HM pollution in city environments in the developing world, where to-date only very limited research has been undertaken. Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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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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Pyysalo, Joni
2007-01-01
Sisu: "Ringlemise viis, millesse me kinni jäime: kurvad, heitlikud, lootusrikkad..." ; "Tundmatu linnu huige öisel nõmmel, kordub saamata vastust, vannitoa..." ; "Aga armastus on umbrohi: leiab üles iga võimaluse, iga prao, iga nõrga koha." ; "Oma nõrkuse asetad sõrmeotsa ta silmalaule..." ; "Sa magad kaua, äratad ikka veel selle igatsuse..." ; "Mitu korda ütleb ta lihtsat su nime ja ei jõua lõpuni..." ; "Su hingamine on meister, kui on kiirus peal..." ; "Haige männi latv nagu riidepuu konks..." ; "Aga mingid rahustid ei rahusta enam..." ; "Harva nii ärkvel, et saad aru, mis lahti..." ; "Kui 90-ndate muusikat mängitakse raadios nagu minevikku..." ; "Hommikud peavad olema õrnad siin, kus magatakse üksi..." ; "Kõik on võimalik..." ; "Laps uninub lõpuks..." ; "Maailm, et oleks ometi, millega kalibreerida..." ; "Naine püüab pimeduses nutta nii tasakesi..:" ; "Õunapuu all istub tool..." ; "Mälu tahab meile öelda..." ; "Nii nagu väikeste tissidega naisel ei lähe vaja rinnahoidjaid..." ; "Ma sätin su tekki paremini, nagu kohendaksin tuld..." ; "Mitte keegi pole mu tahtele niimoodi vastu hakanud..." ; "Kolgin vana maja keldris mutrivõtmega..." ; "Naine magab, nägu seina poole, mees tuleb teki alla, kõverdab põlved..." I-III ; "Katus sulab ööga kokku..."
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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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Maznodrošinātu ģimeņu internātskolas skolēnu intelektuālās spējas un uzvedības traucējumi.
Poča, Kristīne
2011-01-01
Pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot, vai pastāv atšķirības intelektuālajās spējās un uzvedības traucējumos starp maznodrošinātu ģimeņu internātskolas skolēniem un normatīvo pielīdzināto grupu, kā arī kāda ir saistība starp uzvedības traucējumiem un intelektuālajām spējām internātskolu skolēniem. Pētījuma tika izmantots Vekslera intelektuālās novērtēšanas tests (Wechsler intelligence scales for children-fourth edition, Wechsler, 2003; adaptēts un standartizēts Latvijas apstākļiem Raščevska & Sebre, ...
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Nutrient Control of Yeast Gametogenesis Is Mediated by TORC1, PKA and Energy Availability.
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Hilla Weidberg
2016-06-01
Full Text Available Cell fate choices are tightly controlled by the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic signals, and gene regulatory networks. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the decision to enter into gametogenesis or sporulation is dictated by mating type and nutrient availability. These signals regulate the expression of the master regulator of gametogenesis, IME1. Here we describe how nutrients control IME1 expression. We find that protein kinase A (PKA and target of rapamycin complex I (TORC1 signalling mediate nutrient regulation of IME1 expression. Inhibiting both pathways is sufficient to induce IME1 expression and complete sporulation in nutrient-rich conditions. Our ability to induce sporulation under nutrient rich conditions allowed us to show that respiration and fermentation are interchangeable energy sources for IME1 transcription. Furthermore, we find that TORC1 can both promote and inhibit gametogenesis. Down-regulation of TORC1 is required to activate IME1. However, complete inactivation of TORC1 inhibits IME1 induction, indicating that an intermediate level of TORC1 signalling is required for entry into sporulation. Finally, we show that the transcriptional repressor Tup1 binds and represses the IME1 promoter when nutrients are ample, but is released from the IME1 promoter when both PKA and TORC1 are inhibited. Collectively our data demonstrate that nutrient control of entry into sporulation is mediated by a combination of energy availability, TORC1 and PKA activities that converge on the IME1 promoter.
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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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"They Will Come to Understand": Supervisor Reflections on International Medical Electives.
Roebbelen, Erica; Dorman, Katie; Hunter, Andrea; Kraeker, Christian; O'Shea, Tim; Bozinoff, Nikki
2018-03-22
Phenomenon: Increasing numbers of medical students from high-income countries are undertaking international medical electives (IMEs) during their training. Much has been written about the benefits of these experiences for the student, and concerns have been raised regarding the burden of IMEs on host communities. The voices of physicians from low- and middle-income countries who supervise IMEs have not been explored in depth. The current study sought to investigate host-physician perspectives on IMEs. Host supervisors were recruited by convenience sampling through students travelling abroad for IMEs during the summer of 2012. From 2012 through 2014, 11 semistructured interviews were conducted by telephone with host supervisors from Nepal, Uganda, Ghana, Guyana, and Kenya. Participants were invited to describe their motivations for hosting IMEs and their experiences of the benefits and harms of IMEs. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and checked for accuracy. An initial coding framework was developed and underwent multiple revisions, after which analytic categories were derived using conventional qualitative content analysis. For host supervisors, visits from international medical students provided a window into the resource-rich medical practice of high-income countries, and supervisors positioned themselves, their education, and clinical expertise against perceived standards of the international students' context. Hosting IMEs also contributed to supervisors' identities as educators connected to a global community. Supervisors described the challenge of helping students navigate their distress when confronting global health inequity. Finally, the desire for increasingly reciprocal relationships was expressed as a hope for the future. Insights: IMEs can be formative for host supervisors' identities and are used to benchmark host institutions compared with international medical standards. Reciprocity was articulated as essential for IMEs moving forward.
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Origins of igneous microgranular enclaves in granites: the example of Central Victoria, Australia
Clemens, J. D.; Elburg, M. A.; Harris, C.
2017-10-01
To investigate their genesis and relations with their host rocks, we study igneous microgranular enclaves (IMEs) in the c. 370 Ma, post-orogenic, high-level, felsic plutons and volcanic rocks of Central Victoria, Australia. The IMEs are thermally quenched magma globules but are not autoliths, and they do not form mixing series with their host magmas. These IMEs generally represent hybrids between mantle-derived magmas and very high- T crust-derived melts, modified by fractionation, ingestion of host-derived crystals and, to a lesser extent, by chemical interactions with their hosts. Isotopic and elemental evidence suggests that their likely mafic progenitors formed by partial melting of subcontinental mantle, but that the IME suites from different felsic host bodies did not share a common initial composition. We infer that melts of heterogeneous mantle underwent high- T hybridisation with melts from a variety of crustal rocks, which led to a high degree of primary variability in the IME magmas. Our model for the formation of the Central Victorian IMEs is likely to be applicable to other occurrences, especially in suites of postorogenic granitic magmas emplaced in the shallow crust. However, there are many different origins for the mingled magma globules that we call IMEs, and different phenomena seem to occur in differing tectonic settings. The complexity of IME formation means that it is difficult to unravel the petrogenesis of these products of chaotic magma processes. Nevertheless, the survival of fine-grained, non-equilibrium mineralogy and texture in the IMEs suggests that their tenure in the host magmas must have been geologically brief.
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Guilavogui, Timothé; Camara, Alioune; Diallo, Elhadj Marouf; Koïvogui, Akoï; Barry, Aminatou; Zoumanigui, Koligna; Diallo, Alpha Ahmadou; Delamou, Alexandre; Koulibaly, Moussa
2018-02-15
The study aims to describe the organizational framework of International Medical Evacuation (IME), the profile of persons evacuated, and the associated cost of IME in Guinea. This was a descriptive study of IME policy in Guinea. We described the politico-structural organization of IME and the profile of patient accessing IME through the Ministry of Health (MOH: 2001-2015) and through the National Social Security Fund (NSSF: 2011-2015). From 1958 to 1992 since the health system was restricted, the country negotiated the free medical treatment with Socialist countries. Since 1992, a medical assistance line was included in the sector budgets, and IME was officially managed by the MOH and with a parallel system existing at the NSSF. With an average cost of US $34 251 per case, cardiovascular diseases (20%), Traumatology/Orthopedic diseases (20%), and Neurologic/neurosurgery diseases (12.5%) have motivated more than half of 2445 IME supported by the MOH between 2001 and 2015. With a diagnostic exploration (38.7%) as main motivation, the majority of the IMEs (80.0%) endorsed by the NSSF (2011-2015) concerned their employees/workers or those of the NSSF's supervisory ministry and their families. Despite a strict regulatory framework, the emergence and sustainability of parallel IME systems in other departments with different procedures than MOH's procedure represent a major weakness/deficiency. The new prospects for the free medical treatment of state employees could eventually lead to an effective correction of this structural failure if efficiently managed. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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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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Feriani, Daniele Jardim; Coelho, Hélio José; Scapini, Kátia Bilhar; de Moraes, Oscar Albuquerque; Mostarda, Cristiano; Ruberti, Olivia Moraes; Uchida, Marco Carlos; Caperuto, Érico Chagas; Irigoyen, Maria Cláudia; Rodrigues, Bruno
2017-01-01
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of inspiratory muscle exercise (IME) on metabolic and hemodynamic parameters, cardiac autonomic modulation and respiratory function of older women with metabolic syndrome (MS). For this, sixteen older women with MS and 12 aged-matched controls participated of the present study. Two days before and 2 days after the main experiment, fasting blood samples (i.e., total cholesterol, triglycerides and blood glucose), cardiac autonomic modulation (i.e., heart rate variability), and respiratory muscle function were obtained and evaluated. The sessions of physical exercise was based on a IME, which was performed during 7 days. Each session of IME was performed during 20 min, at 30% of maximal static inspiratory pressure. In the results, MS group presented higher levels of triglycerides, blood glucose, and systolic blood pressure when compared to control group. IME was not able to change these variables. However, although MS group showed impaired respiratory muscle strength and function, as well as cardiac autonomic modulation, IME was able to improve these parameters. Thus, the data showed that seven days of IME are capable to improve respiratory function and cardiac autonomic modulation of older women with MS. These results indicate that IME can be a profitable therapy to counteracting the clinical markers of MS, once repeated sessions of acute IME can cause chronical alterations on respiratory function and cardiac autonomic modulation. PMID:28503537
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Temporal Expression of a Master Regulator Drives Synchronous Sporulation in Budding Yeast
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Minghao Chia
2016-11-01
Full Text Available Yeast cells enter and undergo gametogenesis relatively asynchronously, making it technically challenging to perform stage-specific genomic and biochemical analyses. Cell-to-cell variation in the expression of the master regulator of entry into sporulation, IME1, has been implicated to be the underlying cause of asynchronous sporulation. Here, we find that timing of IME1 expression is of critical importance for inducing cells to undergo sporulation synchronously. When we force expression of IME1 from an inducible promoter in cells incubated in sporulation medium for 2 hr, the vast majority of cells exhibit synchrony during premeiotic DNA replication and meiotic divisions. Inducing IME1 expression too early or too late affects the synchrony of sporulation. Surprisingly, our approach for synchronous sporulation does not require growth in acetate-containing medium, but can be achieved in cells grown in rich medium until saturation. Our system requires solely IME1, because the expression of the N6-methyladenosine methyltransferase IME4, another key regulator of early sporulation, is controlled by IME1 itself. The approach described here can be combined easily with other stage-specific synchronization methods, and thereby applied to study specific stages of sporulation, or the complete sporulation program.
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Temporal Expression of a Master Regulator Drives Synchronous Sporulation in Budding Yeast.
Chia, Minghao; van Werven, Folkert J
2016-09-07
Yeast cells enter and undergo gametogenesis relatively asynchronously, making it technically challenging to perform stage-specific genomic and biochemical analyses. Cell-to-cell variation in the expression of the master regulator of entry into sporulation IME1, has been implicated to be the underlying cause of asynchronous sporulation. Here we find that timing of IME1 expression is of critical importance for inducing cells to undergo sporulation synchronously. When we force expression of IME1 from an inducible promoter in cells incubated in sporulation medium for two hours, the vast majority of cells exhibit synchrony during pre-meiotic DNA replication and meiotic divisions. Inducing IME1 expression too early or too late affects the synchrony of sporulation. Surprisingly, our approach for synchronous sporulation does not require growth in acetate containing medium, but can be achieved in cells grown in rich medium until saturation. Our system solely requires IME1 because the expression of the N6-methyladenosine methyltransferase IME4, another key regulator of early sporulation, is controlled by IME1 itself. The approach described here can be easily combined with other stage specific synchronization methods, and thereby applied to study specific stages of sporulation or the complete sporulation program. Copyright © 2016 Author et al.
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Immobilization of Aspergillus niger. beta. -D-glucosidase on aminated chitin and alumina/alginate
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Bon, E.; Freire, D.; Mendes, M.F.; Soares. V.F.
1986-01-01
The immobilization of ..beta..-glucosidase was studied by (a) covalent coupling to aminated chitin (IME-C) and (b) adsorption onto alumina followed by gel entrapment of the suspension with calcium alginate (IME-A). The levels of catalytic activity determined against salicin at 50 C were 23.0 U/g and 0.2 U/g for the IME-C and IMA-A respectively. The first system was shown to be quite stable with a loss of only 2% of the initial activity over 14 days. The IME-A system had a half life of 14 days. The activity of IME-C was studied using cellobiose and enzymatic hydrolysates of sugar cane bagasse at several cellobiose concentrations. The activities obtained with cellobiose were 104.0 U/g and 72.0 U/g respectively. 13 references.
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2009-01-01
Projektist Wild Wonders of Europe, mille eesmärgiks on tutvustada Euroopa metsikumaid paiku ja seal elavat faunat eurooplastele ning propageerida loodushoidu. Projekti lõpptulemuseks on suur rändnäitus Euroopa 60 parema fotograafi töödest. Eestit esindab Sven Začek
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Dual-cell reduction and group effect in an internal microelectrolysis reactor
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Ying, Diwen; Peng, Juan; Li, Kan; Wang, Yalin; Pan, Siwen; Jia, JinPing
2013-01-01
Highlights: ► 2,4-DCP was removed simultaneously in cathode and anode cells in IME reactor. ► Mechanism of dual-cell reduction gave an insight of cathode and anode cells. ► Significant V oc increase with one/two electrodes couples being installed in series. ► Group effect reveals possible high redox potential in IME reactor. -- Abstract: To address some of the fundamental questions regarding the functions of cathodes and anodes (e.g., iron and granular active carbon) and what happens when numerous particles (microscopic galvanic cells) are combined in the widely used and efficient wastewater treatment of an internal microelectrolysis (IME) reactor, we employed a specifically designed dual-cell IME reactor with single-couple electrodes and a narrow cell IME reactor with multi-couple electrodes. The simultaneous removal of 6.36 mg L −1 and 2.93 mg L −1 of 2,4-dichlorophenol within 30 min from the graphite cathode and the iron anode cells, respectively, was observed in the dual-cell reactor. The innovative concept behind this phenomenon is that the anode, which is generally believed to be oxidative, could probably be reductive in an IME reactor. Thus, it is important to understand the unique performance of IME reactors. The group effect, which provides a 45% increase of open-circuit potential with just two additional electrode couples in aqueous solution, was tested and verified in a multi-couple electrode reactor. It suggests a complex potential distribution in the IME reactor and that compounds even with high redox potential could possibly be reduced, which was generally believed to be difficult to accomplish
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Ainusilmi : Imat Suumanni maastikumaalidest / Eduard Parhomenko
Parhomenko, Eduard, 1966-
1999-01-01
Imat Suumanni näitus "Kusagil Kodavere kandis II" novembris Obu galeriis Tartus. Silmapiirist kunstniku maalidel. Võrdluseks lühidalt Caspar David Friedrichi maastikest, Mark Rothko abstraktsetest maalidest
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Associateship | Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Address: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kandi, ... Specialization: Elementary Particle Physics Address during Associateship: Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.
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Eesti neiu purunenud American dream / Mihkel Kärmas
Kärmas, Mihkel, 1974-
2009-01-01
Eesti vahetusõpilane tembeldati vaimselt ebastabiilseks ja saadeti Ameerikast vägisi koju. Võru Kreutzwaldi Gümnaasiumi õpilase Kertu Pilleri kooliaasta on rikutud ja pere kandis 100 000 krooni kahju
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Chang, Fu-Yu; Chen, Ming-Kun; Jang, Ling-Sheng; Wang, Min-Haw
2016-01-01
Cell impedance analysis is widely used for monitoring biological and medical reactions. In this study, a highly sensitive three-dimensional (3D) interdigitated microelectrode (IME) with a high aspect ratio on a polyimide (PI) flexible substrate was fabricated for microparticle detection (e.g. cell quantity detection) using electroforming and lithography technology. 3D finite element simulations were performed to compare the performance of the 3D IME (in terms of sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio) to that of a planar IME for particles in the sensing area. Various quantities of particles were captured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium and their impedances were measured. With the 3D IME, the particles were arranged in the gap, not on the electrode, avoiding the noise due to particle position. For the maximum particle quantities, the results show that the 3D IME has at least 5-fold higher sensitivity than that of the planar IME. The trends of impedance magnitude and phase due to particle quantity were verified using the equivalent circuit model. The impedance (1269 Ω) of 69 particles was used to estimate the particle quantity (68 particles) with 98.6% accuracy using a parabolic regression curve at 500 kHz. (paper)
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Synthesis and solid state structures of Chalcogenide compounds of ...
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
-ylidene-1,1-Diphenyl-phosphinamine. KISHOR NAKTODEa, SUMAN DASa, ABHINANDA KUNDUa, HARI PADA NAYEKb and TARUN K PANDAa,∗. aDepartment of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi 502 285, ...
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Chu, Zongli; Chen, Junying; Sun, Junyan; Dong, Zhongdong; Yang, Xia; Wang, Ying; Xu, Haixia; Zhang, Xiaoke; Chen, Feng; Cui, Dangqun
2017-12-19
During asexual reproduction the embryogenic callus can differentiate into a new plantlet, offering great potential for fostering in vitro culture efficiency in plants. The immature embryos (IMEs) of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are more easily able to generate embryogenic callus than mature embryos (MEs). To understand the molecular process of embryogenic callus formation in wheat, de novo transcriptome sequencing was used to generate transcriptome sequences from calli derived from IMEs and MEs after 3d, 6d, or 15d of culture (DC). In total, 155 million high quality paired-end reads were obtained from the 6 cDNA libraries. Our de novo assembly generated 142,221 unigenes, of which 59,976 (42.17%) were annotated with a significant Blastx against nr, Pfam, Swissprot, KOG, KEGG, GO and COG/KOG databases. Comparative transcriptome analysis indicated that a total of 5194 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in the comparisons of IME vs. ME at the three stages, including 3181, 2085 and 1468 DEGs at 3, 6 and 15 DC, respectively. Of them, 283 overlapped in all the three comparisons. Furthermore, 4731 DEGs were identified in the comparisons between stages in IMEs and MEs. Functional analysis revealed that 271transcription factor (TF) genes (10 overlapped in all 3 comparisons of IME vs. ME) and 346 somatic embryogenesis related genes (SSEGs; 35 overlapped in all 3 comparisons of IME vs. ME) were differentially expressed in at least one comparison of IME vs. ME. In addition, of the 283 overlapped DEGs in the 3 comparisons of IME vs. ME, excluding the SSEGs and TFs, 39 possessed a higher rate of involvement in biological processes relating to response to stimuli, in multi-organism processes, reproductive processes and reproduction. Furthermore, 7 were simultaneously differentially expressed in the 2 comparisons between the stages in IMEs, but not MEs, suggesting that they may be related to embryogenic callus formation. The expression levels of genes, which
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Центр русской культуры: юбиляр с богатой историей / Йосеф Кац
Кац, Йосеф, 1977-
2014-01-01
Praeguse Mere puiestee hoonestusest alates 1857. aastast. Seal kandis tegutsenud Vassili Simeonovitš Voinovi poolt rajatud kinodest Ars ja Grand Marina. Tallinna Laevastiku Ohvitseride Maja, praeguse Vene Kultuurikeskuse hoone (Mere pst 5) ehitusest
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Mustamäe Jeans & Sport kujundati nädalaga
1998-01-01
Kauplusele Jeans & Sport määras sisekujundaja Urmas Alling punased trepid ja laetalad ning must-valge värvikombinatsiooni, ülejäänud sisekujunduse eest kandis õnnestunult hoolt reklaamijuht Urmas Priske
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Apteekrisell Mardi kuulus leib = Apothecary Mart's Famous Bread / Anne Saare
Saare, Anne
2014-01-01
Martsipani leiutamisega seotud legendist ja Jaan Krossi raamatust "Mardi leib". Martsipani valmistamisest Tallinnas keskajast tänapäevani. Thea Tammelaane ja tema elukaaslase P. Thomas Abrahami perefirma Nordic Kandie Magic valmistab luksusmartsipani
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ChunPing Ren
2017-01-01
Full Text Available We propose a novel mathematical algorithm to offer a solution for the inverse random dynamic force identification in practical engineering. Dealing with the random dynamic force identification problem using the proposed algorithm, an improved maximum entropy (IME regularization technique is transformed into an unconstrained optimization problem, and a novel conjugate gradient (NCG method was applied to solve the objective function, which was abbreviated as IME-NCG algorithm. The result of IME-NCG algorithm is compared with that of ME, ME-CG, ME-NCG, and IME-CG algorithm; it is found that IME-NCG algorithm is available for identifying the random dynamic force due to smaller root mean-square-error (RMSE, lower restoration time, and fewer iterative steps. Example of engineering application shows that L-curve method is introduced which is better than Generalized Cross Validation (GCV method and is applied to select regularization parameter; thus the proposed algorithm can be helpful to alleviate the ill-conditioned problem in identification of dynamic force and to acquire an optimal solution of inverse problem in practical engineering.
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Kaja Vunder kõndis kokaiinijoonel
1998-01-01
Äsja St. Martins'i lõpetanud Andrew Groves'i show'st 'Cocaine Nites' lõppenud Londoni moenädalal. Eesti modell Kaja Vunder kandis 1000 zhiletiteradest valmistatud kleiti ning peeglikildudest näomaski
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Tarantino film jõudis lõuendile / Tiia Linnard
Linnard, Tiia, 1962-
2005-01-01
Tarantino filmide fänn ja kunstitudeng Maarit Murka kandis "Kill Billi" kaadreid lõuendile, et kummitama jäänud linateose painest lahti saada. Tema näitust "Umabill" saab vaadata Jõhvi kunstikooli galeriis
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A Prescription Survey from Sri Lanka
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adherence to standard guidelines on the layout and content of prescriptions. Method: A ... Conclusion: Prescription errors are common in outpatient settings of Aluthgama and Kandy areas in .... qualification of the prescriber was present, it was.
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Motion estimation for cardiac functional analysis using two x-ray computed tomography scans.
Fung, George S K; Ciuffo, Luisa; Ashikaga, Hiroshi; Taguchi, Katsuyuki
2017-09-01
This work concerns computed tomography (CT)-based cardiac functional analysis (CFA) with a reduced radiation dose. As CT-CFA requires images over the entire heartbeat, the scans are often performed at 10-20% of the tube current settings that are typically used for coronary CT angiography. A large image noise then degrades the accuracy of motion estimation. Moreover, even if the scan was performed during the sinus rhythm, the cardiac motion observed in CT images may not be cyclic with patients with atrial fibrillation. In this study, we propose to use two CT scan data, one for CT angiography at a quiescent phase at a standard dose and the other for CFA over the entire heart beat at a lower dose. We have made the following four modifications to an image-based cardiac motion estimation method we have previously developed for a full-dose retrospectively gated coronary CT angiography: (a) a full-dose prospectively gated coronary CT angiography image acquired at the least motion phase was used as the reference image; (b) a three-dimensional median filter was applied to lower-dose retrospectively gated cardiac images acquired at 20 phases over one heartbeat in order to reduce image noise; (c) the strength of the temporal regularization term was made adaptive; and (d) a one-dimensional temporal filter was applied to the estimated motion vector field in order to decrease jaggy motion patterns. We describe the conventional method iME1 and the proposed method iME2 in this article. Five observers assessed the accuracy of the estimated motion vector field of iME2 and iME1 using a 4-point scale. The observers repeated the assessment with data presented in a new random order 1 week after the first assessment session. The study confirmed that the proposed iME2 was robust against the mismatch of noise levels, contrast enhancement levels, and shapes of the chambers. There was a statistically significant difference between iME2 and iME1 (accuracy score, 2.08 ± 0.81 versus 2.77
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The APSES protein Sok2 is a positive regulator of sporulation in Ashbya gossypii.
Wasserstrom, Lisa; Dünkler, Alexander; Walther, Andrea; Wendland, Jürgen
2017-12-01
Ashbya gossypii is a homothallic, flavinogenic, filamentous ascomycete that starts overproduction of riboflavin and fragments its mycelium quantitatively into spore producing sporangia at the end of a growth phase. Mating is not required for sporulation and the standard homothallic laboratory strain is a MATa strain. Here we show that ectopic expression of Saccharomyces cerevisiae MATα2 in A. gossypii completely suppresses sporulation, inhibits riboflavin overproduction and downregulates among others AgSOK2. AgSok2 belongs to a fungal-specific group of (APSES) transcription factors. Deletion of AgSOK2 strongly reduces riboflavin production and blocks sporulation. The initiator of meiosis, AgIME1, is a transcription factor essential for sporulation. We characterized the AgIME1 promoter region required for complementation of the Agime1 mutant. Reporter assays with AgIME1 promoter fragments fused to lacZ showed that AgSok2 does not control AgIME1 transcription. However, global transcriptome analysis identified two other essential regulators of sporulation, AgIME2 and AgNDT80, as potential targets of AgSok2. Our data suggest that sporulation and riboflavin production in A. gossypii are under mating type locus and nutritional control. Sok2, a target of the cAMP/protein kinase A pathway, serves as a central positive regulator to promote sporulation. This contrasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae where Sok2 is a repressor of IME1 transcription. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Nguyen, Nguyen Xuan; Sheingold, Steven H
2011-11-04
The indirect medical education (IME) and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) adjustments to Medicare's prospective payment rates for inpatient services are generally intended to compensate hospitals for patient care costs related to teaching activities and care of low income populations. These adjustments were originally established based on the statistical relationships between IME and DSH and hospital costs. Due to a variety of policy considerations, the legislated levels of these adjustments may have deviated over time from these "empirically justified levels," or simply, "empirical levels." In this paper, we estimate the empirical levels of IME and DSH using 2006 hospital data and 2009 Medicare final payment rules. Our analyses suggest that the empirical level for IME would be much smaller than under current law-about one-third to one-half. Our analyses also support the DSH adjustment prescribed by the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA)--about one-quarter of the pre-ACA level. For IME, the estimates imply an increase in costs of 1.88% for each 10% increase in teaching intensity. For DSH, the estimates imply that costs would rise by 0.52% for each 10% increase in the low-income patient share for large urban hospitals. Public Domain.
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Raudnask, Valve
2002-01-01
Oma koolilinnas Tartus pidas 75. sünnipäeva mälu-uurija Endel Tulving. Endel Tulving on Toronto Ülikooli audoktor, Ameerika Kunsti ja Teaduste Akadeemia auliige, Euroopa Akadeemia välisliige, Tartu Ülikooli audoktor, Hugo Treffneri Gümnaasiumi vilistlane
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Preference of a polyphagous mirid bug, Apolygus lucorum (Meyer-Dür for flowering host plants.
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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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Bulletin of Materials Science | Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Environmental Engineering/Electrochemistry Research Group, Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy 20000, Sri Lanka; Post Graduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka; Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya 20400, ...
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Nutritional support of the hospitalized patIent
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1983-04-16
Apr 16, 1983 ... ments, as well as the attempts ofothers to transfuse animal blood into human ..... incorporation ofan infusion pump (e.g. IVac and IMed models). The choice of pump ... IMed Model 922), while with the 3-litre container peristaltic.
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Väärt vara linnas ning maal / Ain Alvela ; kommenteerinud Mart Saa
Alvela, Ain, 1967-
2010-01-01
Uus Maa Kinnisvarabüroo tegevjuhi Mika Sucksdorffi hinnangul on Tallinnas kinnisvara üks arengusuundi Kalamaja-Kopli-Paljassaare piirkond. A&A Kinnisvara tegevjuhi Aivar Villemsoni hinnangul hakkavad kinnisvarahinnad tõusma esmalt pealinna keskmes, Rocca al Mare ja Pirita kandis
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IMF agrees on next tranche in exchange for high taxes / Kira Savchenko
Savchenko, Kira
2010-01-01
Rahvusvaheline Valuutafond kandis Lätile üle kolmanda osa lubatud laenust - 200 miljonit eurot. Euroopa Komisjon lubas, et kannab Lätile üle 500 miljonit eurot märsti keskel. Läti majandusarengust ja -langusest. Läti rahvusvahelised laenuandjad
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"Podelis ulõbkoju svojei..." / Vitali Katuntsev
Katuntsev, Vitali
2006-01-01
Rahvusvahelisel noortepäeval 12. aug. toimus Narva Laste Loomingu Maja territooriumil teatraliseeritud tänavaetendus Street Theatre 2006, mis kandis pealkirja "100 protsenti positiivsust". Lavastuse valmistasid ette Narva Laste Loomingu Maja teater "16 komnata" ja Jõhvi kultuurikeskuse teatritrupp
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Sudheendran, Mavila; Horecha, Marta; Kiriy, Anton
2013-01-01
where polymerizations were triggered by [Ru(NCO)2(IMesH2)(]CH-2-(2-PrO)–C6H4] (I2) and [Ru(NCO)2(3-Br-Py)2(IMesH2)(CHPh)] (I3), (IMesH2 ¼ 1,3-dimesitylimidazolin-2-ylidene, 3-Br-Py ¼ 3-bromopyridine), the use of RuCl2(Py)2(IMesH2)(CHPh) (I1) in THF allowed for the synthesis of poly(M1) without any...... backbiting, though with a broad PDI. Block copolymers, i.e. poly(M1)-b-poly(M2), could be prepared in a living manner without any backbiting by the use of the Mo-based Schrock-type initiator Mo(N-2,6-i-Pr2C6H3)(CHCMe2Ph)(OCH(CH3)2)2 (I4) and THF as solvent. Poly(M1)-b-poly(M2) was characterized by UV...
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Edukad pretsedendid rõivastega / Siim Nestor
Nestor, Siim, 1974-
1998-01-01
Riietusesemete suvaline sattumine suure publiku ette võib osutuda kasulikuks. Valik juhtumitest, mil riidefirmad katastroofilisi summasid ja veidrat tähelepanu on teeninud. 'Lee' teksatagist ja Marimekko horisontaaltriibuliset T-särgist, mida kandis Madonna videos 'Ray of Light' jne.
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Lõuna-Eesti suurim kaminapuude tootja on Matrix-Puit AS / Raivo Sihver
Sihver, Raivo
2007-01-01
Firma Matrix-Puit AS annab tööd 20-30 Räpina, Mooste ja Leevaku kandi inimesele, 2006. a. toodetud ligi 300 000 50- ja 60-liitristest kaminapuude kottidest läks enamus (üle 95%) Norrasse ja Soome
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IBBY kongressist Londonis / Piret Raud
Raud, Piret, 1971-
2012-01-01
Rahvusvahelisest Noorsookirjanduse Nõukogu kongressist Londonis, mis kandis pealkirja "Ületades piire: tõlked ja ränded". Kongressil anti üle ka Hans Christian Anderseni auhinnad. Kirjanikupreemia sai María Teresa Andruetto ja parima illustraatori tiitli Peter Sís.
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Tuljakus on sarikapidu peetud, avamine juba suvel
2015-01-01
Ettevõte Baltek Arendus restaureerib lillepaviljoni kõrval asuva söögikoha, mis 1990. aastate alguses kandis nime Carina, võimalikult algupärasel kujul, nii nagu selle kohviku Tuljak nime all kavandas 1965. aastal tunnustatud arhitekt Valve Pormeister
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Reference Values for Inspiratory Muscle Endurance in Healthy Children and Adolescents.
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Cristhiele Taís Woszezenki
Full Text Available To generate reference values for two inspiratory muscle endurance (IME protocols in healthy children and adolescents.This is an observational, cross-sectional study, in healthy children and adolescents from 4 to 18 years of age. Weight, height, maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP and IME were measured using two protocols. A fixed load of 30% of MIP with a 10% increment every 2 minutes was used in the incremental threshold loading protocol. As for the maximal loading protocol, a fixed load of 70% of MIP was used and the time limit (Tlim achieved until fatigue was measured.A total of 462 participants were included, 281 corresponding to the incremental loading protocol and 181 to maximal loading. There were moderate and positive correlations between IME and age, MIP, weight and height in the incremental threshold loading. However, the regression model demonstrated that MIP and age were the best variables to predict the IME. Otherwise, weak and positive correlations with age, weight and height were found in the maximal loading. Only age and height influenced endurance in the regression model. The predictive power (r2 of the incremental threshold loading protocol was 0.65, while the maximal loading was 0.15. The reproducibility measured by the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC was higher in the incremental loading (0.96 compared to the maximal loading test (0.69.IME in healthy children and adolescents can be explained by age, height and MIP. The incremental threshold loading protocol showed more reliable results and should be the model of choice to evaluate IME in the pediatric age group.
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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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CT-scanning of ancient Greenlandic Inuit temporal bones
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Homøe, P; Lynnerup, N; Videbaek, H
1992-01-01
Additional morphological evidence of former infectious middle ear disease (IMED) was found by CT-scanning in 5 of 6 Greenlandic Inuit crania strongly suspected for former IMED due to earlier examination revealing either bilateral hypocellularity or asymmetry of the pneumatized area of the temporal...
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Igavesti (mitte)lihtsad asjad = The (n)ever simple things / Maija Rudovska
Rudovska, Maija, 1982
2015-01-01
Läti Rahvusraamatukogu endises hoones toimunud nüüdiskunsti näitus kandis sel aastal nime "Survival K(n)it 7" (tlk. sõnamäng: ellujäämispakike/kudumine). Eestlastest osales Flo Kasearu tööga "Ülestõus"
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2450-IJBCS-Article-Ridwane Bio Oure
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php/ijbcs http://indexmedicus.afro.who.int. Inventaire, structure morpho-métrique et importance des varans sacrés de. Kandi (Nord-Est Bénin). Ridwane BIO ..... Durant la saison des amours, les varans femelles s'accouplent avec plusieurs mâles.
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Randviir, Ave, 1981-
2006-01-01
Uutest heliplaatidest The Flaming Lips "At War With The Mystics", "Hed Kandi: Twisted Disco", The Streets "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living", Psychoterror "Anarhia ja dekadents", Slide-Fifty "Reach Out", LL Cool J "Todd Smith", Jewel "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland"
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Predicted performance of an integrated modular engine system
Binder, Michael; Felder, James L.
1993-01-01
Space vehicle propulsion systems are traditionally comprised of a cluster of discrete engines, each with its own set of turbopumps, valves, and a thrust chamber. The Integrated Modular Engine (IME) concept proposes a vehicle propulsion system comprised of multiple turbopumps, valves, and thrust chambers which are all interconnected. The IME concept has potential advantages in fault-tolerance, weight, and operational efficiency compared with the traditional clustered engine configuration. The purpose of this study is to examine the steady-state performance of an IME system with various components removed to simulate fault conditions. An IME configuration for a hydrogen/oxygen expander cycle propulsion system with four sets of turbopumps and eight thrust chambers has been modeled using the Rocket Engine Transient Simulator (ROCETS) program. The nominal steady-state performance is simulated, as well as turbopump thrust chamber and duct failures. The impact of component failures on system performance is discussed in the context of the system's fault tolerant capabilities.
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Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins.
Gove, Jamison M; McManus, Margaret A; Neuheimer, Anna B; Polovina, Jeffrey J; Drazen, Jeffrey C; Smith, Craig R; Merrifield, Mark A; Friedlander, Alan M; Ehses, Julia S; Young, Charles W; Dillon, Amanda K; Williams, Gareth J
2016-02-16
Phytoplankton production drives marine ecosystem trophic-structure and global fisheries yields. Phytoplankton biomass is particularly influential near coral reef islands and atolls that span the oligotrophic tropical oceans. The paradoxical enhancement in phytoplankton near an island-reef ecosystem--Island Mass Effect (IME)--was first documented 60 years ago, yet much remains unknown about the prevalence and drivers of this ecologically important phenomenon. Here we provide the first basin-scale investigation of IME. We show that IME is a near-ubiquitous feature among a majority (91%) of coral reef ecosystems surveyed, creating near-island 'hotspots' of phytoplankton biomass throughout the upper water column. Variations in IME strength are governed by geomorphic type (atoll vs island), bathymetric slope, reef area and local human impacts (for example, human-derived nutrient input). These ocean oases increase nearshore phytoplankton biomass by up to 86% over oceanic conditions, providing basal energetic resources to higher trophic levels that support subsistence-based human populations.
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Estimation of otitis media in ancient populations: A study of past and present Greenlandic Inuit
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Homøe, P; Lynnerup, N; Skovgaard, Lene Theil
1996-01-01
Examination of disease patterns in the past has often been difficult due to lack of morphological evidence. This study presents a new unbiased method for estimation of occurrence of infectious middle ear disease (IMED) in childhood. The method is based on the relation between IMED in childhood an...
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Li, Shenyu; Kee, Choonwee; Huang, Kuo-Wei; Hor, Andy Sum Andy; Zhao, Jin
2010-01-01
A series of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes CpMo(CO) 2(NHC)X (NHC = IMe = 1,3-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 1; NHC = 1,3-dipropylimidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 2; NHC = IMes = 1,3-bis(2,4,6- trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 3
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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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Vegetables, Coctails & Reflections / Marco Laimre
Laimre, Marko, 1968-
2006-01-01
Pealkirja "Vegetables, Coctails & Reflections" kandis Tallinna Kunstihoones 8.04.-28.05.2006 avatud Elin Kardi, Marko Mäetamme, Marco Laimre ja Andres Tali ühisnäitusel "Vägivald ja propaganda" Marco Laimre installatsioon. Marco Laimre esinemine raadiosaates "kunst.er" Klassikaraadios 16.04.2006
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10 päeva Otepää väikejärvedel / Teet Krause
Krause, Teet, 1960-
2013-01-01
Eesti Maaülikooli kalastikuseirajad uurisid 2013. a suvel Otepää kandi 16 väikejärve kalavarusid. Huvipakkuvaks harrastuskalastajale tunnistati Mõrtsuka järv, Päidla Suurjärv, Pilkuse järv, Jaanuse järv, Restu paisjärv
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SU-8 photoresist-derived electrospun carbon nanofibres as high ...
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2017-06-09
Jun 9, 2017 ... as high-capacity anode material for lithium ion battery. M KAKUNURI, S KAUSHIK, A SAINI and C S SHARMA. ∗. Creative and Advanced Research Based On Nanomaterials (CARBON) Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering,. Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, Kandi 502285, India. ∗.
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Загадочное исчезновение акций / Артур Тооман
Тооман, Артур, 1971-
2009-01-01
Zircon Technologies AS-i ostu jaoks Gate Capital OÜ loonud isikud väidavad, et üks ettevõtte loojatest - Aleksandr Kuzin, olles ainus juhatuse liige mõlemas ettevõttes, kandis 51% aktsiatest oma ettevõttele Pidev OÜ ja kandib ettevõtte vara oma firmadele
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Amidinate Ligands in Zinc coordination sphere: Synthesis and ...
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Amidinate Ligands in Zinc coordination sphere: Synthesis and structural diversity. SRINIVAS ANGA, INDRANI BANERJEE and TARUN K PANDA. ∗. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi 502 285,. Sangareddy, Telangana, India e-mail: tpanda@iith.ac.in. MS received 25 February 2016; ...
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Tucker, Sheila, Ed.
The following 13 papers on business and marketing education are included in this document: "Internet Marketing" (Herb Brown, Jerry Kandies); "Disk This . . . Paper Flow on the Go!" (Mary Evans, Wilbur Whitley); "Production and Evaluation of On-Line Tutorials" (Margie Gallagher, Evelyn Farrior, Jane Geissler);…
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Quantitative ethnobotany of Lophira lanceolata Tiegh. ex Keay ...
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Modernización tecnológica y cambios organizacionales en la industria maquiladora
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Jorge Carrillo Viveros
1990-09-01
Full Text Available Actualmente, la importancia que representa para México la industria maquiladora de exportación (IME puede resumirse en los siguientes cuatro puntos: primero, es la segunda fuente de divisas para el país (después del petróleo; la tasa de absorción de fuerza de trabajo excede a la de los demás sectores de la economía; su crecimiento en el número de establecimientos; la complejidad y modernización que muestra en los últimos años. Bajo este panorama, se justifica la atención que se le presta a la IME ante el probable Tratado Trilateral de Acuerdo de Libre Comercio, con el que se espera continuará su expansión, por lo que se hace necesario realizar estudios que fortalezcan el aprovechamiento de oportunidades que pudiera ofrecer la IME..Es en este sentido que en este trabajo se analizan algunos aspectos relacionados con la tecnología en plantas maquiladoras, especialmente aquellas con nuevas formas de organización en el trabajo. Las hipótesis que se manejan son dos: existe una amplia y heterogénea difusión de la tecnología en la IME; existen diferencias significativas en la estructura organizativa entre plantas que utilizan nuevas tecnologías blandas o métodos de organización flexible del trabajo, y plantas de tipo más tradicional. Para la realización de este trabajo se llevó a cabo una encuesta probabilística en Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana y Monterrey.Algunas de las conclusiones a las que se llegan reflejan que la IME no sólo es importante por las divisas y empleos que genera a nivel nacional, sino también por los impactos que propicia a nivel regional. Las características actuales de la IME la definen por su dinamismo, heterogeneidad y reestructuración. Dentro de la reestructuración se observa: la difusión de procesos automatizados; los cambios en el empleo, y la proliferación de la flexibilización organizacional.En lo que se refiere a la flexibilización organizacional en la IME, los resultados de este trabajo
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Ying, Diwen; Peng, Juan; Xu, Xinyan; Li, Kan; Wang, Yalin; Jia, Jinping
2012-01-01
Highlights: ► Specifically-designed SIME reactor for treatment of mature landfill leachate. ► Excellent removal efficiencies of COD (86.1%), color (95.3%), and HA (81.8%). ► Combination effect of IME without aeration and IME with aeration. ► Optimal pH of 5, Fe/C of 1:1, gas flow rate of 80 L h −1 , and H 2 O 2 of 100 mg L −1 . - Abstract: A comparative study of treating mature landfill leachate with various treatment processes was conducted to investigate whether the method of combined processes of internal micro-electrolysis (IME) without aeration and IME with full aeration in one reactor was an efficient treatment for mature landfill leachate. A specifically designed novel sequencing batch internal micro-electrolysis reactor (SIME) with the latest automation technology was employed in the experiment. Experimental data showed that combined processes obtained a high COD removal efficiency of 73.7 ± 1.3%, which was 15.2% and 24.8% higher than that of the IME with and without aeration, respectively. The SIME reactor also exhibited a COD removal efficiency of 86.1 ± 3.8% to mature landfill leachate in the continuous operation, which is much higher (p 2 O 2 , were optimized. All results show that the SIME reactor is a promising and efficient technology in treating mature landfill leachate.
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Loeti luuletusi Eestist ja Eestile / Krista Kumberg
Kumberg, Krista, 1959-
2008-01-01
Ernst Enno etluskonkursi maakondlikust lõppvoorust. 1.-6. klassi õpilased kandis ette oma loodud luuletusi, esile tõsteti: Eva-Maria Brock, Kristjan Kaljuvee, Lisa-Lote Paadik, Martin Nerman, Sebastian Lehis, Viljar Kaer, Merili Kisant, Grete Grauberg. Vt ka Lääne Elu, 26. veebr., lk. 8
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Ying, Diwen [School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240 (China); Peng, Juan [Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (United States); Xu, Xinyan; Li, Kan; Wang, Yalin [School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240 (China); Jia, Jinping, E-mail: jpjia@sjtu.edu.cn [School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai, 200240 (China)
2012-08-30
Highlights: Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Specifically-designed SIME reactor for treatment of mature landfill leachate. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Excellent removal efficiencies of COD (86.1%), color (95.3%), and HA (81.8%). Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Combination effect of IME without aeration and IME with aeration. Black-Right-Pointing-Pointer Optimal pH of 5, Fe/C of 1:1, gas flow rate of 80 L h{sup -1}, and H{sub 2}O{sub 2} of 100 mg L{sup -1}. - Abstract: A comparative study of treating mature landfill leachate with various treatment processes was conducted to investigate whether the method of combined processes of internal micro-electrolysis (IME) without aeration and IME with full aeration in one reactor was an efficient treatment for mature landfill leachate. A specifically designed novel sequencing batch internal micro-electrolysis reactor (SIME) with the latest automation technology was employed in the experiment. Experimental data showed that combined processes obtained a high COD removal efficiency of 73.7 {+-} 1.3%, which was 15.2% and 24.8% higher than that of the IME with and without aeration, respectively. The SIME reactor also exhibited a COD removal efficiency of 86.1 {+-} 3.8% to mature landfill leachate in the continuous operation, which is much higher (p < 0.05) than that of conventional treatments of electrolysis (22.8-47.0%), coagulation-sedimentation (18.5-22.2%), and the Fenton process (19.9-40.2%), respectively. The innovative concept behind this excellent performance is a combination effect of reductive and oxidative processes of the IME, and the integration electro-coagulation. Optimal operating parameters, including the initial pH, Fe/C mass ratio, air flow rate, and addition of H{sub 2}O{sub 2}, were optimized. All results show that the SIME reactor is a promising and efficient technology in treating mature landfill leachate.
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Vyacheslav Gurevich
Full Text Available Tight regulation of developmental pathways is of critical importance to all organisms, and is achieved by a transcriptional cascade ensuring the coordinated expression of sets of genes. We aimed to explore whether a strong signal is required to enter and complete a developmental pathway, by using meiosis in budding yeast as a model. We demonstrate that meiosis in budding yeast is insensitive to drastic changes in the levels of its consecutive positive regulators (Ime1, Ime2, and Ndt80. Entry into DNA replication is not correlated with the time of transcription of the early genes that regulate this event. Entry into nuclear division is directly regulated by the time of transcription of the middle genes, as premature transcription of their activator NDT80, leads to a premature entry into the first meiotic division, and loss of coordination between DNA replication and nuclear division. We demonstrate that Cdk1/Cln3 functions as a negative regulator of Ime2, and that ectopic expression of Cln3 delays entry into nuclear division as well as NDT80 transcription. Because Ime2 functions as a positive regulator for premeiotic DNA replication and NDT80 transcription, as well as a negative regulator of Cdk/Cln, we suggest that a double negative feedback loop between Ime2 and Cdk1/Cln3 promotes a bistable switch from the cell cycle to meiosis. Moreover, our results suggest a regulatory mode switch that ensures robust meiosis as the transcription of the early meiosis-specific genes responds in a graded mode to Ime1 levels, whereas that of the middle and late genes as well as initiation of DNA replication, are regulated in a threshold mode.
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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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Continued Funding for Prime Development
2012-04-18
PHP language with the help of CMF Drupal-6. The standard modules of the Drupal core set are developed by third parties and obtained from the...repository drupal.org. Part of the modules was modified specifically for the PrIMe portal. The PrIMe portal uses MySQL for the database technology. It is
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2011-06-07
... Administration FMCSRs Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations IANA Intermodal Association of North America IEP... required to report to the IEP or the providers' designated agent any actual damage or defect in the IME of which the driver or motor carrier is aware at the time the IME is returned to the IEP or the provider's...
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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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Won-Seok Kim
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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Ostukoha valikul pole hind ainus ja tähtsaim argument / Sirje Niitra ; kommenteerinud Tiina Hiob
Niitra, Sirje, 1948-
2015-01-01
Uue kaubakeskuse avamisega sai Viimsi asula keskne ristmik endale kokku viis suurt ostukohta. Artiklis selgub, mille järgi selle kandi inimesed ostukoha valiku teevad. Valiku tegemisel mängivad suurt rolli ka psühholoogilised tegurid, vahel eelistatakse just kõrgemaid hindu, sest olulised on maine ja staatus
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Soome hariduse ime / Liisi Poll
Poll, Liisi, 1980-
2005-01-01
PISA (Programme for International Student Assessement) uuringu andmeil on Soome haridus maailma parim. Autori sõnul ei ole Soomes eliitkoole, I ja II klassi enamasti katseid ei korraldata, põhihariduse andmisel püütakse minimaalseks teha kõik sotsiaalsed vahed, peetakse tähtsaks, et kohustuslikus kooliastmes saaksid lapsed võimalikult võrdse hariduse
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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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DLRS: gene tree evolution in light of a species tree.
Sjöstrand, Joel; Sennblad, Bengt; Arvestad, Lars; Lagergren, Jens
2012-11-15
PrIME-DLRS (or colloquially: 'Delirious') is a phylogenetic software tool to simultaneously infer and reconcile a gene tree given a species tree. It accounts for duplication and loss events, a relaxed molecular clock and is intended for the study of homologous gene families, for example in a comparative genomics setting involving multiple species. PrIME-DLRS uses a Bayesian MCMC framework, where the input is a known species tree with divergence times and a multiple sequence alignment, and the output is a posterior distribution over gene trees and model parameters. PrIME-DLRS is available for Java SE 6+ under the New BSD License, and JAR files and source code can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/jprime/. There is also a slightly older C++ version available as a binary package for Ubuntu, with download instructions at http://prime.sbc.su.se. The C++ source code is available upon request. joel.sjostrand@scilifelab.se or jens.lagergren@scilifelab.se. PrIME-DLRS is based on a sound probabilistic model (Åkerborg et al., 2009) and has been thoroughly validated on synthetic and biological datasets (Supplementary Material online).
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Cuauhtémoc Calderón Villarreal
2000-01-01
Full Text Available El presente estudio tiene como finalidad el desarrollar un modelo econométrico que permita evaluar y comparar los factores que influyen en la demanda de trabajo de la industria maquiladora de exportación (IME, de los estados de la frontera norte de México. Se construye una función de demanda de trabajo que considera como variables explicativas a: las remuneraciones, la actividad industrial en los Estados Unidos como "proxi" del ingreso y las economías de aglomeración derivadas de la especialización y concentración industrial. En el estudio se considera que los factores de localización regional relacionados con el mercado de trabajo son elementos determinantes de la demanda de trabajo y explicativos de los incrementos salariales de la IME en los estados de la frontera norte. Los resultados del trabajo muestran que el nivel salarial, el tamaño medio de las plantas maquiladoras y la especialización de la producción de la IME determinan a la demanda de trabajo de la IME, en estados de la frontera norte de México .
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Yang, Jin; Li, Pinhua; Zhang, Yicheng; Wang, Lei
2014-05-21
Six dinuclear N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) palladium complexes, [PdCl2(IMes)]2(μ-dppe) (1), [PdCl2(IPr)]2(μ-dppe) (2), [PdCl2(IMes)]2(μ-dppb) (3), [PdCl2(IPr)]2(μ-dppb) (4), [PdCl2(IMes)]2(μ-dpph) (5), and [PdCl2(IPr)]2(μ-dpph) (6) [IMes = N,N'-bis-(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene; IPr = N,N'-bis-(2,6-di(iso-propyl)phenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene; dppe = 1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane, dppb = 1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane; and dpph = 1,6-bis(diphenylphosphino)hexane], have been synthesized through bridge-cleavage reactions of chloro-bridged dimeric compounds, [Pd(μ-Cl)(Cl)(NHC)]2, with the corresponding diphosphine ligands. The obtained compounds were fully characterized by (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR and (31)P NMR spectroscopy, FT-IR, elemental analysis and single-crystal X-ray crystallography. Moreover, further explorations of the catalytic potential of the dinuclear carbene palladium complexes as catalysts for the Pd-catalyzed transformations have been performed under microwave irradiation conditions, and the complexes exhibited moderate to good catalytic activity in the Hiyama coupling reaction of trimethoxyphenylsilane with aryl chlorides.
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Elfita Elfita
2016-12-01
Full Text Available Garcinia griffithii and Garcinia cowa belong to the genus Garcinia. The genus Garcinia has been known to be a rich source of secondary metabolites, such as xanthones, benzophenones, flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, and other phenolic derivatives. Previous investigations of endophytic fungi from G. griffithii revealed the presence of three compounds not found in the host. In order to the continue the phytochemical work on endophytic fungi of G. griffithii, the constituent of the endophytic fungi of G. griffithii was re-examined. In this study, a benzoyl compound similar to that found in the endophytic fungus of G. cowa was observed. The same benzoyl compound was also isolated from the endophytic fungus Acremonium sp of G. griffithii and Aspergillus sp of G. cowa with cultivation of eight weeks in static conditions at room temperature. The culture medium was partitioned using ethyl acetate and evaporated to obtain the concentrated extract. Isolation of compounds was performed using the chromatography method. The chemical structure was proposed on the basis of spectroscopic data, including ultraviolet (UV, infrared (IR, mass spectrometry (MS, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR, carbon nuclear magnetic resonance (13C-NMR, heteronuclear single-quantum correlation spectroscopy (HSQC, heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation spectroscopy (HMBC, and correlation spectroscopy (COSY.
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Drivers of Competitiveness and Strategies for Economic ...
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Rules of origin and development of regional production network in Asia : case studies of selected industries. Téléchargez le PDF. Rapports. Coping with food price hikes : strategies of the poor in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Téléchargez le PDF. Rapports. Utility of regional trade agreements : experience from India's regionalism.
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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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Sista Girl Rock: Women of Colour and Hip-Hop Deejaying as Raced/Gendered Knowledge and Language
Craig, Todd; Kynard, Carmen
2017-01-01
This article seeks to introduce and situate a seldom-explored subject: the role and contribution of women hip-hop deejays in the testosterone-filled genre called hip-hop. Grounding the analysis in the interviews of six women deejays--Spinderella, Kuttin Kandi, Pam the Funkstress, Reborn, Shorty Wop and Natasha Diggs--"Sista Girl Rock"…
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宋,相載
1995-01-01
This paper describes Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) which prepares to meet the technologies challenge of the 21st century in terms of its dynamic history, desired roles, and scope as well as potential future. To play a crucial future role of IME, its essentials and requisites are proposed. The area covered is wide and includes: systems integration techniques, flexible production structure, knowledge-based intelligent production, human-centered production, environmentally consciou...
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Kask, Aale
2008-01-01
Arhitektid Laur Pihel ja Tauno Aadma oma koostöötamise algusest ja arhitektuurist, materjalieelistustest, murukatusest. Tauno Aadma ja Laur Piheli projekteeritud eramust Nõmmel, ying-yang majast Maardu kandis, optilisest majast Peetri külas, mätaskatusega betoonmajast Kloogarannas, stereotüüpe lammutavast palkmajast. Foto arhitektidest, 13 värv. vaadet, 4 korruste plaani
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Preon Model and Family Replicated E_6 Unification
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Larisa V. Laperashvili
2008-02-01
Full Text Available Previously we suggested a new preon model of composite quark-leptons and bosons with the 'flipped' $E_6imes widetilde{E_6}$ gauge symmetry group. We assumed that preons are dyons having both hyper-electric $g$ and hyper-magnetic $ilde g$ charges, and these preons-dyons are confined by hyper-magnetic strings which are an ${f N}=1$ supersymmetric non-Abelian flux tubes created by the condensation of spreons near the Planck scale. In the present paper we show that the existence of the three types of strings with tensions $T_k=k T_0$ $(k = 1,2,3$ producing three (and only three generations of composite quark-leptons, also provides three generations of composite gauge bosons ('hyper-gluons' and, as a consequence, predicts the family replicated $[E_6]^3$ unification at the scale $sim 10^{17}$ GeV. This group of unification has the possibility of breaking to the group of symmetry: $ [SU(3_C]^3imes [SU(2_L]^3imes [U(1_Y]^3 imes [U(1_{(B-L}]^3$ which undergoes the breakdown to the Standard Model at lower energies. Some predictive advantages of the family replicated gauge groups of symmetry are briefly discussed.
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Submaximal Riemann-Roch expected curves and symplectic packing.
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Wioletta Syzdek
2007-06-01
Full Text Available We study Riemann-Roch expected curves on $mathbb{P}^1 imes mathbb{P}^1$ in the context of the Nagata-Biran conjecture. This conjecture predicts that for sufficiently large number of points multiple points Seshadri constants of an ample line bundle on algebraic surface are maximal. Biran gives an effective lower bound $N_0$. We construct examples verifying to the effect that the assertions of the Nagata-Biran conjecture can not hold for small number of points. We discuss cases where our construction fails. We observe also that there exists a strong relation between Riemann-Roch expected curves on $mathbb{P}^1 imes mathbb{P}^1$ and the symplectic packing problem. Biran relates the packing problem to the existence of solutions of certain Diophantine equations. We construct such solutions for any ample line bundle on $mathbb{P}^1 imes mathbb{P}^1$ and a relatively smallnumber of points. The solutions geometrically correspond to Riemann-Roch expected curves. Finally we discuss in how far the Biran number $N_0$ is optimal in the case of mathbb{P}^1 imes mathbb{P}^1. In fact we conjecture that it can be replaced by a lower number and we provide evidence justifying this conjecture.
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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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Light rays in static spacetimes with critical asymptotic behavior: A variational approach
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Valeria Luisi
2006-09-01
Full Text Available Let $mathcal{M}=mathcal{M}_{0}imes mathbb{R}$ be a Lorentzian manifold equipped with the static metric $langle cdot ,cdot angle _{z}=langle cdot ,cdot angle -eta (xdt^{2}$. The aim of this paper is investigating the existence of lightlike geodesics joining a point $z_{0}=(x_{0},t_{0}$ to a line $gamma ={ x_{1}} imes mathbb{R}$ when coefficient $eta $ has a quadratic asymptotic behavior by means of a variational approach.
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Estudio preliminar de la copolimerización de acrilamida con el itaconato de mono y dimetoxietilo
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Luis Rojas
2011-10-01
Full Text Available The copolymerization of acrylamide (AAm with monomethoxyethyl itaconate (IME and dimethoxyethyl itaconate (IDE was studied, using various molar relations AAm/itaconate. The polymerization reactions were carried out both in bulk and in solution, using 2,2´- azobisisobutyronitrile and ammonium persulfate respectively as initiators. The copolymers obtained were soluble in water and these were characterized by means FTIR spectroscopy and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA and DTGA. The copolymers AAm/IDE were obtained with high yields and they were thermally stable up to 200ºC, whereas the yields of the copolymers AAm/IME were lower and they were stable up to 150ºC. Finally, hydrogels AAm/IME and AAm/IDE were prepared using the molar relation AAm/Itaconate 80/20 with 1% of crosslinking agent. It was found that swelling of these hydrogels was higher than those obtained with AAm in the same experimental conditions.
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Simm, Teinonen lose honors / Jana Belugina
Belugina, Jana
2009-01-01
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves otsustas võtta ära Valgetähe IV klassi teenetemärgi Herman Simmilt, kelle suhtes on jõustunud süüdimõistev kohtuotsus riigireetmises. Samuti otsustas riigipea võtta ära Maarjamaa Risti V klassi teenetemärgi Risto Teinonenilt, kes kandis Eesti Vabariigi teenetemärki koos Eestit okupeerinud riigi sümboolikaga
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Skandaal Evelin Ilvese paljaste õlgade pärast / Karoliina Vasli
Vasli, Karoliina
2009-01-01
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves ja proua Evelin Ilves andsid 4. aprillil 2009 Estonia kontserdisaalis piduliku õhtusöögi Eestisse riigivisiidile saabunud Hispaania kuninga Juan Carlos I ja kuninganna Sofia auks. Proua E. Ilves kandis moekunstnik Arne Niidu loodud kleiti. Kommenteerib etiketiõpetaja Maaja Kallast. Presidendipaari riietamise kuludest aastatel 2006-2008. Vt. samas: Tagiga nooruslik president; Evelin Ilves viis kuninganna Kehrwiederisse kohvitama
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Gobiernos de enlace: la población y la política más allá del Estado
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Ignacio Irazuzta
2009-10-01
Full Text Available El artículo analiza algunos resultados obtenidos a partir de una investigación de campo desarrollada en torno al Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (IME. Se centra en la práctica de gobierno de los funcionarios que lo componen e interpreta las representaciones sociales sobre la población gobernada en términos de diáspora. Además, analiza la estructura organizacional del IME y la noción y la práctica de red en el trabajo de la institución. A partir de ello, se muestra un accionar de gobierno que opera en el centro de tensión de dicotomías políticas modernas: la de lo interior y lo exterior, y la de lo público y lo privado.This article discusses some results obtained from field research carried out in the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (IME. It focuses on the government practices of its officials and interprets the social representations of a population governed in terms of diaspora. It also analyzes the organizational structure of the IME and the concept and practice of networks in the work of the institution. From there the actions of a government that operates in the tense centre of political modern dichotomies is demonstrated: the dichotomies of the interior/exterior and public/private.
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Martina Šutovská
2010-01-01
Full Text Available Different plants have been reported to be a source of polysaccharides that possess a great variety of biological activities, including cough suppression. The experiments were aimed on the influence of two polysaccharides isolated from the gel (A, HF1-Z and one from the epidermis (SL-1 of Aloe vera leaves, characterized by chemical composition and structural properties, on the cough reflex. The method of mechanically induced cough was used in conscious cats. A nylon fibre directed individually into the mucous area of the laryngopharyngeal and tracheobronchial airways via endotracheal cannula elicited the cough reflex. Statistical evaluation registered cough reflex indicators (number of cough efforts - NE, cough frequency - NE min–1 intensity of cough attacks during expiration and inspiration - IA+ and IA-, intensity of maximal inspiratory and expiratory cough efforts - IME- and IME+ showed that gel polysaccharide HF1-Z possessed higher cough-suppressing activity than dropropizine, a nonnarcotic peripheral cough suppressant. Their antitussive activity was accompanied mainly with a decrease of NE, IA+ and IA- from both laryngopharyngeal and tracheobronchial mucous areas of the airways. Results of the presented study also showed minimal influence of polysaccharide HF1-Z on expectoration predictor, IME- and IME+. New pharmacodynamic property of polysaccharides isolated from Aloe vera was shown during experiments, which could be a base of their possible therapeutic use in this indication in future.
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Li, Shenyu
2010-04-26
A series of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes CpMo(CO) 2(NHC)X (NHC = IMe = 1,3-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 1; NHC = 1,3-dipropylimidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 2; NHC = IMes = 1,3-bis(2,4,6- trimethylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene, X = Br, 3; NHC = IBz = 1,3-dibenzylimidazol- 2-ylidene, X = Br, 4a, and X = Cl, 4b; NHC = 1-methyl-3-propylimidazol-2- ylidene, X = Br, 5) and [CpMo(CO)2(IMes)(CH3CN)][BF 4] (6) have been synthesized and fully characterized. The stability of metal-NHC ligand bonds in these compounds under oxidative conditions has been investigated. The thermally stable Mo(VI) dioxo NHC complex [CpMoO 2(IMes)][BF4] (9) has been isolated by the oxidation of the ionic complex 6 by TBHP (tert-butyl hydrogen peroxide). Complex 6 can be applied as a very active (TOFs up to 3400 h-1) and selective olefin epoxidation catalyst. While under oxidative conditions (in the presence of TBHP), compounds 1-5 decompose into imidazolium bromide and imidazolium polyoxomolybdate. The formation of polyoxomolybdate as oxidation products had not been observed in a similar epoxidation catalyzed by Mo(II) and Mo(VI) complexes. DFT studies suggest that the presence of Br- destabilizes the CpMo(VI) oxo NHC carbene species, consistent with the experimental observations. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
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Poola ime asemel needus / Lech Kaczanowski
Kaczanowski, Lech
2010-01-01
Positiivseid uudiseid Poolast, mis räägivad uuest suurest välisinvesteeringute lainest, looduslike toorainete avastamisest ja lepitusest Venemaaga, tumestab 10. aprillil Venemaal toimunud lennuõnnetus, milles hukkusid Poola president ja teised kõrged poliitikud ning ametiisikud
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Pinaud, Julien; Trinh, Thi Kim Hoang; Sauvanier, David; Placet, Emeline; Songsee, Sriprapai; Lacroix-Desmazes, Patrick; Becht, Jean-Michel; Tarablsi, Bassam; Lalevée, Jacques; Pichavant, Loïc; Héroguez, Valérie; Chemtob, Abraham
2018-01-09
1,3-Bis(mesityl)imidazolium tetraphenylborate (IMesH + BPh 4 - ) can be synthesized in one step by anion metathesis between the corresponding imidazolium chloride and sodium tetraphenylborate. In the presence of 2-isopropylthioxanthone (sensitizer), an IMes N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligand can be photogenerated under irradiation at 365 nm through coupled electron/proton transfer reactions. By combining this tandem NHC photogenerator system with metathesis inactive [RuCl 2 (p-cymene)] 2 precatalyst, the highly active RuCl 2 (p-cymene)(IMes) complex can be formed in situ, enabling a complete ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of norbornene in the matter of minutes at room temperature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of a photogenerated NHC. Its exploitation in photoROMP has resulted in a simplified process compared to current photocatalysts, because only stable commercial or easily synthesized reagents are required. © 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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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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Millennials in action: a student-guided effort in curriculum-integration of library skills.
Brower, Stewart
2004-01-01
By working in tandem with the Coordinator of Information Management Education (IME) at the University at Buffalo Health Sciences Library, students serving on the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Curriculum Committee helped map out a three-year plan for training in library and information literacy skills. Through meetings and e-mail exchanges with the student representatives, the IME Coordinator developed a series of specific course-related instruction and assessment opportunities which would cover tertiary resources, bibliographic searching, evidence-based pharmacy, and advanced information skills.
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Ying, Diwen; Peng, Juan; Xu, Xinyan; Li, Kan; Wang, Yalin; Jia, Jinping
2012-08-30
A comparative study of treating mature landfill leachate with various treatment processes was conducted to investigate whether the method of combined processes of internal micro-electrolysis (IME) without aeration and IME with full aeration in one reactor was an efficient treatment for mature landfill leachate. A specifically designed novel sequencing batch internal micro-electrolysis reactor (SIME) with the latest automation technology was employed in the experiment. Experimental data showed that combined processes obtained a high COD removal efficiency of 73.7 ± 1.3%, which was 15.2% and 24.8% higher than that of the IME with and without aeration, respectively. The SIME reactor also exhibited a COD removal efficiency of 86.1 ± 3.8% to mature landfill leachate in the continuous operation, which is much higher (p<0.05) than that of conventional treatments of electrolysis (22.8-47.0%), coagulation-sedimentation (18.5-22.2%), and the Fenton process (19.9-40.2%), respectively. The innovative concept behind this excellent performance is a combination effect of reductive and oxidative processes of the IME, and the integration electro-coagulation. Optimal operating parameters, including the initial pH, Fe/C mass ratio, air flow rate, and addition of H(2)O(2), were optimized. All results show that the SIME reactor is a promising and efficient technology in treating mature landfill leachate. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Huang, Jingang; Chen, Jianjun; Xie, Zhengmiao; Xu, Xiaojun
2015-01-01
In this study, a coupled process of coagulation and aerated internal micro-electrolysis (IME) with the in situ addition of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was investigated for the treatment of nanofiltration (NF) concentrate from mature landfill leachate. The acceptable operating conditions were determined as follows: initial pH 4, polymeric aluminium chloride dosage of 525 mg-Al2O3/L in the coagulation process, H2O2 dosage of 0.75 mM and an hydraulic retention time of 2 h in an aerated IME reactor. As a result, the removal efficiencies for chemical oxygen demand (COD), total organic carbon, UV254 and colour were 79.2%, 79.6%, 81.8% and 90.8%, respectively. In addition, the ratio of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5)/COD in the final effluent increased from 0.03 to 0.31, and that of E2/E4 from 12.4 to 38.5, respectively. The results indicate that the combined process is an effective and economical way to remove organic matters and to improve the biodegradability of the NF concentrate. Coagulation process reduces the adverse impact of high-molecular-weight organic matters such as humic acids, on the aerated IME process. A proper addition of H2O2 in the aerated IME can promote the corrosion of solid iron (Fe2+/Fe3+) and cause a likely domino effect in the enhancement of removal efficiencies.
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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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Ghasem Alizadeh Afrouzi
2006-10-01
Full Text Available In this paper, we establish an equivalent statement to minimax inequality for a special class of functionals. As an application, we prove the existence of three solutions to the Dirichlet problem $$displaylines{ -u''(x+m(xu(x =lambda f(x,u(x,quad xin (a,b,cr u(a=u(b=0, }$$ where $lambda>0$, $f:[a,b]imes mathbb{R}o mathbb{R}$ is a continuous function which changes sign on $[a,b]imes mathbb{R}$ and $m(xin C([a,b]$ is a positive function.
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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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Molecular determinants of sporulation in Ashbya gossypii.
Wasserstrom, Lisa; Lengeler, Klaus B; Walther, Andrea; Wendland, Jürgen
2013-09-01
Regulation of development and entry into sporulation is critical for fungi to ensure survival of unfavorable environmental conditions. Here we present an analysis of gene sets regulating sporulation in the homothallic ascomycete Ashbya gossypii. Deletion of components of the conserved pheromone/starvation MAP kinase cascades, e.g., STE11 and STE7, results in increased sporulation. In kar3 mutants sporulation is severely reduced, while deletion of KAR4 as well as of homologs of central Saccharomyces cerevisiae regulators of sporulation, IME1, IME2, IME4, and NDT80, abolishes sporulation in A. gossypii. Comparison of RNAseq transcript profiles of sporulation-deficient mutants identified a set of 67 down-regulated genes, most of which were up-regulated in the oversporulating ste12 mutant. One of these differentially expressed genes is an endoglucanase encoded by ENG2. We found that Eng2p promotes hyphal fragmentation as part of the developmental program of sporulation, which generates single-celled sporangia. Sporulation-deficient strains are arrested in their development but form sporangia. Supply of new nutrients enabled sporangia to return to hyphal growth, indicating that these cells are not locked in meiosis. Double-strand break (DSB) formation by Spo11 is apparently not required for sporulation; however, the absence of DMC1, which repairs DSBs in S. cerevisiae, results in very poor sporulation in A. gossypii. We present a comprehensive analysis of the gene repertoire governing sporulation in A. gossypii and suggest an altered regulation of IME1 expression compared to S. cerevisiae.
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Pärdi Da Pacem ettekanne võitis Grammy auhinna
2007-01-01
Arvo Pärdi teos "Da Pacem" Eesti Fi1harmoonia Kammerkoori ettekandes võitis 1. veebr. Los Angeleses 49. Grammy muusiakaauhindade jagamisel auhinna parima kooriettekande kategoorias. Parima klassikalise albumi heliproduktsiooni kategoorias läks auhind Michael Bishopile Briti helilooja Edward Elgari "Enigma: variatsioonid" ning Briti helilooja ja dirigendi Benjamin Britteni "Noore inimese teejuht orkestrini, neli mereteemalist interlüüdi" eest. Mõlema teose kandis ette Cincinnati sümfooniaorkester, mille dirigent on Paavo Järvi
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Vändra kandis kasvab arbuus ja melon / Liina Siniveer
Siniveer, Liina
2006-01-01
Vt. ka Postimees : na russkom jazõke 21. juuli lk. 8. Pärnumaa Saare ja Tõrvaaugu talu peremehed Aivar Saar ja Harri Poom tegelevad lisaks maasikakasvatusele ning viljapuuistikute müügile ka eksootiliste viljade - arbuuside, melonite, aprikooside ja viinamarjade - kasvatamisega. Kaart: Lüüste küla
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Bayesian Islamic medication expert system (B-IMES)
Daud, Hanita; Razali, Radzuan; Jung, Low Tan; Zaida, Shahnaz
2015-12-01
This paper discusses on the development of an expert system (ES) that applies Bayesian Probability concept for Islamic Medication practice that is made available on web platform. This ES allows user to choose sickness such as headache, stomachache, toothache and etc that he/she may have and list of symptoms related to the sickness will appear for the user to choose. Once symptom(s) is/are chosen the diagnosis is being carried out to suggest percentage of possible specific sickness such as classic migraine, common migraine, tension headache and etc if headache was chosen. This diagnosis is being carried out using Bayes' Theorem and the ES will suggest the treatments or therapy that he/she needs to perform in reference to Muslim Holy Quran and Hadith. This ES was developed to preserve Islamic medication and to create awareness among the young generation and make it accessible at anytime and anywhere and to save users time to meet Islamic Medication practitioners who are not easily available in Malaysia and other parts of the world.
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Tiigrite ja draakonite uued imed / Surin Pitsuwan
Pitsuwan, Surin
2007-01-01
ASEAN-i uue peasekretäri arvates peaksid Aasia rahvad vaesusega võitlemiseks koostööd tegema. ASEAN-i rolliks tulevikus on edendada kolme Aasia kogukonna - Ida-Aasia, Kagu-Aasia ja Lõuna Aasia lõimumist ja nende rahva heaolu
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Poola luule ime / Märt Väljataga
Väljataga, Märt, 1965-
2008-01-01
Arvustus: Rozewicz, Tadeusz. Alati fragment / tlk. Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : H. Lindepuu, 2007 ; Herbert, Zbigniew. Valitud luuletused / tlk. Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : H. Lindepuu, 2008 ; Szymborska, Wislawa. Oma aja lapsed / tlk. Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : H. Lindepuu, 2008
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Poola luule ime / Märt Väljataga
Väljataga, Märt, 1965-
2008-01-01
Rets. rmt. : Różewicz, Tadeusz. Alati fragment / poola keelest tõlkinud Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : Hendrik Lindepuu Kirjastus, 2007; Herbert, Zbigniew. Valitud luuletused / poola keelest tõlkinud Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : H. Lindepuu, 2008; Szymborska, Wislawa. Oma aja lapsed / poola keelest tõlkinud Hendrik Lindepuu. Laiuse : H. Lindepuu, 2008
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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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Surgical resident education: what is the department's price for commitment?
Meara, Michael P; Schlitzkus, Lisa L; Witherington, Mitzi; Haisch, Carl; Rotondo, Michael F; Schenarts, Paul J
2010-01-01
The current recession has impacted all aspects of our economy. Some residency programs have experienced faculty salary cuts, furlough days, and cessation of funding for travel to academic meetings. This milieu forced many residency programs to reevaluate their commitment to resident education, particularly for those expenses not provided for by Direct Medical Education (DME) and Indirect Medical Education (IME) funds. The purpose of this study was to determine what price a Department of Surgery pays to fulfill its commitment to resident education. A financial analysis of 1 academic year was performed for all expenses not covered by DME or IME funds and is paid for by the faculty practice plan. These expenses were categorized and further analyzed to determine the funds required for resident-related scholarly activity. A university-based general surgery residency program. Twenty-eight surgical residents and a program coordinator. The departmental faculty provided $153,141 during 1 academic year to support the educational mission of the residency. This amount is in addition to the $1.6 million in faculty time, $850,000 provided by the federal government in terms of DME funds, and $14 million of IME funds, which are distributed on an institutional basis. Resident presentations at scientific meetings accounted for $49,672, and program coordinator costs of $44,190 accounted for nearly two-thirds of this funding. The departmental faculty committed $6400 per categorical resident. In addition to DME and IME funds, a department of surgery must commit significant additional monies to meet the educational goals of surgical residency. Copyright © 2010 Association of Program Directors in Surgery. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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El cambio tecnológico en la industria maquiladora de exportación en México: Un enfoque metodológico
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J. Alberto Godínez Plascencia
1990-09-01
Full Text Available El presente trabajo hace una revisión crítica de los estudios más representativos que analizan el cambio tecnológico en la industria maquiladora en México (IME. El objetivo es realizar una evaluación de los diferentes elementos que se estudian en cada uno de los trabajos, haciendo un énfasis especial en los instrumentos de medición y la base de datos.El argumento que sustenta el trabajo es que la diversidad de resultados y conclusiones son producto de la misma heterogeneidad de las plantas maquiladoras, pero también de la diversidad de los objetivos, hipótesis, marco teórico, variables, indicadores, instrumentos de medición, base de datos, etc., que utilizan los estudios analizados.Las conclusiones plantean la siguiente pregunta: ¿Existe un cambio de carácter estructural en el nivel tecnológico de la IME? Actualmente, en la IME existe una heterogeneidad en la base tecnológica que se manifiesta en una dualidad tecnológica, que se mantiene como estructura y como proceso tendencial. Este esquema se reproduce tanto entre las plantas como al interior de las mismas que cuentan con tecnologías y formas de organización más avanzadas. Además, este apartado proporciona una serie de recomendaciones técnico-metodológicas, con el fin de mejorar y eficientar los instrumentos de medición y base de datos sobre el cambio tecnológico u otras variables que se deseen conocer para la IME.
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80 aastat tagasi : Juuli-august 1928 / Mati Märtin
Märtin, Mati
2008-01-01
Muusikasündmustest 80 aastat tagasi: 30. juunist 2. juulini toimus IX üldlaulupidu, Tallinna Kaarli kirikus kandis linnade ühendkoor August Topmanni juhatusel ette Händeli oratooriumi "Messias", 1. juulil esines Tallinna Jaani kirkus segakoor Suomen Laulu, 8. juulil Petseri uues lurteri kirikus toimus venekeelne kontsert-jumalateenistus Petseri kloostri- ja maakonna kooride ja 7. jalaväe rügemendi orkestri kaastegevusel, 5. aug. Rapla kirikus esines Johannes Jürgensoni (Juhan Jürme) juhatusel Tallinna Kaarli Lauluselts
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Nataša Martina Pintarič
2018-02-01
Full Text Available Velikokrat sem se začudil nad tistimi, ki so prvi sklicali praznovanje in ustanovili športna tekmovanja, ker so imeli telesne uspehe za vredne nagrad, nobene časti pa niso dodelili tistim, ki so si zasebno prizadevali za skupno dobro in izurili svoj razum, tako da bi lahko koristili tudi drugim. [2] Tem bi bilo primerneje posvetiti pozornost. Če bi namreč atleti dobili dvakrat tolikšno moč, ne bi drugi pridobili ničesar, če pa bi postal razumen en mož, bi imeli korist od njegove preudarnosti vsi, ki bi je želeli biti deležni.
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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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Ehelepola, N D B; Ariyaratne, Kusalika
2015-01-01
Temperature, humidity, and other weather variables influence dengue transmission. Published studies show how the diurnal fluctuations of temperature around different mean temperatures influence dengue transmission. There are no published studies about the correlation between diurnal range of humidity and dengue transmission. The goals of this study were to determine the correlation between dengue incidence and diurnal fluctuations of temperature and humidity in the Sri Lankan city of Kandy and to explore the possibilities of using that information for better control of dengue. We calculated the weekly dengue incidence in Kandy during the period 2003-2012, after collecting data on all of the reported dengue patients and estimated midyear populations. Data on daily maximum and minimum temperatures and night-time and daytime humidity were obtained from two weather stations, averaged, and converted into weekly data. The number of days per week with a diurnal temperature range (DTR) of >10°C and humidity range (DHR) of >20 and humidity. There were negative correlations between dengue incidence and a DTR >10°C and a DHR >20% with 3.3-week and 4-week lag periods, respectively. Additionally, positive correlations between dengue incidence and a DTR humidity in the future. We suggest ways and means to use this information for local dengue control and to mitigate the potential effects of the ongoing global reduction of DTR on dengue incidence.
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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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Greenleaf, J. E.; Starr, J. C.; Van Beaumont, W.; Convertino, V. A.
1983-01-01
Measurements of maximal grip strength and endurance at 40 percent max strength were obtained for 7 men 19-21 years of age, 1-2 days before and on the first recovery day during three 2-week bedrest (BR) periods, each separated by a 3-week ambulatory recovery period. The subjects performed isometric exercise (IME) for 1 hr/day, isotonic exercise (ITE) for 1 hr/day, and no exercise (NOE) in the three BR periods. It was found that the mean maximal grip strength was unchanged after all three BR periods. Mean grip endurance was found to be unchanged after IME and ITE training, but was significantly reduced after NOE. These results indicate that IME and ITE training during BR do not increase or decrease maximal grip strength, alghough they prevent loss of grip endurance, while the maximal strength of all other major muscle groups decreases in proportion to the length of BR to 70 days. The maximal strength reduction of the large muscle groups was found to be about twice that of the small muscle groups during BR. In addition, it is shown that changes in maximal strength after spaceflight, BR, or water immersion deconditioning cannot be predicted from changes in submaximal or maximal oxygen uptake values.
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Indirect Medical Education and Disproportionate Share Adj...
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Indirect Medical Education and Disproportionate Share Adjustments to Medicare Inpatient Payment Rates The indirect medical education (IME) and disproportionate share...
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Siim Nestor soovitab : Noor, värske ja psühhedeelne hip-hop / Siim Nestor
Nestor, Siim, 1974-
2002-01-01
Keskkooli-noorte hip-hop-kollektiiv BAP presenteerib oma vastilmunud albumit "Who Am I?" 28. veebr. Tallinna Kunstigümnaasiumis, kaastegev äsja albumi "Tabamata Ime" ilmutanud ansambel Luarvik-Luarvik
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Depression among older people in Sri Lanka: With special reference to ethnicity.
Khaltar, Amartuvshin; Priyadarshani, Neelawala Gw; Delpitiya, Nisansala Y; Jayasinghe, Chandrika; Jayasinghe, Ananda; Arai, Asuna; Tamashiro, Hiko
2017-12-01
To ascertain if the factors associated with depression differ among ethnic groups in community-dwelling older people in Kandy District, Sri Lanka. A cross-sectional survey was carried out of people aged ≥60 years living in a single divisional secretariat of Kandy District. The participants were asked about ethnicity (Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim), sociodemographic characteristics and depression status by face-to-face interviews with a structured questionnaire. Depression was measured by the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale, and the total score of ≥6 was considered as depression. The χ 2 -test and multivariate logistic regression with two-way interaction terms between sociodemographic characteristics and ethnicity were carried out. Participants (n = 778) consisted of 56.6% Sinhalese, 22.1% Tamils and 21.3% Muslims. Of the participants, the prevalence of depression was 31.8% (27.3% in Sinhalese, 42.1% in Tamils and 32.9% in Muslims). Multivariate analyses showed that there were no significant interactions between sociodemographic characteristics and ethnicity. However, low economic status, low perceived social support and more than two self-reported diseases were significantly associated with depression in all ethnic groups. Some factors were found to be significantly associated with depression, but did not differ among ethnic groups. The findings would help practitioners to identify older people with a high risk of depression, and to intervene in its development or exacerbation. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2017; 17: 2414-2420. © 2017 Japan Geriatrics Society.
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Rattus, Kristel
2004-01-01
"Vilde jootrahana" on ajalukku läinud 1913. aastal Eesti kirjandusringkondades puhkenud skandaal, mille tekitas Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi otsus jätta auhinnast ilma Eduard Vilde näidend "Tabamata ime"
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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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Mäeots, Vello, 1940-2015
2001-01-01
20. XI esines Hortus Musicus Moskvas Eesti saatkonnas. Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor kandis 15.XI Toulouse'is koos Toulouse'i Rahvusliku Linnaorkestriga ette Jean Sibeliuse "Kullervo". 22.XI tähistatakse hispaania helilooja Joaquín Rodrigo 100. sünniaastapäeva. Estonia teatri Valges saalis esitleti kogumik-CD-d "Georg Ots ئ Anthology". "Kiriku laulu- ja palveraamat" sai 30.XI 10. aastaseks. 3.XII toimub Tallinnas Kaarli kirikus "Vikerraadio" heategevuskontsert "Aita alustada elu". 26.X asutati Suure-Jaanis Rahvusvaheline Artur Kapi Ühing, mille esimeheks valiti organist Andres Uibo
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A deep Suzaku observation of the Galactic Ia supernova remnant G306.3-0.9
Tachibana, K.; Sawada, M.; Uchida, H.; Ito, Y.; Matsumura, H.; Bamba, A.; Tsuru, T.; Tanaka, T.
2017-10-01
The supernova remnant (SNR) G306.3-0.9 was discovered by Swift in 2011. Its relatively small size confirmed by Chandra implies the SNR is young (Reynolds et al. 2013). XMM-Newton (Combi et al. 2016) and Suzaku (Sezer et al. 2017) discovered strong Fe-Kα, and established a type-Ia origin of the SNR. Recent studies of young Ia SNRs have revealed Fe has lower ionization state than intermediate mass elements (IME) . This implies they maintain a stratified ejecta structure. However, previous studies of G306.3-0.9 assumed Fe and IME have a common ionization timescale. We reanalyzed the Suzaku data with the latest calibration database to study the nature of Fe ejecta and to estimate the age. Spectrum analysis showed the Fe-Kα centroid is 6.47±0.01 keV (O-like), which results in higher electron temperature (>3 keV) and lower ionization state (˜1.5×10^{10} s cm^{3}) for Fe than IME. The Hydrogen absorption column density is (1.2-1.3)× 10^{22} cm^{-2}, leading to the conclusion that the distance of the SNR is ˜ 20 kpc and the age is ˜ 8.5 kyr. The SNR is the first example of still stratified ejecta in the late Sedov phase.
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TIME MANAGEMENT - AN INSTRUMENT TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY
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Johan Nortje
2012-01-01
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: TIME is an Important element in any persons life as a plannlng mechanlsm to meaningfully organIse activities, or to ensure that a oroject runs WIth but also as a generator of destructive forces over it is lost. In the process of growth and progress ln a dynamIC everchanging envIronment. tIme not only becomes dearer to management, but also $carcet-, and an era of "time poverty" is experienced by many. A varIety of uncontrollable factors may be the cause of such problems, but a danger eXIsts that those factors over which control may be exercised could be lost within the uncontrol labie ones. The objective of this artIcle on tIme management is then to assist in identIfying those "barriers" which lead to "time pover'ty", how to avoid and prevent tIme wastage and apply methods, and make use of ways to promote the effective use of tIme.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: TYD is 'n belangrlke faktor In dIe lewe van dIe mens enersyds dlen dlt as 'n beplannlngsmeganlsme am jOU daaglikse aktiwitelte slnvol te orden of am 'n pro.lek met preS1Sle te laat verloop, maar andersvds kan dlt ook vernietigende kragte genereer lndlen 'n mens daaroor beheer verloor. In die proses van groel en voorultgang In 'n dinamles veranderende omgewlng, raak dIe tyd van bestuur nle aIleen kosbaarder n ie, maarook skaar'ser en 'n era van' tydarmoede' word deur ba i e ervaar·. ' n Verskel denhe 1d van onbehee rbare faktore mag hiervoor verantwoordeilk wees, maar dIe gevaar bestaan dat die mens dle greep op dIe beheerbare faktore mag verloor. Die DOEL met hierdle artlkel oor tydsbestuur IS jU1S om behulpsaam te wees met dIe ldentiflsering van "slaggate" wat tot'tydat-moede" aanlelding gee. hoe am tydverkwlstlng te voorkom of te hanteer en die toepassing van metodes en gebruik van hulpmiddels om effektiewe tydsbestuur te bevorder. -
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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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Vorm on see iva, sisu kahjuks - kooruke / Jaak Lõhmus
Lõhmus, Jaak
2004-01-01
57. Cannes'i filmifestivali võistluskavas nähtud neli filmi - John Nosseiteri dokumentaal "Mondovino" (USA), Pedro Almodovari "Halb haridus" (Hispaania), Emir Kusturica "Elu on ime" (Jugoslaavia/Prantsusmaa), Hirokazu Koreeda "Ükski ei tea" (Jaapan)
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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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Международный олимпийский комитет глазами господина Мейера
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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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, L'effet de l'extubation precoce apres chirurgie cardiaque pour la rehabilitation post opératoire, Abstract PDF. Hichem Cheikhrouhou, Amine Kharrat, Rahma Derbel, Yesmine Ellouze, Karim Jmal, Hela Ben Jmaa, Mohamed Ali Elkamel, Imed ...
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Adaptation to Increase Resilience to Climate Change in Ethiopian ...
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Digital Library (Canada)
Small-scale farmers will need to adopt water management technologies to increase ... by -analyzing combinations of technologies for profitability and ease of use; ... The project team will also investigate how gender differentiated ime and risk ...
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Moosipurgid Tartu alateadvuse keldrites / Ave Randviir
Randviir, Ave, 1981-
2006-01-01
Priit Pajose näitus "Imed, inimesed ja imeinimesed" Tartu Kunstimaja galeriis. Seitsme noorema põlvkonna kunstniku näitus "Raamatukoguprojekt. Kunstniku dialoog ruumiga" Rael Artel Gallery: Non Profit Project Space's Tartu Linnaraamatukogu keldris Kompanii 3/5
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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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Wang, Lu; Lu, Wen; Shen, Qi; Wang, Shengjia; Zhou, Hui; Yu, Lushan; Wang, Sicen; Jiang, Huidi; He, Langchong; Zeng, Su
2012-11-01
In this study, 2 metabolites of imperatorin, imperatorin hydroxylate (IMH) and imperatorin epoxide (IME), were identified for the first time in dog plasma. A sensitive, specific, and accurate high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was then developed for the simultaneous quantification of imperatorin and its 2 metabolites in dog plasma. Separation was achieved on an Agilent ZORBAX Extend-C(18) column (2.1 mm × 50 mm, 3.5 μm) at 30 °C. The mobile phase consisted of 0.02% ammonium acetate solution-methanol with a gradient program at a flow rate of 0.3 mL/min. Detection was performed using an electrospray ionization source operating in positive ion multiple reaction monitoring mode and by monitoring the ion transitions from 271 to 203 m/z for imperatorin, 309.4-224.1 m/z for IMH, 287-203 m/z for IME, and 441.3-325.2 m/z for simvastatin (the internal standard). Good linearity was shown over the concentration range of 1-500 ng/mL for imperatorin, and 0.2-500 ng/mL for IMH and IME. The validated method was successfully applied to a pharmacokinetic study of imperatorin in beagle dogs. The pharmacokinetic profiles of imperatorin and its 2 metabolites showed sex differences after the i.v. administration of imperatorin at a dose of 5 mg/kg. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Yu, Tianlei; Guo, Pinwen; Cheng, Jun; Hu, Aixue; Lin, Pengfei; Yu, Yongqiang
2018-03-01
Previous studies show a close relationship between the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) circulation on interannual timescales. In this study, we investigate whether this close relationship will change under intensive greenhouse-gas effect by analyzing simulations under two different climate background states: preindustrial era and Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 stabilization from the Community Climate System Model Version 4 (CCSM4). Results show a significantly reduced relationship under stabilized RCP8.5 climate state, such a less correlated EASM with the sea level pressure in the southern Indian Ocean and the SH branch of local Hadley Cell. Further analysis suggests that the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) due to this warming leads to a less vigorous northward meridional heat transport, a decreased intertropical temperature contrast in boreal summer, which produces a weaker cross-equatorial Hadley Cell in the monsoonal region and a reduced Interhemispheric Mass Exchange (IME). Since the monsoonal IME acts as a bridge connecting EASM and SH circulation, the reduced IME weakens this connection. By performing freshwater hosing experiment using the Flexible Global Ocean—Atmosphere—Land System model, Grid-point Version 2 (FGOALS-g2), we show a weakened relationship between the EASM and SH circulation as in CCSM4 when AMOC collapses. Our results suggest that a substantially weakened AMOC is the main driver leading to the EASM, which is less affected by SH circulation in the future warmer climate.
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2011-05-20
... amended the December 2008 final rule to: (1) Create an additional marking option for identifying the IEP... transmit a no-defect DVIR to the IEP at the time the IME is returned to the IEP. The petitioners contend...
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PrIMe Next Frontier: Large, Multi-Dimensional Data Sets
2015-07-21
is provided below. 3.4.2 Entities Figure 4 is a diagram that represents the datatypes of objects/instances that are used within the...ajax({ type: ’GET’, url: .html’, dataType : ’text’, success: function(res) { $(’body’).append(res... dataType : ’script’, success: function() { if (++counter == libraries.length) createSpecWindow(callback
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Raadi on ime = Raadi is a miracle / Juhan Maiste
Maiste, Juhan, 1952-
2015-01-01
Raadi mõisa ja mõisnike ajaloost, kunsti kollektsioneerimisest ja Raadi kunstikogu tekkeloost. Peamaja, mõisaansambli ja pargi arhitektuuriloost ning interjöörist, välismaistest eeskujudest ja mõjutustest
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Lämmastikoksiid : nuhtlus ja ime / Allen Kaasik, Ave Minajeva
Kaasik, Allen, 1970-
1998-01-01
Nobeli füsioloogia- ja meditsiinipreemia said Robert Furchgott, Louis Ignarro ja Ferid Murad nitroglütseriini kui ravimi toimemehhanismi väljaselgitamise eest. Lämmastikoksiidi tähtsus nüüd ja tulevikus
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
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2015-07-01
The Annual report 2014/2015 of the Fraunhofer Institute for molecular biology and applied ecology includes the following contributions: (A) Molecular Biology: TheraSECOURE - Novel immunotherapeutics for targeted cancer therapy; ''MultiNaBel ''- Automated diagnosis of leukemia; Breeding potato for optimized specialty starches; NGS-based zygosity detection in transgenic maize; High-throughput screen ing system for cellulases based on microfluidic devices; Filter aids reduce production costs for plant-derived biopharmaceuticals; Transient expression of recombinant proteins in packed plant cells; ERA-NET Biodiversa EXOTIC project on the invasive harlequin ladybird; AIM-Biotech supported by the Fraunhofer-Max Planck Cooperation program; Metabolic control analysis of the MEP pathway; Metabolic engineering of Clostridium spp. by genomic integration; The Fraunhofer Future Foundation malaria project; Autoantibodies to type 11 collagen as biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis; Development of a new drug for the treatment of sepsis; Databionic drug research; Structure-based drug design; Neu{sup 2}: competence consortium for multiple sclerosis drug development; Natural compounds from marine fungi for the treatment of cancer; FCR Center for Systems Biotechnology (CSB): Two selected projects; Development and implementation of a plant-derived vaccine against yellow fever. (B) Applied Ecology: Comparison and improvement of laboratory water/sediment test systems; Inter-laboratory comparison of Hyalella Azteca exposure tests lasting 10-42 days; Substance- and matrix-related environmental monitoring of biocides; GERDA-geobased runoff, erosion and drainage risk assessment; The minimum detectable difference and reliability of mesocosm studies; Mechanistic effect models for the ecological risk assessment of pesticides; Molecular biology test for the online analysis of spontaneously-fermented wines; Coupling two test systems to determine the effect of wastewater-borne contaminants; Test strategies for nanomaterials in the environment and metabolism in animals.
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
NONE
2012-03-15
The Annual report 2011/2012 of the Fraunhofer Institute for molecular biology and applied ecology includes the following contributions: (A) Molecular Biology: Predictive markers for chronic inflammation. Artificial forisomes: a new generation of contractile biomaterials. A screening assay for the analysis of gene expression in tobacco. Plant-based production of human antibodies in 200-L-single-use bioreactors. Extending a core competence: antibody production in plants. Optimizing plant extract filtration in biopharmaceutical production processes. Malaria transmission-blocking vaccines. Anti-infective agents from the Asian lady beetle. Exploring the biotechnological potential of insect symbionts. Syngas - a platform fermentation substrate. (B) Ecology: Determination of microbial activity in liquid manure - a novel approach. Suitability of extraction methods to assess the bioavailability of mineral oil. Homogeneity of sampling areas. Extraction of higher-tier data from lysimeter studies using inversePELMO. PFC transfer into plants - contribution to EU-PERFOOD. Preparation of fortified experimental diets for fish metabolism studies. Prioritization of biocidal substances for an environmental monitoring. Transformation/dissolution testing - test system and speciation analysis. Fish early life stage toxicity of nanosilver. Biomagnification studies according to OECD test guideline 305. Aquatic macrophyte tests under the new plant protection regulations.
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Integrated Medical Model Project - Overview and Summary of Historical Application
Myers, J.; Boley, L.; Butler, D.; Foy, M.; Goodenow, D.; Griffin, D.; Keenan, A.; Kerstman, E.; Melton, S.; McGuire, K.;
2015-01-01
Introduction: The Integrated Medical Model (IMM) Project represents one aspect of NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) to quantitatively assess medical risks to astronauts for existing operational missions as well as missions associated with future exploration and commercial space flight ventures. The IMM takes a probabilistic approach to assessing the likelihood and specific outcomes of one hundred medical conditions within the envelope of accepted space flight standards of care over a selectable range of mission capabilities. A specially developed Integrated Medical Evidence Database (iMED) maintains evidence-based, organizational knowledge across a variety of data sources. Since becoming operational in 2011, version 3.0 of the IMM, the supporting iMED, and the expertise of the IMM project team have contributed to a wide range of decision and informational processes for the space medical and human research community. This presentation provides an overview of the IMM conceptual architecture and range of application through examples of actual space flight community questions posed to the IMM project. Methods: Figure 1 [see document] illustrates the IMM modeling system and scenario process. As illustrated, the IMM computational architecture is based on Probabilistic Risk Assessment techniques. Nineteen assumptions and limitations define the IMM application domain. Scenario definitions include crew medical attributes and mission specific details. The IMM forecasts probabilities of loss of crew life (LOCL), evacuation (EVAC), quality time lost during the mission, number of medical resources utilized and the number and type of medical events by combining scenario information with in-flight, analog, and terrestrial medical information stored in the iMED. In addition, the metrics provide the integrated information necessary to estimate optimized in-flight medical kit contents under constraints of mass and volume or acceptable level of mission risk. Results and Conclusions
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Procedural Justice and the Use of Independent Medical Evaluations in Workers’ Compensation
Kilgour, E.; Kosny, A.; Akkermans, A.J.; Collie, A.
2015-01-01
Workers’ compensation systems aim to service both employer and worker needs following workplace accidents; however, there is increasing debate about the influence of the compensation system itself on recovery of the injured worker. Independent medical examinations (IMEs) are one of the processes
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Ilon Wikland tööpuudust ei tunne / Janar Ala
Ala, Janar, 1979-
2009-01-01
Kunstnik Ilon Wikland külastas Eestit. Kinomajas esilinastus Wiklandist dokumentaalfilm (režissöörid John Hakalax ja Kim Finn) "Ma joonistan, seetõttu olen" ning müüki jõudis tema illustratsioonidega Leelo Tungla raamat "Jõuluajal juhtuvadki imed"
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Emir Kusturica filmiküla pälvis arhitektuuriauhinna / Maris Podekrat
Podekrat, Maris
2006-01-01
Serbia režissöör Emir Kusturica restaureeris oma filmi "Elu on ime" (Zivot je cudo) võttepaigaks valitud lagunenud Serbia mägiküla ja nimetas selle Küstendorfiks, pälvides Philippe Rotthier arhitektuuriauhinna. Kommentaar Emir Kusturicalt
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Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Wintecs
The banding principle. Sirthd guildi: OD Pinch rolli ... of the as-Cast slab accounting for some of the self lheating. The furtce very ..... Considerably lower financial investment Electric Lc furiaces have a tup-ID-ni ime of. Hround 60 min which ...
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Aryl-NHC-group 13 trimethyl complexes: structural, stability and bonding insights
Wu, Melissa M.; Gill, Arran M.; Yunpeng, Lu; Yongxin, Li; Ganguly, Rakesh; Falivene, Laura; Garcí a, Felipe
2016-01-01
Treatment of aromatic N-substituted N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with trimethyl-gallium and -indium yielded the new Lewis acid-base adducts, IMes·GaMe3 (1), SIMes·GaMe3 (2), IPr·GaMe3 (3), SIPr·GaMe3 (4), IMes·InMe3 (5), SIMes·InMe3 (6), IPr·InMe3 (7), and SIPr·InMe3 (8), with all complexes being identified by X-ray diffraction, IR, and multinuclear NMR analyses. Complex stability was found to be largely dependent on the nature of the constituent NHC ligands. Percent buried volume (%VBur) and topographic steric map analyses were employed to quantify and elucidate the observed trends. Additionally, a detailed bond snapping energy (BSE) decomposition analysis focusing on both steric and orbital interactions of the M-NHC bond (M = Al, Ga and In) has been performed.
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CT-scanning of ancient Greenlandic Inuit temporal bones
International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Homoe, P.; Videbaek, H.
1992-01-01
Additional morphological evidence of former infectious middle ear disease (IMED) was found by CT-scanning in 5 of 6 Greenlandic Inuit crania strongly suspected for former IMED due to earlier examination revealing either bilateral hypocellularity or asymmetry of the pneumatized area of the temporal bones. The CT-scans showed sclerosing and obliteration of the air cells and even destruction of the cellular septae, and a high degree of irregularity of the cells. Sclerosing of the surrounding bone tissue was also found. The findings in one cranium were dubious and could both be regarded as a congenital malformation or an infection in infanthood. CT-scan confirms and even adds to the results of conventional X-ray of temporal bones making hypotheses of paleopathology more reliable. The findings also support the environmental theory of pneumatization of the air cell system in the temporal bones. (13 refs., 10 figs.)
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CT-scanning of ancient Greenlandic Inuit temporal bones
Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Homoe, P [Copenhagen Univ. (Denmark). Lab. of Biological Anthropology and Dept. of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery; Lynnerup, N [Copenhagen Univ., Lab. of Biological Anthropology and Univ. Inst. of Ferensic Medicine, Copenhagen (Denmark); Videbaek, H [Hvidovre Univ. Hospital, Copenhagen (Denmark). Dept. of Radiology
1992-01-01
Additional morphological evidence of former infectious middle ear disease (IMED) was found by CT-scanning in 5 of 6 Greenlandic Inuit crania strongly suspected for former IMED due to earlier examination revealing either bilateral hypocellularity or asymmetry of the pneumatized area of the temporal bones. The CT-scans showed sclerosing and obliteration of the air cells and even destruction of the cellular septae, and a high degree of irregularity of the cells. Sclerosing of the surrounding bone tissue was also found. The findings in one cranium were dubious and could both be regarded as a congenital malformation or an infection in infanthood. CT-scan confirms and even adds to the results of conventional X-ray of temporal bones making hypotheses of paleopathology more reliable. The findings also support the environmental theory of pneumatization of the air cell system in the temporal bones. (13 refs., 10 figs.).
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Aryl-NHC-group 13 trimethyl complexes: structural, stability and bonding insights
Wu, Melissa M.
2016-12-14
Treatment of aromatic N-substituted N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with trimethyl-gallium and -indium yielded the new Lewis acid-base adducts, IMes·GaMe3 (1), SIMes·GaMe3 (2), IPr·GaMe3 (3), SIPr·GaMe3 (4), IMes·InMe3 (5), SIMes·InMe3 (6), IPr·InMe3 (7), and SIPr·InMe3 (8), with all complexes being identified by X-ray diffraction, IR, and multinuclear NMR analyses. Complex stability was found to be largely dependent on the nature of the constituent NHC ligands. Percent buried volume (%VBur) and topographic steric map analyses were employed to quantify and elucidate the observed trends. Additionally, a detailed bond snapping energy (BSE) decomposition analysis focusing on both steric and orbital interactions of the M-NHC bond (M = Al, Ga and In) has been performed.
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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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African Journals Online (AJOL)
Owner
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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Pasquina, Paul F; Evangelista, Melissa; Carvalho, A J; Lockhart, Joseph; Griffin, Sarah; Nanos, George; McKay, Patricia; Hansen, Morten; Ipsen, Derek; Vandersea, James; Butkus, Josef; Miller, Matthew; Murphy, Ian; Hankin, David
2015-04-15
Advanced motorized prosthetic devices are currently controlled by EMG signals generated by residual muscles and recorded by surface electrodes on the skin. These surface recordings are often inconsistent and unreliable, leading to high prosthetic abandonment rates for individuals with upper limb amputation. Surface electrodes are limited because of poor skin contact, socket rotation, residual limb sweating, and their ability to only record signals from superficial muscles, whose function frequently does not relate to the intended prosthetic function. More sophisticated prosthetic devices require a stable and reliable interface between the user and robotic hand to improve upper limb prosthetic function. Implantable Myoelectric Sensors (IMES(®)) are small electrodes intended to detect and wirelessly transmit EMG signals to an electromechanical prosthetic hand via an electro-magnetic coil built into the prosthetic socket. This system is designed to simultaneously capture EMG signals from multiple residual limb muscles, allowing the natural control of multiple degrees of freedom simultaneously. We report the status of the first FDA-approved clinical trial of the IMES(®) System. This study is currently in progress, limiting reporting to only preliminary results. Our first subject has reported the ability to accomplish a greater variety and complexity of tasks in his everyday life compared to what could be achieved with his previous myoelectric prosthesis. The interim results of this study indicate the feasibility of utilizing IMES(®) technology to reliably sense and wirelessly transmit EMG signals from residual muscles to intuitively control a three degree-of-freedom prosthetic arm. Copyright © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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77 FR 31815 - Hazardous Materials Regulations: Combustible Liquids
2012-05-30
... Comments Opposed to Harmonization and Granting Petitions P-1498 and P-1531 Commenters, such as the American Trucking Associations (ATA); American Petroleum Institute (API); Institute Makers of Explosives (IME... gallons) in a single packaging. Many commenters stress the difficulty of hiring seasonal, foreign workers...
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Weerasundara, Lakshika; Amarasekara, R W K; Magana-Arachchi, D N; Ziyath, Abdul M; Karunaratne, D G G P; Goonetilleke, Ashantha; Vithanage, Meththika
2017-04-15
The presence of bacteria and heavy metals in atmospheric deposition were investigated in Kandy, Sri Lanka, which is a typical city in the developing world with significant traffic congestion. Atmospheric deposition samples were analyzed for Al, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb which are heavy metals common to urban environments. Al and Fe were found in high concentrations due to the presence of natural sources, but may also be re-suspended by vehicular traffic. Relatively high concentrations of toxic metals such as Cr and Pb in dissolved form were also found. High Zn loads can be attributed to vehicular emissions and the wide use of Zn coated roofing materials. The metal loads in wet deposition showed higher concentrations compared to dry deposition. The metal concentrations among the different sampling sites significantly differ from each other depending on the traffic conditions. Industrial activities are not significant in Kandy City. Consequently, the traffic exerts high influence on heavy metal loadings. As part of the bacterial investigations, nine species of culturable bacteria, namely; Sphingomonas sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas monteilii, Klebsiella pneumonia, Ochrobactrum intermedium, Leclercia adecarboxylata, Exiguobacterium sp., Bacillus pumilus and Kocuria kristinae, which are opportunistic pathogens, were identified. This is the first time Pseudomonas monteilii and Ochrobactrum intermedium has been reported from a country in Asia. The culturable fraction constituted ~0.01 to 10%. Pigmented bacteria and endospore forming bacteria were copious in the atmospheric depositions due to their capability to withstand harsh environmental conditions. The presence of pathogenic bacteria and heavy metals creates potential human and ecosystem health risk. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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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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Pneumatization of the Temporal Bones in a Greenlandic Inuit Anthropological Material
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
Homøe, P; Lynnerup, N
1991-01-01
The degree of pneumatization of the temporal bones correlates with exposure during childhood and adolescence to infectious middle ear diseases (IMED), both acute and chronic. The pneumatized area as seen on cranial X-rays can be measured. This was applied to an anthropological material in order...
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2011-07-26
... adequate cost/benefit analysis in support of this final rule. In its appeal, IME questions why, in light of... safety benefit; compliance and inspection issues; excessive paperwork; fitness determinations; and the... has been penetrated by hackers. For clarification, the statement on PHMSAs website reads, ``We have...
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Integrated Medical Model Overview
Myers, J.; Boley, L.; Foy, M.; Goodenow, D.; Griffin, D.; Keenan, A.; Kerstman, E.; Melton, S.; McGuire, K.; Saile, L.;
2015-01-01
The Integrated Medical Model (IMM) Project represents one aspect of NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) to quantitatively assess medical risks to astronauts for existing operational missions as well as missions associated with future exploration and commercial space flight ventures. The IMM takes a probabilistic approach to assessing the likelihood and specific outcomes of one hundred medical conditions within the envelope of accepted space flight standards of care over a selectable range of mission capabilities. A specially developed Integrated Medical Evidence Database (iMED) maintains evidence-based, organizational knowledge across a variety of data sources. Since becoming operational in 2011, version 3.0 of the IMM, the supporting iMED, and the expertise of the IMM project team have contributed to a wide range of decision and informational processes for the space medical and human research community. This presentation provides an overview of the IMM conceptual architecture and range of application through examples of actual space flight community questions posed to the IMM project.
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Positivity and negativity of solutions to nXn weighted systems involving the Laplace operator on R^N
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Benedicte Alziary
2012-06-01
Full Text Available We consider the sign of the solutions of a $n imes n$ system defined on the whole space $mathbb{R}^N$, $Ngeq 3$ and a weight function $ho$ with a positive part decreasing fast enough, $$ -Delta U = lambda ho(x MU +F, $$ where $F$ is a vector of functions, $M$ is a $n imes n$ matrix with constant coefficients, not necessarily cooperative, and the weight function $ho$ is allowed to change sign. We prove that the solutions of the $nimes n$ system exist and then we prove the local fundamental positivity and local fundamental negativity of the solutions when $|lambdasigma_1-lambda_ho|$ is small enough, where $sigma_1$ is the largest eigenvalue of the constant matrix $M$ and $lambda_ho$ is the "principal" eigenvalue of $$ -Delta u = lambda ho(x u , quad lim_{|x|o infty} u(x = 0 ; quad u(x>0, quad xin mathbb{R}^N. $$
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1 Water Scarcity in Wetland Area within Kandi Block of West Bengal ...
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habitats representing a variety of shallow, vegetated systems ... turtles and bird species in the region (Burke et al., 2001; IUCN ... rural settlements and 93 villages. It is located ..... well as faunal richness has abruptly changed unexpectedly.
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DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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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Pneumatization and otitis media in Greenlandic Inuit before European colonization
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
Homøe, P; Lynnerup, N; Skovgaard, L T
1995-01-01
A total of 127 Greenlandic Inuit crania from before the European colonization of Greenland and deriving from the West (W), Southeast (SE), and Northeast (NE) coast of Greenland were examined for sequelae of infectious middle ear disease (IMED) and for a relationship between the size of the pneuma...
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Hokimatsh, mis muutis maailma / Paul Goble
Goble, Paul Alan, 1949-
2005-01-01
Mart Laari koostatud PÖFFi filmiprogrammist "külma sõja" ajal läänes loodud filmidest, mis kõige teravamalt näitavad nõukogude süsteemi inimvaenulikkust - "Kõige keelatumad". Teemaga seoses lähemalt Gavin O'Connori filmist "Ime" ("Miracle") : Ameerika Ühendriigid 2004
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Miks Cannes'is peab käima / Jaan Ruus
Ruus, Jaan, 1938-2017
2004-01-01
57. Cannes'i filmifestivalil nähtud filme - Sembene Ousmane'i "Moolaade" (Senegal), Agnes Jaoui "Vaata mind" (Prantsusmaa), John Nosseiteri dokumentaal "Mondovino" (USA), Pedro Almodovari "Halb haridus" (Hispaania), Emir Kusturica "Elu on ime" (Jugoslaavia/Prantsusmaa), Hirokazu Kore-Eda "Ükski ei tea" (Jaapan). Ka eesti produtsentide tegutsemisest filmiturul
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Teaching, learning and assessment of medical ethics at the UK medical schools.
Brooks, Lucy; Bell, Dominic
2017-09-01
To evaluate the UK undergraduate medical ethics curricula against the Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) recommendations; to identify barriers to teaching and assessment of medical ethics and to evaluate perceptions of ethics faculties on the preparation of tomorrow's doctors for clinical practice. Questionnaire survey of the UK medical schools enquiring about content, structure and location of ethics teaching and learning; teaching and learning processes; assessment; influences over institutional approach to ethics education; barriers to teaching and assessment; perception of student engagement and perception of student preparation for clinical practice. The lead for medical ethics at each medical school was invited to participate (n=33). Completed responses were received from 11/33 schools (33%). 73% (n=8) teach all IME recommended topics within their programme. 64% (n=7) do not include ethics in clinical placement learning objectives. The most frequently cited barrier to teaching was lack of time (64%, n=7), and to assessment was lack of time and suitability of assessments (27%, n=3). All faculty felt students were prepared for clinical practice. IME recommendations are not followed in all cases, and ethics teaching is not universally well integrated into clinical placement. Barriers to assessment lead to inadequacies in this area, and there are few consequences for failing ethics assessments. As such, tomorrow's patients will be treated by doctors who are inadequately prepared for ethical decision making in clinical practice; this needs to be addressed by ethics leads with support from medical school authorities. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/.
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Nii sünnib uus Vene ime - Skolkovo / Andres Reimer
Reimer, Andres
2010-01-01
President Medvedevi initsiatiivil rajatakse Venemaale uut teaduslinnakut. Skolkovo hakkab tegutsema infotehnoloogia, energeetika, telekommunikatsiooni, biomeditsiini ja tuumatehnoloogia valdkonnas. Skolkovo loomise kronoloogia; Skolkovo Arendamise Fondi nõukogu koosseis: Viktor Vekselberg, Craig Barrett, Vagit Alekperov, Anatoli Aleksandrov, Esko Aho, Martin Bouygues, Aleksander Galitski, Mihhail Kovaltšuk, Peter Löscher, Vladimir Raševski, Ratan Tata, John T. Chambers, Anatoli Tšybais, Eric E. Schmidt
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Käime katuseid mööda / Aale-Triinu Sonn
Sonn, Aale-Triinu
2005-01-01
Katuse kattematerjalidest. Vaatluse all kõrtest kate (roo- ja õlgkatus), puidust katus (laud-, laast-, pilbas-, sindel, kimm- ja tohtkatus), õitsev murukatkatus (mätas- ja muru- ehk kerghuumuskatus), kivikatus (keraamilised ja betoonkatusekivid, eterniit), teraskatus (valtsplekk, profiilplekk), bituumenkatus
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feets: feATURE eXTRACTOR for tIME sERIES
Cabral, Juan; Sanchez, Bruno; Ramos, Felipe; Gurovich, Sebastián; Granitto, Pablo; VanderPlas, Jake
2018-06-01
feets characterizes and analyzes light-curves from astronomical photometric databases for modelling, classification, data cleaning, outlier detection and data analysis. It uses machine learning algorithms to determine the numerical descriptors that characterize and distinguish the different variability classes of light-curves; these range from basic statistical measures such as the mean or standard deviation to complex time-series characteristics such as the autocorrelation function. The library is not restricted to the astronomical field and could also be applied to any kind of time series. This project is a derivative work of FATS (ascl:1711.017).
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75 FR 15613 - Hazardous Materials Transportation; Registration and Fee Assessment Program
2010-03-30
... recently recruited responders at the most basic level. In addition, training at more advanced levels is... encourage State, Tribal, and local agencies to provide more advanced training. The funding for HMEP grants...(e) of Federal hazmat law. IME asserts that this $4 million training program is a double taxation for...
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Convenient Transfer Semihydrogenation Methodology for Alkynes Using a PdII-NHC Precatalyst
Drost, R.M.; Bouwens, T.; van Leest, N.P.; de Bruin, B.; Elsevier, C.J.
2014-01-01
A convenient and easy-to-use protocol for the Z-selective transfer semihydrogenation of alkynes was developed, using ammonium formate as the hydrogen source and the easily prepared and commercially available, highly stable complex PdC1(eta(3)-C3H5)(IMes) (1) as the (pre)catalyst. Combined with
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Moskvas tasub vaadata vene filme / Kristiina Davidjants
Davidjants, Kristiina, 1974-
2009-01-01
Moskva 31. rahvusvahelise filmifestivalist. Auhinnatud filmidest : peauhinna Püha Jüri saajast Nikolai Dostali mängufilmist "Petja teel taevariiki", FIPRESCI poolt auhinnatud Kira Muratova filmist "Meloodia väntorelile",eriauhinna saanud Aleksandr Proškini filmist "Ime", Karen Šahnazarovi Tšehhovi ekraniseeringust "Palat nr. 6". Lisatud peaauhindade nimekiri
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Nigerian Journal of Paediatrics 2013;40(2)
African Journals Online (AJOL)
owner
2012-09-17
Sep 17, 2012 ... accounts for 25 % infant and 30 % childhood mortality in the country. 4 Results of randomized control trials ..... help ensure long-term treatment efficacy for the popula- tion. Authors contributions. FO: Contributed in ... With fond memory, we acknowledge the contribution of Late Mr. Ime Mkpang to this study, ...
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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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Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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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Wipf, Thomas
2007-01-01
25. märtsil 1957 alla kirjutatud rahvusvahelistest dokumentidest, mida tuntakse Rooma lepingute nime all. Lepingutel on oluline roll Euroopa poliitilisel ühendamisel. Lisatud: [Euroopa Liit tähistas 25. märtsil Rooma lepingute allkirjastamise 50. aastapäeva] ; [Evangeelsete Kirikute Osadusse Euroopas kuulub 105 kirikut]. Vt. samas: Kilp, Alar. Euroopa ime
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Selfhout, Maarten H. W.; Branje, Susan J. T.; Delsing, M.; ter Bogt, Tom F. M.; Meeus, Wim H. J.
2009-01-01
The current study examined the longitudinal associations of time spent on Internet activities for communication purposes (i.e., IM-ing) versus time spent on Internet activities for non-communication purposes (i.e., surfing) with depression and social anxiety, as well as the moderating role of perceived friendship quality in these associations.…
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80 aastat tagasi : Detsember 1928. 2 / Mati Märtin
Märtin, Mati
2008-01-01
Muusikasündmustest 80 aastat tagasi: Viljandi Koidu koori kontserdil Viljandi Jaani kirikus esitati muusikat Beethovenist Tobiase ja Türnpuni, 16. dets. Pärnu Eliisabeti kirikus hiljuti ülesseatud oreli heaks esinesid Ph. Lorenzsonn orelil ja H. Anderson tshellol ning tütarlaste gümnaasiumi laulukoor, Rakvere kirikus kandis kohalik kirikukoor ette Händeli oratooriumi "Messias" (solistideks Paula Brehm-Jürgenson, H. Kubu ja Karl Viitol, orelil Enn Võrk), 13. dets. toimus konsistooriumis liturgilise, agenda ja vaimuliku muusika komisjoni koosolek (kirikumuusikute kursuse kavaga esines August Topman), Tartu Ülikooli kiriku lauluseltsi Cantate Domino segakoor ja naiskoor esinesid jumalateenistustel Ülikooli kirikus, 13. dets. suri Tartu Jaani koguduse ja Saksa Meestelaulu Seltsi koorijuht Herman Johan Nikolai von Andrae
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Civilsamfundets ABC: H for Handling
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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)
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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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Jena, Babula
2016-09-01
The presence of the Kerguelen Plateau and surrounding bathymetric features has a strong influence on the persistently eastward flowing Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), resulting in enhancement of surface chlorophyll-a (Chl- a) in the downstream section of the plateau along the polar front (PF). The phenomenon is reported in this paper as the island mass effect (IME). Analysis of climatological Chl- a datasets from Aqua- Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (Aqua- MODIS) and Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) shows distinct bloomy plumes (Chl- a>0.5 mg/m3) during austral spring-summer spreading as far as ~1800 km offshore up to 98°E along the downstream of the north Kerguelen Plateau (NKP). Similar IME phenomena is apparent over the south Kerguelen Plateau (SKP) with the phytoplankton bloom extending up to 96.7°E, along the southern boundary of ACC. The IME phenomena are pronounced only during austral spring-summer period with the availability of light and sedimentary source of iron from shallow plateau to sea surface that fertilizes the mixed layer. The NKP bloom peaks with a maximum areal extent of 1.315 million km2 during December, and the SKP bloom peaks during January with a time lag of one month. The blooms exist for at least 4 months of a year and are significant both as the base of regional food web and for regulating the biogeochemical cycle in the Southern Ocean. Even though the surface water above the Kerguelen Plateau is rich in Chl- a, an exception of an oligotrophic condition dominated between NKP and SKP due to apparent intrusion of iron limited low phytoplankton regime waters from the Enderby basin through the northeastward Fawn Trough Current.
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Marketing: A Fair Opportunity for Promoting Information Literacy
Germain, Carol Anne
2007-01-01
Some faculty and administrators naively believe that undergraduates come to campus as information literate individuals since these students know how to use computers and the Internet. Yet, as librarians, they know that there is more to IL than surfing search engines, IMing, and word processing. So marketing IL becomes a very important task. This…
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Vittorio De Sica viis meistritööd / Aare Ermel
Ermel, Aare, 1957-2013
2008-01-01
DVD-st "Vittorio De Sica Masterpiece Collection", kus on peal itaalia filmirežissööri Vittorio De Sica viis teost: "Jalgratavargad" ("Ladri di biciclette", 1948), "Ime Milanos" ("Miraclo a milano", 1951), "Umberto D." (1952), "Eile täna, homme" ("Ieri, oggi, domani", 1963), "Ajatu filmikunst" ("Cinema senza tempo: Cosi e la vita", 2001)
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Proceedings – Mathematical Sciences | Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP), Caixa Postal 66281, São Paulo, CEP 05315-970, Brasil; Centre for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014, India; Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades, Universidade de São Paulo (EACH-USP), Rua Arlindo ...
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Directory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)
Subotić Siniša
2016-01-01
Full Text Available The goals of this research were to evaluate the Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS translation of the BIDR-6 scale, develop its short form, and to present its initial convergent/discriminative validation. The sample included 827 participants. MIRT CFA analysis revealed that fourfactor model (containing 32/40 items fits the data best, with Self-Deceptive Enhancement (SDE and Impression Management (IM both splitting into the denial (SD-D and IM-D and enhancement (SD-E and IM-E factors. Fit and item properties were generally mediocre. SD-D and IM-E subscales were the strongest sources of misfit, thus SD-E and IM-D subscales were retained in the short form, which had good fit and replicated almost all main patterns of associations with other variables of interest (e.g., HEXACO personality traits typically reported for the full SDE and IM scales in other research. Thus, 17-item BIDR-6 short form, containing only SD-E and IM-D subscales, is recommended for use in the BCS speaking area.
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International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
Kim, G; Morgan, M; Hahm, B K; Bhunia, A; Mun, J H; Om, A S
2008-01-01
Salmonella enteritidis outbreaks continue to occur, and S. enteritidis-related outbreaks from various food sources have increased public awareness of this pathogen. Conventional methods for pathogens detection and identification are labor-intensive and take days to complete. Some immunological rapid assays are developed, but these assays still require prolonged enrichment steps. Recently developed biosensors have shown great potential for the rapid detection of foodborne pathogens. To develop the biosensor, an interdigitated microelectrode (IME) was fabricated by using semiconductor fabrication process. Anti-Salmonella antibodies were immobilized based on avidin-biotin binding on the surface of the IME to form an active sensing layer. To increase the sensitivity of the sensor, three types of sensors that have different electrode gap sizes (2 μm, 5 μm, 10 μm) were fabricated and tested. The impedimetric biosensor could detect 10 3 CFU/mL of Salmonella in pork meat extract with an incubation time of 5 minutes. This method may provide a simple, rapid and sensitive method to detect foodborne pathogens
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Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDEWEB)
Kim, G [National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, 249 Seodun-dong, Suwon, Republic of Korea, 441-100 (Korea, Republic of); Morgan, M; Hahm, B K; Bhunia, A [Department of Food Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 (United States); Mun, J H; Om, A S [Department of Food and Nutrient, Hanyang University, 17 Haengdang-dong, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 133-791 (Korea, Republic of)], E-mail: giyoungkim@rda.go.kr
2008-03-15
Salmonella enteritidis outbreaks continue to occur, and S. enteritidis-related outbreaks from various food sources have increased public awareness of this pathogen. Conventional methods for pathogens detection and identification are labor-intensive and take days to complete. Some immunological rapid assays are developed, but these assays still require prolonged enrichment steps. Recently developed biosensors have shown great potential for the rapid detection of foodborne pathogens. To develop the biosensor, an interdigitated microelectrode (IME) was fabricated by using semiconductor fabrication process. Anti-Salmonella antibodies were immobilized based on avidin-biotin binding on the surface of the IME to form an active sensing layer. To increase the sensitivity of the sensor, three types of sensors that have different electrode gap sizes (2 {mu}m, 5 {mu}m, 10 {mu}m) were fabricated and tested. The impedimetric biosensor could detect 10{sup 3} CFU/mL of Salmonella in pork meat extract with an incubation time of 5 minutes. This method may provide a simple, rapid and sensitive method to detect foodborne pathogens.
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FTK: A Hardware Track Finder for the ATLAS Trigger System
Tompkins, L; The ATLAS collaboration
2013-01-01
The LHC experiments are preparing for instantaneous luminosities above $1 imes 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ as early as 2015. In order to select the rare events of interest in such dense environments, detailed event information is necessary. In particular, the highly granular single particle information of tracking detectors is crucial for the selection of isolated leptons, taus and b-jets in the face of large vertex multiplicities. We report on the developement of the ATLAS FastTracker (FTK), a hardware based track finder which will reconstruct all tracks with a momentum greater than 1 GeV/c up to luminosties of $3 imes 10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ at an event input rate of 100 kHz and a latency of a few hundred microseconds. The track information will be available to the Level 2 processors at the beginning of event processing. Significant progress towards a phased installation beginning in 2015 has been achieved. A pre-prototype of the pattern recognition board is taking data in the fall of 2012 and prototypes for all ...
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Excess molar volumes and viscosities of binary mixtures of some ...
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Unknown
... H T S, Aralaguppi M I and. Hansen K C 1994 J. Chem. Eng. Data 39 251. 43. Pal A and Kumar H 2001 Fluid Phase Equilibria 181 17. 44. Reed T M III and Taylor T E 1959 J. Phys. Chem. 63 58. 45. Meyer R, Meyer J, Metzer J and Peneloux A 1971 J. Chim. Phys. 68 406. 46. Palepu R, Oliver J and Mackinnon B 1985 Can.
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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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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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Tähistame Helen Kelleri 130. sünniaastapäeva
Keskküla, Raissa
2010-01-01
Helen Kellerist ja tema sünniaastapäeva tähistamisest, samuti Eesti Pimekurtide Tugiliidu ettevõtmistest: koostöölepingust Eesti Kujurite Ühendusega, punktkirjas väljaantud raamatust "Õppimise ime", Hilton/Perkins programmi kaasabil Eesti pimekurtide ja nägemis-liitpuudega lastega töötavate õpetajate ning töötajate koolitamiset
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Measurement of Piezoelectric Transformer Vibrations by Digital Holography
Czech Academy of Sciences Publication Activity Database
Psota, Pavel; Lédl, Vít; Doleček, Roman; Erhart, J.; Kopecký, V.
2014-01-01
Roč. 59, č. 9 (2014), s. 1962-1968 ISSN 0885-3010 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) ED2.1.00/03.0079 Institutional support: RVO:61389021 Keywords : digital holographic * ime-averaged holographic * small amplitude * vibrations amplitude measurement * piezoelectric transformer s Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering Impact factor: 1.512, year: 2014
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A new measurement of direct CP violation in two pion decays of the neutral kaon
Fanti, V.; Marras, D.; Musa, L.; Bevan, A.J.; Gershon, T.J.; Hay, B.; Moore, R.W.; Moore, K.N.; Munday, D.J.; Needham, M.D.; Parker, Michael Andrew; Takach, S.F.; White, T.O.; Wotton, S.A.; Barr, G.; Blumer, H.; Bocquet, G.; Bremer, J.; Ceccucci, A.; Cogan, J.; Cundy, D.; Doble, N.; Funk, W.; Gatignon, L.; Gianoli, A.; Gonidec, A.; Govi, G.; Grafstrom, P.; Kesseler, G.; Kubischta, W.; Lacourt, A.; Luitz, S.; Matheys, J.P.; Norton, A.; Palestini, S.; Panzer-Steindel, B.; Peyaud, B.; Schinzel, D.; Taureg, H.; Velasco, M.; Vossnack, O.; Wahl, Heinrich; Wirrer, G.; Gaponenko, A.; Kekelidze, V.; Madigozhin, D.; Mestvirishvili, A.; Potrebenikov, Yu.; Tatishvili, G.; Tkatchev, A.; Zinchenko, A.; Bertolotto, L.; Boyle, O.; Knowles, I.G.; Martin, V.J.; Parsons, H.L.C.; Peach, K.J.; Talamonti, C.; Contalbrigo, M.; Dalpiaz, P.; Duclos, J.; Formica, A.; Frabetti, P.L.; Martini, M.; Petrucci, F.; Savrie, M.; Bizzeti, A.; Calvetti, M.; Collazuol, G.; Graziani, G.; Iacopini, E.; Lenti, M.; Michetti, A.; Becker, H.G.; Buchholz, P.; Coward, D.H.; Ebersberger, C.; Fox, H.; Kalter, A.; Kleinknecht, K.; Koch, U.; Kopke, L.; Renk, B.; Scheidt, J.; Schmidt, J.; Schonharting, V.; Schue, Y.; Wilhelm, R.; Wittgen, M.; Chollet, J.C.; Crepe-Renaudin, Sabine; Fayard, L.; Iconomidou-Fayard, L.; Ocariz, J.; Unal, G.; Vattolo, D.; Wingerter-Seez, I.; Anzivino, G.; Bordacchini, F.; Cenci, P.; Lubrano, P.; Nappi, A.; Pepe, M.; Punturo, M.; Bertanza, L.; Bigi, A.; Calafiura, P.; Carosi, R.; Casali, R.; Cerri, C.; Cirilli, M.; Costantini, F.; Fantechi, R.; Giudici, S.; Gorini, B.; Mannelli, I.; Marzulli, V.; Pierazzini, G.; Raffaelli, F.; Sozzi, M.; Cheze, J.B.; De Beer, M.; Debu, P.; Granier de Cassagnac, R.; Hristov, P.; Mazzucato, E.; Schanne, S.; Turlay, R.; Vallage, B.; Augustin, I.; Bender, M.; Holder, M.; Ziolkowski, M.; Arcidiacono, R.; Biino, C.; Cester, R.; Marchetto, F.; Menichetti, Ezio A.; Pastrone, N.; Nassalski, J.; Rondio, E.; Szleper, M.; Wislicki, W.; Wronka, S.; Dibon, H.; Fischer, G.; Jeitler, M.; Markytan, M.; Mikulec, I.; Neuhofer, G.; Pernicka, M.; Taurok, A.
1999-01-01
The NA48 experiment at CERN has performed a new measurement of direct CP violation, based on data taken in 1997 by simultaneously collecting $kl$ and $ks$ decays into $pipin$ and $pipic$. The result for the CP violating parameter $ epr$ is $(18.5 pm 4.5 mathrm{(stat)} pm 5.8 mathrm{(syst)}) imes10^{-4}$.
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2010-08-20
... additional marking option for identifying the IEP responsible for the inspection, repair, and maintenance of... motor carriers to prepare and transmit a DVIR to the IEP at the time the IME is returned to the IEP even... no defects or deficiencies. The Agency notes that Sec. 390.40(d) of the FMCSRs requires an IEP to...
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Kadrina kandi loodus võlub Jaapani rikkaid pensionäre / Aarne Mäe
Mäe, Aarne, 1967-
2006-01-01
Tervisesalonge pidava kompanii president Noriko Matsumoto Tokyost rajab Kihlevere kanti jaapanlaste külla puhkemaja, edaspidi plaanib ta Virumaal välja arendada kõrgklassi puhkepiirkonnad, kuhu lisaks eramutele tulevad ka täiskasvanute kool, tervisekeskus, kauplused ning muu eluks ja puhkuseks vajalik
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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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Metabolic Engineering X Conference
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Flach, Evan [American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2015-05-07
The International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES) and the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), both technological communities of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), hosted the Metabolic Engineering X Conference (ME-X) on June 15-19, 2014 at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, British Columbia. It attracted 395 metabolic engineers from academia, industry and government from around the globe.
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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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Daniella Yeheskely-Hayon
Full Text Available In budding yeasts, the histone deacetylase Rpd3 resides in two different complexes called Rpd3L (large and Rpd3S (small that exert opposing effects on the transcription of meiosis-specific genes. By introducing mutations that disrupt the integrity and function of either Rpd3L or Rpd3S, we show here that Rpd3 function is determined by its association with either of these complexes. Specifically, the catalytic activity of Rpd3S activates the transcription of the two major positive regulators of meiosis, IME1 and IME2, under all growth conditions and activates the transcription of NDT80 only during vegetative growth. In contrast, the effects of Rpd3L depends on nutrients; it represses or activates transcription in the presence or absence of a nitrogen source, respectively. Further, we show that transcriptional activation does not correlate with histone H4 deacetylation, suggesting an effect on a nonhistone protein. Comparison of rpd3-null and catalytic-site point mutants revealed an inhibitory activity that is independent of either the catalytic activity of Rpd3 or the integrity of Rpd3L and Rpd3S.
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Donava in Sava pri Strabonu in v napisih
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Marjeta Šašel Kos
2010-12-01
Full Text Available V članku so zbrana in komentirana tista mesta v Strabonovi 7. knjigi, kjer piše o Donavi in Savi. Že Herodot je Donavo opredelil kot najpomembnejšo njemu znano reko; pri grških piscih se je zanjo uveljavilo tračansko ime Istros, ki se je tudi pozneje uporabljalo za spodnji tok Donave. Zgornji tok se je imenoval Danuvius/Danubius, ime je verjetno keltsko. Kot božanstvu so Danuviju postavljali oltarje; blizu sotočja Drave in Donave so skupaj z njim počastili tudi boga Drava. Savo je poosebljal bog Savus, ki so ga častili ob zgornjem, nevarnejšem toku reke do Siscije. Skupaj z Adsaluto sta imela svetišče nad brzicami pri Podkraju nasproti Hrastnika, blizu območja nevarnih slapov. Strabon poleg drugih rek dvakrat omenja sicer neznani Noar, ki so ga enačili s celo vrsto rek, med drugim tudi z Odro, vendar je natančna analiza Strabonovega besedila pokazala, da gre lahko le za spodnji tok Save. Izviri Save Dolinke v Zelencih pri Podkorenu so bili sveti kraj, kjer so častili Saverkno.
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Yeheskely-Hayon, Daniella; Kotler, Anat; Stark, Michal; Hashimshony, Tamar; Sagee, Shira; Kassir, Yona
2013-01-01
In budding yeasts, the histone deacetylase Rpd3 resides in two different complexes called Rpd3L (large) and Rpd3S (small) that exert opposing effects on the transcription of meiosis-specific genes. By introducing mutations that disrupt the integrity and function of either Rpd3L or Rpd3S, we show here that Rpd3 function is determined by its association with either of these complexes. Specifically, the catalytic activity of Rpd3S activates the transcription of the two major positive regulators of meiosis, IME1 and IME2, under all growth conditions and activates the transcription of NDT80 only during vegetative growth. In contrast, the effects of Rpd3L depends on nutrients; it represses or activates transcription in the presence or absence of a nitrogen source, respectively. Further, we show that transcriptional activation does not correlate with histone H4 deacetylation, suggesting an effect on a nonhistone protein. Comparison of rpd3-null and catalytic-site point mutants revealed an inhibitory activity that is independent of either the catalytic activity of Rpd3 or the integrity of Rpd3L and Rpd3S. PMID:24358376
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Improving Robot Locomotion Through Learning Methods for Expensive Black-Box Systems
2013-11-01
in an industrial process, or the prescribed dosage of a drug during development. Definition (Environment Parameter). The environment parameter space...line indicates the deviation of this approximation from the original (right axis scale). The secondary gradient descent optimization over the linear...done through gradient descent on the representational error, cycling through all points one at a. t ime until convergence is reached. Figure 7.5 shows
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Noor film oli jumekas / Jaan Ruus
Ruus, Jaan, 1938-2017
2006-01-01
8. Eesti filmi päevade võistluskavas osales 40 filmi. Parimaks mängufilmiks valiti "Tühirand" (režii Veiko Õunpuu). Enim vaadatud filmi auhinna sai Vladimir Karassev-Orgussaare mängufilm "Lindpriid" (1971). Huvitavad filmid on veel "Tabamata ime" (6 režissööri lühifilmid), Kullar Viimse "Sunnitud", Rein Kotovi "6 tundi", Pärtel Talli "Teatriporgand"
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Mis on fotograafia teooria? / Peeter Linnap
Linnap, Peeter, 1960-
2007-01-01
Eri kultuurivaldkondade esindajate uurimused fotograafiast. Neli diskursust fotograafia käsitamisel. Teooriate ajaloost: foto-kui-ime periood, fotograafia leiutamine - pragmaatika ja fantaasiad, modernism fotograafia teooriates, semiootika ja fotograafia. Kaasaegsete fototeooriate tunnusjooni. New Left ja fotograafiline pildiesitlus. Reklaam kui kodanlik-liberaalne ideoloogia. Vasakpoolsetest metoodikatest: "väljendus ja tähendus". Opositsiooniliste teooriate saavutustest. Viimased arengud fototeoorias. Ilmunud ka ajalehes "Sirp", 2001, 10. ja 17. august
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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
DEFF Research Database (Denmark)
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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Evaluation of methods for assessment of esophageal motility disorders
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Endert, G.; Nagel, F.; Erler, M.; Hasse, C.; Ritter, E.P.; Nowak, W.
1990-01-01
The purpose of this study is to compare two forms of parametric imaging of esophageal motility, the condensed image and the esophageal kinetogram, with a standard esophageal transit study in 64 patients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease. The diagnosis was confirmed by endoscopy. A multiple swallow test with a liquid tracer of 150 MBq 99m Tc-DTPA was used. During the investigation-time of 9 min 300 pictures were recorded and with the KANDI DS-system the parametric images generated and the clearance time, the transit time and the index of reflux were determined. The comparison of kinetogram and condensed image shows a higher sensitivity to detect functional disturbances in the multiple swallow test (kinetogram). In the diagnosis of the reflux disease the transit study and the parametric imaging demonstrated a comparable sensitivity. (orig.)
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Heriyanto Heriyanto
2016-12-01
Full Text Available This research generally aims to analyze the behavior of food consumption source of carbohydrate, specifically, this study aims to analyze the dominant factor and analyze the response of food consumption expenditure dominant source of carbohydrate for factors that influence it. To answer this research purpose built models Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS were analyzed by methods Seemingly Unreleated Regression (SUR. Food commodities sources of carbohydrates are included in the model to include five commodities (commodity groups, include: rice, yam, noodles, cassava and potatoes. The results showed that the higher the income level, the proportion of food expenditure of commodities as rice, yam, noodles, cassava, and potatoes tend to increase. Meanwhile, the higher the mother's education the more domestic rice consumption, while consumption of yam noodles, cassava and potatoes tend to decline. The analysis showed that the price elasticity of its own for the entire commodity observed negative sign except cassava and yams and potatoes only the value of elasticity is greater than one. This indicates that the commodity consumption expenditures yams and potatoes are responsive to changes in its price. Similarly, the cross-price elasticities show the value of elasticity (in absolute value with cassava yams and potatoes is greater than one, means commodity consumption expenditures yams are responsive to changes in prices of other commodities. Meanwhile, the income elasticity shows two commodities that have an income elasticity greater than one, which is the income elasticity for commodities noodles, and cassava. From these findings it can be stated that the policies related to revenue-raising efforts should be made to boost household consumption, especially consumption of palm oil farmers noodles and cassava, while the price control policy needs to be done to increase the consumption of yams.
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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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Supplementary data: The m olecular genetic basis of age-related ...
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
Supplementary data, J. Genet. 88, 425–449. Ta b le. 1. (contd. ) S tudy. Age g roup. All. E arly. Intermediate. Advanced. Associated. P opulatio n. S ub groups. L o catio n. (T ime frame). P articip ants. (N. ) (Y r). A. MD. A. M. D. A. MD. A. M. D risk factor. P valu e. O. R. (95%CI). R eference. Icelandic. Iceland. R eykjav ik ey e.
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Roadmap for Navy Family Research.
1980-08-01
09 NAVY FAMIILIES *11* I.- Study *conosical, psychological , and social " rank * duŕ military "areer " employment status . extent of of spouse family...Study ha o. thmfpeect of relocation o familis series with: I I a frequency and t iming of SBANCE *, acconpanied vs. umaccompaiad URE tours alevel of...UNDERSTANDING IMPACT OF RELOCATION ON NAVY FAMILIES AREA 1: STUDY ECONOMICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL , AND SOCIAL IMPACT ON DIFFERENT FAMILY MEMBERS, FOR
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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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Fraunhofer Institut fuer Molekularbiologie und Angewandte Oekologie (IME). Annual report 2014/2015
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2015-01-01
The Annual report 2014/2015 of the Fraunhofer Institute for molecular biology and applied ecology includes the following contributions: (A) Molecular Biology: TheraSECOURE - Novel immunotherapeutics for targeted cancer therapy; ''MultiNaBel ''- Automated diagnosis of leukemia; Breeding potato for optimized specialty starches; NGS-based zygosity detection in transgenic maize; High-throughput screen ing system for cellulases based on microfluidic devices; Filter aids reduce production costs for plant-derived biopharmaceuticals; Transient expression of recombinant proteins in packed plant cells; ERA-NET Biodiversa EXOTIC project on the invasive harlequin ladybird; AIM-Biotech supported by the Fraunhofer-Max Planck Cooperation program; Metabolic control analysis of the MEP pathway; Metabolic engineering of Clostridium spp. by genomic integration; The Fraunhofer Future Foundation malaria project; Autoantibodies to type 11 collagen as biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis; Development of a new drug for the treatment of sepsis; Databionic drug research; Structure-based drug design; Neu 2 : competence consortium for multiple sclerosis drug development; Natural compounds from marine fungi for the treatment of cancer; FCR Center for Systems Biotechnology (CSB): Two selected projects; Development and implementation of a plant-derived vaccine against yellow fever. (B) Applied Ecology: Comparison and improvement of laboratory water/sediment test systems; Inter-laboratory comparison of Hyalella Azteca exposure tests lasting 10-42 days; Substance- and matrix-related environmental monitoring of biocides; GERDA-geobased runoff, erosion and drainage risk assessment; The minimum detectable difference and reliability of mesocosm studies; Mechanistic effect models for the ecological risk assessment of pesticides; Molecular biology test for the online analysis of spontaneously-fermented wines; Coupling two test systems to determine the effect of wastewater-borne contaminants; Test strategies for nanomaterials in the environment and metabolism in animals.
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Omamoodi ime - ilmunud on eesti-läti sõnaraamat / Lembit Vaba
Vaba, Lembit 1945-
2015-01-01
Arvustus: Igauņu-latviešu vārdnīca / Latviešu valodas aģentūra ; sastādītāji: Valts Ernštreits, Marika Muzikante, Maima Grīnberga = Eesti-läti sõnaraamat / Läti keele agentuur ; koostajad: Valts Ernštreits, Marika Muzikante, Maima Grīnberga. Rīga ; Tallinn : Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015
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Using interactive multimedia e-Books for learning blood cell morphology in pediatric hematology.
Hsiao, Chih-Cheng; Tiao, Mao-Meng; Chen, Chih-Cheng
2016-11-14
This prospective study compares the use of interactive multimedia eBooks (IME) with traditional PowerPoint (TPP) for teaching cell morphology of blood and bone marrow. Fifty-one interns from three Taiwan medical schools training by a single teacher in the pediatric hematology department of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, participated in this study. 25 interns were allocated for training with a traditional PowerPoint atlas and 26 interns for training with an interactive multimedia eBook atlas. Learning outcomes were examined by pre-test and post-test using the CellQuiz of CellAtlas App. Attitudes and perceptions were collected by survey questions regarding interest, motivation and effectiveness. There was no difference in the pre-test scores between TPP and IME groups (mean score 27.0 versus 27.9, p = 0.807). However, the interns in the interactive multimedia eBook group achieved significantly better scores in the post-test than the ones in the PowerPoint group (mean score 103.2 versus 70.6; p < 0.001). Overall results of interest, motivation and effectiveness were strongly positive in the multimedia eBook group. Our data supports that interactive multimedia eBooks are more effective than PowerPoint to facilitate learning of cell morphology of blood and bone marrow.
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Bill, K.H.; Semsch, M. [Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany). Fachgebiet Fahrzeugtechnik
1998-01-01
Electric brake systems and components are increasing in importance due to the easy wheel-selective operation in future vehicle concepts. Building electric brake systems economically is decisively dependent on the availability of wheel brakes suitable in terms of dynamic behaviour, energy requirements, space, size, reliability and costs. In particular, the coupling of the transducer and friction brake by means of a suitable gear system adapted to the requirements of a vehicle brake represents a problem which has not yet been satisfactorily solved. In Subproject B6 of the Sonderforschungsbereich 241-IMES, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, research on new mechatronic brake systems is being conducted at the Automotive Engineering Department of Darmstadt University. (orig.) [Deutsch] Elektrische Bremssysteme und Komponenten gewinnen durch den leicht durchfuehrbaren radselektiven Eingriff bei kuenftigen Fahrzeugkonzepten eine zunehmende Bedeutung. Die wirtschaftliche Realisierung elektrischer Bremssysteme wird massgeblich von der Verfuegbarkeit geeigneter Radbremsen im Hinblick auf Dynamikverhalten, Energiebedarf, Bauraum, Masse, Zuverlaessigkeit und Kosten abhaengen. Besonders die Kopplung von Autor und Reibungsbremse durch ein geeignetes, an die Erfordernisse einer Fahrzeugbremse angepasstes Getriebesystem stellt ein bisher noch nicht befriedigend geloestes Problem dar. Im Teilprojekt B6 des Sonderforschungsbereiches 241-IMES, gefoerdert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, werden hierzu an der Technischen Universitaet Darmstadt (TUD), Fachgebiet Fahrzeugtechnik, mechatronische Bremssysteme entwickelt. (orig.)
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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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Trends in Spending by the Department of Defense for Operation and Maintenance
2017-01-01
funding across DoD has occurred at the ime that the number of military personnel er stayed relatively flat or fallen. As a result, spending for each... military personnel and their families, see Congressional Budget Office, Approaches to Reducing Federal Spending on Military Health Care (January...MAINTENANCE BETWEEN 1980 AND 2015 TRENDS IN SPENDING BY ibit 1. D’s Base Budget by Type of Appropriation, 1980 to 2015 ions of 2015 Dollars Military Personnela
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Spatial Disorientation in Flight: Current Problems
1980-10-01
cho-affective or psycho- social situation and type of mission and on the other hand di sturbances if any; - the third part refers to the correlation...Teoniche Mondadori 1970 2. - R.CANESTRAUI - "Problemi di psicologia " -Ed. Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice, Bologna, Italy 3. - R.CAPORALE...orientamenti e problemi in materia di Psicologia degli Allie- vi piloti" -Rivista IMed. Aeron. e Spaz., )OQCV,n. 3-4,1972 19. - F. SPARVIERI
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Non-linear ultrasonic time-reversal mirrors in NDT
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Převorovský, Zdeněk
-, č. 4 (2012), s. 4-4 [World Conference on Nondestructive Testing /18./. 16.4.2012-20.4.2012, Durban] R&D Projects: GA MPO(CZ) FR-TI1/274; GA MPO(CZ) FR-T1/198; GA ČR(CZ) GAP104/10/1430 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z2076919 Keywords : non-linear ime reversal mirror * ultrasonic techniques * ESAM Subject RIV: BI - Acoustics http://www.academia-ndt.org/Downloads/AcademiaNews4.pdf
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1982-05-01
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Evaluation of methods for assessment of esophageal motility disorders
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Endert, G.; Nagel, F.; Erler, M.; Hasse, C.; Ritter, E.P.; Nowak, W. (Medical Academy Erfurt, Clinic of Radiology and Clinic of Surgery (Germany))
1990-01-01
The purpose of this study is to compare two forms of parametric imaging of esophageal motility, the condensed image and the esophageal kinetogram, with a standard esophageal transit study in 64 patients with gastro-esophageal reflux disease. The diagnosis was confirmed by endoscopy. A multiple swallow test with a liquid tracer of 150 MBq {sup 99m}Tc-DTPA was used. During the investigation-time of 9 min 300 pictures were recorded and with the KANDI DS-system the parametric images generated and the clearance time, the transit time and the index of reflux were determined. The comparison of kinetogram and condensed image shows a higher sensitivity to detect functional disturbances in the multiple swallow test (kinetogram). In the diagnosis of the reflux disease the transit study and the parametric imaging demonstrated a comparable sensitivity. (orig.).
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Mann, S; Leal Yepes, F A; Overton, T R; Lock, A L; Lamb, S V; Wakshlag, J J; Nydam, D V
2016-02-01
The objective was to investigate the effect of different dry cow feeding strategies on the volume, concentration of IgG and insulin, as well as fatty acid composition of colostrum. Our hypothesis was that different dry period diets formulated to resemble current feeding practices on commercial dairy farms and differing in plane of energy would have an effect on IgG and insulin concentration, as well as composition of fatty acid of colostrum. Animals (n=84) entering parity 2 or greater were dried off 57 d before expected parturition and fed either a diet formulated to meet, but not greatly exceed energy requirements throughout the dry period (CON), or a higher energy density diet, supplying approximately 150% of energy requirements (HI). A third group received the same diet as group CON from dry-off until 29 d before expected parturition. After this time point, from 28 d before expected parturition until calving, they received a diet formulated to supply approximately 125% of energy requirements (I-med). Concentration of IgG and insulin in colostrum were measured by radial immunodiffusion and RIA, respectively. Composition of fatty acids was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. The IgG concentration was highest in colostrum of cows in group CON [96.1 (95% CI: 83.3-108.9) g/L] and lowest in group HI [72.4 (60.3-84.5) g/L], whereas insulin concentration was highest in group HI [1,105 (960-1,250) μU/mL] and lowest in group CON [853 (700-1,007) μU/mL]. Colostrum yield did not differ between treatments and was 5.9 (4.5-7.4), 7.0 (5.6-8.4), and 7.3 (5.9-8.7) kg in groups CON, I-med, and HI, respectively. A multivariable linear regression model showed the effect of dietary treatment group on IgG concentration was independent of the effect of dry matter. Cows in groups CON, I-med, and HI had an average colostral fat percentage of 5.0 (4.1-5.9), 5.6 (4.8-6.4), and 6.0 (5.2-6.8) and an average fat yield of 289 (196-380), 406 (318-495), and 384 (295-473) g, respectively
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Peh, Guang-Rong; Kantchev, Eric Assen B; Zhang, Chi; Ying, Jackie Y
2009-05-21
The wide dissemination of catalytic protocols in academic and industrial laboratories is facilitated by the development of catalysts that are not only highly active but also user-friendly, stable to moisture, air and long term storage and easy to prepare on a large scale. Herein we describe a protocol for the Heck-Mizoroki reaction mediated by cyclopalladated N,N-dimethylbenzylamine (dmba) ligated with a N-heterocyclic carbene, 1,3-bis(mesityl)imidazol-2-ylidene (IMes), that fulfils these criteria. The precatalyst can be synthesized on approximately 100 g scale by a tri-component, sequential, one-pot reaction of N,N-dimethylbenzylamine, PdCl2 and IMes.HCl in refluxing acetonitrile in air in the presence of K2CO3. This single component catalyst is stable to air, moisture and long term storage and can be conveniently dispensed as a stock solution in NMP. It mediates the Heck-Mizoroki reaction of a range of aryl- and heteroaryl bromides in reagent grade NMP at the 0.1-2 mol% range without the need for rigorous anhydrous techniques or a glovebox, and is active even in air. The catalyst is capable of achieving very high levels of catalytic activity (TON of up to 5.22 x 10(5)) for the coupling of a deactivated arylbromide, p-bromoanisole, with tBu acrylate as a benchmark substrate pair. A wide range of aryl bromides, iodides and, for the first time with a NHC-Pd catalyst, a triflate was coupled with diverse acrylate derivatives (nitrile, tert-butyl ester and amides) and styrene derivatives. The use of excess (>2 equiv.) of the aryl bromide and tert-butyl acrylate leads to mixture of tert-butyl beta,beta-diarylacrylate and tert-butyl cinnamate derivatives depending on the substitution pattern of the aryl bromide. Electron rich m- and p-substituted arylbromides give the diarylated products exclusively, whereas electron-poor aryl bromides give predominantly mono-arylated products. For o-substituted aryl bromides, no doubly arylated products could be obtained under any
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Distributed Tactical Decision Support by Using Real-Time Database System
1987-11-01
appendix A and detailed in depth in the Advanced Combat Direction System Specification (reference 5). The assumption is that ’ ime 0 (TO) of any contact...CONSTELLATION LAUNCH I F14A CAPM 330 350 10000 STOP At simulated engagement minute 30. the following orders are next submitted to the event generator...time of contact (ETC). There is the assumption in the ETC calculation that COURSE will change such that the new report would be on a dead- reckoning
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Qualitative properties of solutions to semilinear heat equations with singular initial data
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Junjie Li
2004-04-01
Full Text Available This article concerns the nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem $$displaylines{ u_t - Delta u + b(x,t|u|^{p-1}u = 0 quad hbox{in } mathbb{R}^N imes (0,{infty}, cr u(x,0 = u_0(x quad mbox{in } mathbb{R}^N ,. }$$ We investigate how the comparison principle, extinction in finite time, instantaneous shrinking of support, and existence of solutions depend on the behaviour of the coefficient $b(x,t$.
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A bifurcation result for Sturm-Liouville problems with a set-valued term
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Georg Hetzer
1998-11-01
Full Text Available It is established in this note that $-(ku''+g(cdot,uin mu F(cdot,u$, $u'(0=0=u'(1$, has a multiple bifurcation point at $ (0, 0}$ in the sense that infinitely many continua meet at $(0,0$. $F$ is a ``set-valued representation'' of a function with jump discontinuities along the line segment $[0,1]imes{0}$. The proof relies on a Sturm-Liouville version of Rabinowitz's bifurcation theorem and an approximation procedure.
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Uvajanje metodologije Scrum v majhno podjetje za razvoj spletnih aplikacij
SIMČIČ, UROŠ
2016-01-01
Diplomsko delo opisuje uvajanje metodologije Scrum v manjše podjetje, ki se ukvarja z razvojem spletnih strani in aplikacij, ter analizira, do katere stopnje je podjetje usvojilo predpisane prakse in kateri faktorji so imeli na to največji vpliv. V uvodnih poglavjih je teoretično predstavljeno splošno vodenje projektov in vodenje projektov z agilno metodologijo Scrum. Sledi praktični primer uvajanja metodologije Scrum, kjer so na projektu dodelave spletne aplikacije opisani uporabljen...
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Global well-posedness for the radial defocusing cubic wave equation on $R^3$ and for rough data
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Tristan Roy
2007-11-01
Full Text Available We prove global well-posedness for the radial defocusing cubic wave equation $$displaylines{ partial_{tt} u - Delta u = -u^{3} cr u(0,x = u_{0}(x cr partial_{t} u(0,x = u_{1}(x }$$ with data $(u_0, u_1 in H^{s} imes H^{s-1}$, $1 > s >7/10$. The proof relies upon a Morawetz-Strauss-type inequality that allows us to control the growth of an almost conserved quantity.
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Caliban : [luuletused] / Lörinc Szab̤ ; tlk. Ellen Niit
Szab̤, Lörinc
2004-01-01
Sisu: Caliban ; Paani kingitus ; Mütoloogia ; Ei puutu sind, vaid vaatan, kuidas magad ; Kõik mittemillegi eest ; Jütsist saab hiiglane ; Separaatrahu ; Palve laste eest ; SIRTSUSIRIN : Rahulik ime ; Mu isa ; Veduriga ; Mu ema laulis ; Emad ; Mis öelnuksin ; Su nimi ; Mu isa surm ; Südametromboos, Tihany ; Miskolci puukirikus ; KAHEKÜMNE KUUES AASTA : Et pole sind ; Kahekümne kahe aastane ; Nüüd ainult vaimus ; Nagu haldjas! ; Ei iial ; Mozartit kuulates. Andmeid autori kohta lk. 45-46
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1986-02-01
souries of radio andrada emsin in theevironment. heSO syte prvie va.luableemt gter cla&-,tfication intformation "*to the hoot platform’s Commtand and...inforsation is available, only its essence need be rapeited here. Aircraft The principal attack aircraft Involved in CAS will be the AV-aB, A-61, and F/A-18...de systIme automatics. En effet . It systime expert slpare clairement I* savoir-faire (bass de connaissence) de IPenimation informatique (le moteur
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Guzmán Pablo E.
2016-03-01
Full Text Available The Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP of second-generation dendronized monomers is described. Using the highly active and fast-initiating third-generation ruthenium complex [(H2IMes(pyr2Cl2RuCHPh], moderate to high molecular weight polymers (430-2230 kDa are efficiently synthesized with low dispersities (Ð = 1.01-1.17. This study highlights the power of the metathesis approach toward polymer synthesis in a context where monomer structure can significantly impede polymerization.
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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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Using interactive multimedia e-Books for learning blood cell morphology in pediatric hematology
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Chih-Cheng Hsiao
2016-11-01
Full Text Available Abstract Background This prospective study compares the use of interactive multimedia eBooks (IME with traditional PowerPoint (TPP for teaching cell morphology of blood and bone marrow. Methods Fifty-one interns from three Taiwan medical schools training by a single teacher in the pediatric hematology department of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, participated in this study. 25 interns were allocated for training with a traditional PowerPoint atlas and 26 interns for training with an interactive multimedia eBook atlas. Learning outcomes were examined by pre-test and post-test using the CellQuiz of CellAtlas App. Attitudes and perceptions were collected by survey questions regarding interest, motivation and effectiveness. Results There was no difference in the pre-test scores between TPP and IME groups (mean score 27.0 versus 27.9, p = 0.807. However, the interns in the interactive multimedia eBook group achieved significantly better scores in the post-test than the ones in the PowerPoint group (mean score 103.2 versus 70.6; p < 0.001. Overall results of interest, motivation and effectiveness were strongly positive in the multimedia eBook group. Conclusions Our data supports that interactive multimedia eBooks are more effective than PowerPoint to facilitate learning of cell morphology of blood and bone marrow.
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Jin, Liang; Zhang, Kai; Sternglanz, Rolf; Neiman, Aaron M
2017-05-01
In response to starvation, diploid cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergo meiosis and form haploid spores, a process collectively referred to as sporulation. The differentiation into spores requires extensive changes in gene expression. The transcriptional activator Ndt80 is a central regulator of this process, which controls many genes essential for sporulation. Ndt80 induces ∼300 genes coordinately during meiotic prophase, but different mRNAs within the NDT80 regulon are translated at different times during sporulation. The protein kinase Ime2 and RNA binding protein Rim4 are general regulators of meiotic translational delay, but how differential timing of individual transcripts is achieved was not known. This report describes the characterization of two related NDT80 -induced genes, PES4 and MIP6 , encoding predicted RNA binding proteins. These genes are necessary to regulate the steady-state expression, translational timing, and localization of a set of mRNAs that are transcribed by NDT80 but not translated until the end of meiosis II. Mutations in the predicted RNA binding domains within PES4 alter the stability of target mRNAs. PES4 and MIP6 affect only a small portion of the NDT80 regulon, indicating that they act as modulators of the general Ime2/Rim4 pathway for specific transcripts. Copyright © 2017 American Society for Microbiology.
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Martinez, M.; Saez, J.M.; Garcia-Medina, V.
1997-01-01
We present a bibliometric analysis of the publications of the journal Radiologia between 1984 and 1993 to contribute to the study of radiodiagnostics reporting in Spain and to determine the importance of Radiologia as a source of information on this subject. We have used the database of the Spanish Medical Index (Indice Medico Espanol, IME) and the journal itself, analyzing the volume, course and distribution of publications on radiodiagnostic procedures. The journal Radiologia publishes 20.1% of the articles dealing with radiology and radiation therapy in Spain. The total number of works was 1,344, that of authors was 2,580 and that of signatures was 6.173, presenting an exponential growth with doubling times of 83.3, 8.5 and 7.4 years, respectively. The analysis shows that the journal's production not only increases over time, but also increments the proportion it contributes to the Spanish medical press as a whole. Radiologia is the most representative journal, in terms of volume of the scientific activity reported in the field of radiodiagnostics in Spain, and its production tends to adapt to the model established for other firmly consolidated scientific and medical disciplines. It alone constitutes the core of the medical journals devoted to radiology and its mean index of circulation according to the IME is 85.79/%. (Author) 34 refs
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Kim, Hye Jin; Kim, Jinsik; Yoo, Yong Kyoung; Lee, Jeong Hoon; Park, Jung Ho; Hwang, Kyo Seon
2016-11-15
Effective control of nano-scale biomolecules can enhance the sensitivity and limit of detection of an interdigitated microelectrode (IME) sensor. Manipulation of the biomolecules by dielectrophoresis (DEP), especially the negative DEP (nDEP) force, so that they are trapped between electrodes (sensing regions) was predicted to increase the binding efficiency of the antibody and target molecules, leading to a more effective reaction. To prove this concept, amyloid beta 42 (Aβ42) and prostate specific antigen (PSA) protein were respectively trapped between the sensing region owing to the nDEP force under 5V and 0.05V, which was verified with COMSOL simulation. Using the simulation value, the resistance change (ΔR/Rb) of the IME sensor from the specific antibody-antigen reaction of the two biomolecules and the change in fluorescence intensity were compared in the reference (pDEP) and nDEP conditions. The ΔR/Rb value improved by about 2-fold and 1.66-fold with nDEP compared to the reference condition with various protein concentrations, and these increases were confirmed with fluorescence imaging. Overall, nDEP enhanced the detection sensitivity for Aβ42 and PSA by 128% and 258%, respectively, and the limit of detection improved by up to 2-orders of magnitude. These results prove that DEP can improve the biosensor's performance. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Test and Evaluation Report of the IMED Volumetric Infusion Pump Model 960A
1992-02-01
tested Ambient tempera- ture was out of test lim- its. Windshield anti-ice X Pitot heat X Vent blower X Windshield wiper X Heater X APU X Generator #1 X...Patterson John A. Dellinger, Air Force Base, OH 45433 Southwest Research Institute P. 0. Box 28510 Henry L. Taylor San Antonio, TX 78284 Director
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Performance Calculations - and Appendix I - Model XC-120 (M-107)
1950-09-25
time oonsumed in warm-wp, take-off, climb, and aruino. 6. Plight time is 1ime in cdimb ftMd cruise only. 7. Average speed is total range dii26. b2- flj ...i’~ GL a , T.0 .T. 0 .T g:gF-OT... (sin2 ~41 LOLT.O0. Sinc ili (iR/C)/VTO "A R/O G TD VT D T (~c Aseme rbtra-yvalu-a of R/O In ft./rsoa. Find D aT
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Roudsari, Robab Latifnejad; Khadivzadeh, Talat; Bahrami, Masoud
2013-01-01
Background: More than 30% of pregnancies in Iran are unintended and most of them happen among the women who use various contraceptive methods. Results of Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (IMES) showed that the rate of innovative contraceptive use in Mashhad has been 41.5%-57% in different urban areas. This study was conducted to explore the process of making decision toward using family planning methods in women of reproductive age in urban society of Mashhad, Iran. Materials and M...
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FLEXICMS - ODPRTOKODNI SISTEM UPRAVLJANJE Z VSEBINO
Pirnat, Miha
2012-01-01
V diplomski nalogi smo implementirali spletni sistem upravljanja vsebine, ki smo ga poimenovali FlexiCMS. Glavni cilj je bil zgraditi majhen in pregleden sistem, a z dovolj funkcionalnosti, da je primeren za realne spletne strani. FlexiCMS je implementiran v programskem jeziku PHP za spletne strežnike Apache. Za shranjevanje podatkov strani se uporablja podatkovna baza MySQL. Načrtovali smo ga kot minimalističen sistem in pri tem imeli v mislih najpogostejše funkcije spletnih strani. Vgr...
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United Nations Intervention for Humanitarian Relief in Bosnia- Herzegovina
1993-02-22
govinan Corps I i~leca) 5th Mixed A.dr Peql ath Motorized Ode 149ithIME-dium AA Arty Regt’ (SA-6) 13th Motor- zeC Mde 5th Light A-A Arty Regt `145th...34 1. Carl Von Clausewitz, On War, Translated and Edited by Michael Howard and Peter Paret, (Princeton: Princeton University Press), p. 579. 2...Michael Howard and Peter Paret, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Cohen, Leonard J. "The Disintegration of Yugoslavia", Current History
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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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González Alcaide, Gregorio
2008-09-01
Full Text Available This paper analyses the development of Spanish research literature in the field of citation analysis and impact factor (IF in biomedicine over the period 1981-2005. Bibliometric methods and social network analysis were used to examine papers indexed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI, MEDLINE, Índice Médico Español (IME and Índice de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (ISOC databases. 184 papers were identified, 79.89% of which were original research articles. Only four of these papers had been published before the 1990s. The mid 1990s saw a remarkable increase in the number of papers published (8-14 papers/year with the highest productivity being reached from 2002 onwards (14-25 papers/year. The IME and SCI-Expanded/SSCI databases were those recording the largest numbers of papers, both in absolute (67.93% and 40.76 respectively and singularity terms (42.39% and 21.74% respectively. The detected papers were published in 76 Biomedical and Documentation journals (82.06% and 15.22% respectively. The most productive authors were identified along with the main co-authorships and institutional collaboration networks operating in the field. These results are related to the importance of impact factor at both national and international level.
Se analiza el desarrollo de la literatura científica sobre análisis de citas y Factor de Impacto (FI en Biomedicina en España a lo largo del período 1981-2005, mediante la aplicación de metodologías bibliométricas y análisis de redes sociales a los trabajos indizados en las bases de datos Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCI-Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI, MEDLINE, Índice Médico Español (IME e Índice de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (ISOC. Se han recuperado 184 trabajos, el 79,89% artículos originales. Únicamente cuatro de ellos han sido publicados con anterioridad -
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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Upravitelj dobara Salonitanske crkve
Škegro, Ante
2002-01-01
Na izmaku antike Salonitanska nadbiskupija raspolagala je značajnim zemljišnim posjedima koji su bili pod kontrolom posebnog dužnosnika koji se nazivao prokuratorom (procurator Ecclesiae Salonitanae) . Prokuratori su na dalmatinskim prostorima u antičko doba u ime carske vlasti rukovodili vodećim gospodarskim granama poput eksploatacijom srebronosnog olova, željeza i dr. Na području Istre bili su na čelu carskih i drugih većih zemljišnih posjeda. Na izmaku antike na salonitanskom području pro...
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Pullback attractors for a singularly nonautonomous plate equation
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Vera Lucia Carbone
2011-06-01
Full Text Available We consider the family of singularly nonautonomous plate equations with structural damping $$ u_{tt} + a(t,xu_t - Delta u_t + (-Delta^2 u + lambda u = f(u, $$ in a bounded domain $Omega subset mathbb{R}^n$, with Navier boundary conditions. When the nonlinearity f is dissipative we show that this problem is globally well posed in $H^2_0(Omega imes L^2(Omega$ and has a family of pullback attractors which is upper-semicontinuous under small perturbations of the damping a.
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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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Seroepidemiololgy of rickettsioses in Sri Lanka: a patient based study
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Liyanapathirana Veranja
2011-11-01
Full Text Available Abstract Background Rickettsioses are emerging infections in Sri Lanka as shown by the increase in the number of clinically diagnosed rickettsial patients being reported to the Epidemiology Unit, Sri Lanka. However, mapping the disease for the whole island with laboratory confirmed cases has not been previously carried out. Methods 615 samples received from 23 hospital representing 8 provinces were tested using ELISA or IFA methods and clinical data was collected using a validated questionnaire. Results Rash was found among more spotted fever seropositive patients than scrub typhus seropositive patients while the opposite was true for the presence of eschar. Spotted fever and scrub typhus was found in a geographically restricted manner. Consistent temporal patterns were seen for the presentation of patients with rickettsioses in Kandy and Kurunegala districts for 2009 and 2010. Conclusions This study expanded knowledge on the distribution of rickettsioses in Sri Lanka and their clinical profiles which in turn helps in the clinical diagnosis of these infections.
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Hsu, WanChen; Chiang, ChiaHsun; Yang, ShuChing
2014-12-12
College students' health behavior is a topic that deserves attention. Individual factors and eHealth literacy may affect an individual's health behaviors. The integrative model of eHealth use (IMeHU) provides a parsimonious account of the connections among the digital divide, health care disparities, and the unequal distribution and use of communication technologies. However, few studies have explored the associations among individual factors, eHealth literacy, and health behaviors, and IMeHU has not been empirically investigated. This study examines the associations among individual factors, eHealth literacy, and health behaviors using IMeHU. The Health Behavior Scale is a 12-item instrument developed to measure college students' eating, exercise, and sleep behaviors. The eHealth Literacy Scale is a 12-item instrument designed to measure college students' functional, interactive, and critical eHealth literacy. A nationally representative sample of 525 valid college students in Taiwan was surveyed. A questionnaire was administered to collect background information about participants' health status, degree of health concern, major, and the frequency with which they engaged in health-related discussions. This study used Amos 6.0 to conduct a confirmatory factor analysis to identify the best measurement models for the eHealth Literacy Scale and the Health Behavior Scale. We then conducted a multiple regression analysis to examine the associations among individual factors, eHealth literacy, and health behaviors. Additionally, causal steps approach was used to explore indirect (mediating) effects and Sobel tests were used to test the significance of the mediating effects. The study found that perceptions of better health status (t520=2.14-6.12, PeHealth literacy and adoption of healthy eating, exercise, and sleep behaviors. Moreover, eHealth literacy played an intermediary role in the association between individual factors and health behaviors (Sobel test=2.09-2.72, Pe
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Everett, M. E.; Lee, S. M. C.; Stroud, L.; Scott, P.; Hagan, R. D.; Soller, B. R.
2009-01-01
In exercising muscles force production and muscular endurance are impaired by a decrease in intramuscular pH. The effects of aerobic training (AT) on preventing acidosis and prolonging exercise time in muscles not specifically targeted by the training are unknown. Purpose: To compare interstitial pH, measured non-invasively with near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), in the flexor digitorum profundus (FDP) during rhythmic handgrip exercise in sedentary subjects and those who participate in AT activities that target the lower body. Methods: Maximal isometric force (MIF) was measured on three separate days in AT (n=5) and sedentary (n=8) subjects using a handgrip dynamometer (HGD). Isometric muscular endurance (IME) was measured during five trials, each separated by at least 48 hrs. For each IME trial subjects rhythmically squeezed (4 sec at 40% of MVC) and relaxed (2 sec) to fatigue or failure to reach the target force in three consecutive contractions or four non-consecutive contractions. Interstitial pH was derived from spectra collected using a NIRS sensor adhered to the skin over the FDP. The first four IME trials served to familiarize subjects with the protocol; the fifth trial was used for analysis. NIRS-derived pH was averaged in 30 sec increments. Between group differences in MIF and exercise time were tested using paired t-tests. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to analyze effects of AT and exercise time on pH. Results: MIF was not different between groups (mean SD; aerobic=415.6 95.4 N vs. sedentary =505.1 107.4 N). Time to fatigue was greater in the AT than in the sedentary group (mean SD: 611 173 sec vs. 377 162 sec, p<0.05). pH was not different between groups at any time point. Average pH decreased (p<0.05) in both groups from rest (pH=7.4) through 90 sec of exercise (pH=6.9), but did not decrease further throughout the remainder of exercise. Conclusion: Although between group differences in pH were not detected, differences during the onset of exercise
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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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Van Driel, Mieke L.; McGuire, Treasure M.; Stark, Richard; Lazure, Patrice; Garcia, Tina; Sullivan, Lisa
2017-01-01
ABSTRACT The importance of interprofessional education (IPE) in continuing medical education and professional development has long been recognised by health organisations and academic societies, benefiting not only patient outcomes and interprofessional relationships but also overall health systems and workforce shortage. We report on the outcomes of an Australian IPE activity on medication-overuse headache (MOH) with general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists as learners. The design of the activity, which followed the predisposing–enabling–reinforcing instructional framework by Green and Kreuter, aimed to: (1) improve knowledge and foster a willingness in GPs and pharmacists to work collaboratively to enhance the prevention, diagnosis and management of MOH; and (2) address their educational gap by demonstrating the utility of a blended learning IPE strategy on MOH. Integrated into the activity was an assessment of its effectiveness and impact to instil change in the participants’ knowledge of MOH, attitude and willingness to treat, and clinical practice behaviours of GPs and pharmacists to work together. The learners gained knowledge and confidence in diagnosing and managing MOH and in their ability to educate patients. The IPE approach suited the activity and was valued by the participating GPs and pharmacists, who seldom experience such learning formats. However, for educational providers in Australia, developing and deploying an independent medical education (IME) programme can be challenging. Providers of IMEs need to be aware of the potential pitfalls when competing with pharmaceutical-company-sponsored and delivered programmes. PMID:29644141
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Freitas Alessandra
2003-01-01
Full Text Available Inborn metabolic errors (IME and cortical developmental malformations are uncommon etiologies of neonatal seizures, however they may represent treatable causes of refractory epilepsy and for this reason must be considered as possible etiological factors. This case report aims to demonstrate the importance of neuroimaging studies in one patient with neonatal seizures, even when there are clues pointing to a metabolic disorder. CASE REPORT: A previously healthy 14 day-old child started presenting reiterated focal motor seizures (FMS which evolved to status epilepticus. Exams showed high serum levels of ammonia and no other abnormalities. A metabolic investigation was conducted with normal results. During follow-up, the patient presented developmental delay and left side hemiparesia. Seizures remained controlled with anti-epileptic drugs for four months, followed by relapse with repetitive FMS on the left side. Temporary improvement was obtained with anti-epileptic drug adjustment. At the age of 6 months, during a new episode of status epilepticus, high ammonia levels were detected. Other metabolic exams remained normal. The child was referred to a video-electroencephalographic monitoring and continuous epileptiform discharges were recorded over the right parasagittal and midline regions, with predominance over the posterior quadrant. A new neuroimaging study was performed and displayed a malformation of cortical development. Our case illustrates that because newborns are prone to present metabolic disarrangement, an unbalance such as hyperammonemia may be a consequence of acute events and conduct to a misdiagnosis of IME.
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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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1994-03-25
declarations requiring more digits than SYSTEM.MAXDIGITS: C24113L..Y (14 tests) C35705L..Y (14 tests) C35706L..Y (14 tests) C35707L..Y (14 tests) 2-1...before the DACS Run-Time System (RMs) libary normally searches for na-4ime routin;, in this way one can replace the standard DACS RTS routines with...SHORTINTEGER is range -128 .. 127; type INTEGER is range -32_768 .. 32_767; type LONGINTEGER is range -2147_483_648 .. 2_147_483_647; type FLOAT is digits 6
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Revisión sistemática de los tumores cerebrales y los síntomas comunicativos
Pastor Tejedor, Sara
2015-01-01
Introducción: Esta revisión bibliográfica parte de diversas descripciones de casos de pacientes con tumores cerebrales, recogidas en 17 artículos. Objetivos: Se pretende revisar la literatura médica y psicológica sobre aspectos comunicativos relacionados con esta enfermedad y observar la relación de ésta con el tratamiento logopédico. Metodología: Revisión sistemática en las bases de datos Pubmed e IME que hagan referencia a la sintomatología con alteraciones comunicativas. Tras el anál...
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Application of reverse engineering in the production of individual dental abutments.
Yunusov, A. V.; Kashapov, R. N.; Kashapov, L. N.; Statsenko, E. O.
2017-09-01
The purpose of the research is to develop a method of manufacturing individual dental abutments for a variety of dental implants. System of industrial X-ray microtomography Phoenix V|tome|X S 240 has been applied for creation of highly accurate model of the dental abutment. Scanning of dental abutment and the optimization of model was produced. The program of milling the individual abutment with a standard conical neck of hexagon was produced for the five-axis milling machine imes - icore 450i from the materials titanium and zirconium oxide.
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Prevalencia del dolor lumbar durante la infancia y la adolescencia: Una revisión sistemática
Calvo-Muñoz, Inmaculada; Gómez-Conesa, Antonia; Sánchez-Meca, Julio
2012-01-01
Fundamentos: El dolor lumbar en niños y adolescentes es un problema de salud frecuente y su presencia aumenta el riesgo de sufrir dolor lumbar en la edad adulta. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir la prevalencia del dolor lumbar en niños y adolescentes y evaluar la calidad metodológica de los estudios. Metodos: Se efectuó una revisión sistemática de estudios epidemiológicos observacionales. Se realizaron búsquedas en las bases ISI Web of Knowledge, Medline, PEDro, IME, LILACS y CINAHL,...
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PREVALENCIA DEL DOLOR LUMBAR DURANTE LA INFANCIAY LA ADOLESCENCIA. UNA REVISIÓN SISTEMÁTICA
Inmaculada Calvo-Muñoz; Antonia Gómez-Conesa; Julio Sánchez-Meca
2012-01-01
Fundamentos: El dolor lumbar en niños y adolescentes es un problema de salud frecuente y su presencia aumenta el riesgo de sufrir dolor lumbar en la edad adulta. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir la prevalencia del dolor lumbar en niños y adolescentes y evaluar la calidad metodológica de los estudios. Metodos: Se efectuó una revisión sistemática de estudios epidemiológicos observacionales. Se realizaron búsquedas en las bases ISI Web of Knowledge, Medline, PEDro, IME, LILACS y CINAHL,...
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1983-06-01
with earth or an proposed by Joseph Louis Gay- Lussac object on it is then: (of gas- law fame) in 1823. He defined the protected volume to be a cylinder Fg...0 ED 30 A4S E a 70 so go IME ow TNM OW0 - ... 10618 11M. law ~ 10 0Ff lows rREOUMNCY INXI PREQUENMY ig) Figure 2 - LIGHTNING WAVE FORM The "initial...diverei- physical law which makes even mobile fied over the last 48 years. It negative (or positive) cloud charges includes in essence also the
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Abad Pérez, I; Colmenar Revuelta, J; Gascón Pérez, E; Colmenar Revuelta, C
1987-04-01
Situation of research done in childhood accidents an accidental poisoning in Spain must be known to plan future studies. Authors studied 131 publications obtained from IME (Indice Medico Español) data bank (1974-1984). Only 62 of them were epidemiological studies or reviews. Most of them were based on hospital data. Authors were mainly pediatricians who lived in big cities and had articles published in pediatric journals. They conclude that there are few studies on epidemiology of accidents in general populations and on how to prevent them.
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Rouen, Mathieu
2014-01-01
Air-stable Ru-indenylidene and Hoveyda-type complexes bearing new unsymmetrical unsaturated N-heterocyclic carbene (U2-NHC) ligands combining a mesityl unit and a flexible cycloalkyl moiety as N-substituents were synthesised. Structural features, chemical stabilities and catalytic profiles in olefin metathesis of this new library of cycloalkyl-based U2-NHC Ru complexes were studied and compared with their unsymmetrical saturated NHC-Ru homologues as well as a set of commercially available Ru-catalysts bearing either symmetrical SIMes or IMes NHC ligands. © 2014 the Partner Organisations.
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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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M. Sobrido Prieto
2005-06-01
Full Text Available Introducción. El incremento en la producción bibliográfica y la creciente necesidad de conocer la documentación existente hacen de las bases de datos una de las herramientas más útiles para la recuperación selectiva de la información bibliográfica.Objetivos. Analizar la presencia de revistas científicas de Enfermería españolas en bases de datos nacionales específicas, tales como Cuiden, Cuidatge, BDIE, Enfispo y la base de datos de Ciencias de la Salud IME, así como las bases de datos internacionales de CINAHL y Medline.Metodología. Para la elaboración de este trabajo se ha realizado un listado de todas las revistas indizadas en cada una de las bases de datos seleccionadas y analizado la presencia de cada una de ellas en las 7 bases mencionadas.Resultados. Se han localizado un total de 116 revistas coincidentes. El reparto de éstas en las bases de datos es el siguiente: (1 Entre las nacionales Cuiden es la que contiene un mayor número de revistas con un total del 102 seguida de Cuidatge con 56. Enfispo contiene 26, IME con 8 y BDIE 7. Entre las bases de datos internacionales CINAHL, tan sólo tiene 6 y Medline 3 revistas de enfermería. (2 En lo que respecta a las revistas presentes en las bases de datos, sólo el 61,5 % se encuentra presente en una base de datos. En ninguno de los casos hemos localizado ninguna revista presente en todas las bases de datos y tan sólo en 3 casos hemos localizado revistas presentes en 5 de las 7 bases de datos analizadas.Discusión y conclusiones. La escasa visibilidad de publicaciones de enfermería española es debido en parte a la pequeña presencia de éstas en bases de datos, por lo que en consecuencia acaban recibiendo un insuficiente reconocimiento por parte de la comunidad científica.Background. The fast growing of health bibliographic production and the increasing need of knowing the bibliography makes databases one of the most useful tool for the information selective retrieval
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Edgar Savisaar: see oli meie põlvkonna ime / Edgar Savisaar ; intervjueerinud Aarne Mäe
Savisaar, Edgar, 1950-
2009-01-01
Eesti taasiseseisvumisele olulist rolli mänginud tollane rahvarinde liider Edgar Savisaar annab hinnangu 20 aastat tagasi moodustatud Balti ketile, Vabadussõja mälestusmärgile Tallinnas, Eesti majanduse hetkeseisule
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Defense AT&L (Volume 36, Number 6, November-December 2007)
National Research Council Canada - National Science Library
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 ...
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
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
Indian Academy of Sciences (India)
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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Ramatowski, John W; Lee, Christopher Xiang; Mantzavino, Aikaterini; Ribas, João; Guerra, Winter; Preston, Nicholas D; Schernhammer, Eva; Madoff, Lawrence C; Lassmann, Britta
2017-12-01
A hackathon is best described as an 'innovation marathon'. Derived from the words 'hacking' and 'marathon', it brings together multidisciplinary teams to collaborate intensely over a short period of time to define a problem, devise a solution, and design a working prototype. International scientific meetings are conducive to successful hackathons, providing an audience of expert professionals who describe challenges and ensure the proposed solutions address end-user needs. Collaborations with local organizations and academic centers are crucial to attracting complementary specialties such as IT advisors, engineers, and entrepreneurs to develop sustainable projects. The core process of first identifying and deconstructing a problem followed by solution iteration is applicable to challenges at workplaces around the world. Ultimately, this model can be used to drive innovation and catalyze change in the global health community. The planning, execution, and outcomes of a hackathon event organized in conjunction with the International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2016) are described in this article. Physicians, public health practitioners, veterinarians, IT professionals, engineers, and entrepreneurs came together for 2days to develop solutions at the intersection of emerging infectious diseases and climate change. Projects that resulted from the IMED 2016 Hackathon included environmental impact assessment software for humanitarian organization relief efforts; enhanced communication tools to prevent disease outbreaks; a participatory mobile application to speed the elimination of rabies in Indonesia; integrated disease surveillance platforms; and an improved search function for infectious disease outbreak reports in the ProMED-mail network. Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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[Evaluation of formal elements of Spanish pediatrics journals].
Aleixandre-Benavent, R; González de Dios, J; Valderrama-Zurián, F J; Bolaños Pizarro, M; Valderrama-Zurián, J C
2007-03-01
Standardization of scientific journals is indispensable for accurate transmission of knowledge, since it guarantees the universality and reproducibility of research. The objective of this study was to evaluate the formal elements of Spanish pediatrics journals. In 2005, we studied the characteristics of Spanish biomedical journals with special emphasis on Spanish pediatrics journals. The form used for the selection of journals for inclusion in the database Indice Médico Español (IME) was employed to evaluate 65 distinct characteristics in each journal. The parameters were grouped in the following five categores: journal presentation, presentation of the articles, scientific and editorial committees, content characteristics, and dissemination parameters. The journals with the highest overall scores were Anales de Pediatría (63 points out of a maximum of 82), followed by Pediatría de Atención Primaria (53 points), Acta Pediátrica Española and Cirugía Pediátrica (55 points each), Pediatrika (53 points), and Revista Española de Pediatría (48 points). The score obtained by Anales de Pediatría places this journal in the top 10 Spanish journals included in IME. Spanish pediatrics journals meet most of the formal elements required of biomedical journals, although some aspects could be improved, such as deficiencies in the frequency and regularity of publication, mention of the dates of manuscript receipt and acceptance, the lack of a clear description of the editorial process of manuscript selection and peer review, the absence of committee members' institutional affiliations, and the absence of articles by non-Spanish authors.
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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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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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Kemija u nastavi: Etimološki pristup učenju kemije
Raos, Nenad; Raos (ur.), Nenad
2018-01-01
Etimološki pristup učenju kemije je u tome da ne objasnimo samo što ime ili termin znači nego i da ukažemo na njegovo izvorno značenje te objasnimo kako je našao svoj put do kemije. U članku se razmatra povijest anorganske kemije kroz povijest imenovanja kemijskih elemenata. Povijest pak organske kemije otkriva, upravo kroz imena spojeva, da se temeljila prije svega na izolaciji čistih tvari iz prirodnih materijala. Etimološki pristup učenju kemije olakšava usvajanje kemijske nomenklature i t...
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Revisión estructurada de las escalas de depresión en personas mayores
María José Cabañero-Martínez; Julio abrero-García; Miguel Richart-Martínez; Carmen Luz Muñoz-Mendoza; Abilio Reig-Ferrer
2007-01-01
El objetivo de este estudio teórico fue evaluar la adecuación conceptual, la aplicabilidad y las propiedades métricas de las medidas de depresión empleadas en la investigación con muestras de personas mayores españolas. Para ello se realizaron búsquedas electrónicas en las bases de datos nacionales IME e ISOC, y en las bases de datos internacionales MEDLINE, PsyInfo, CINAHL y Embase, así como búsquedas manuales en revistas reputadas del campo de la geriatría y la evaluación de ...
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Global representations of the Heat and Schrodinger equation with singular potential
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Jose A. Franco
2013-07-01
Full Text Available The n-dimensional Schrodinger equation with a singular potential $V_lambda(x=lambda |x|^{-2}$ is studied. Its solution space is studied as a global representation of $widetilde{SL(2,mathbb{R}}imes O(n$. A special subspace of solutions for which the action globalizes is constructed via nonstandard induction outside the semisimple category. The space of K-finite vectors is calculated, obtaining conditions for $lambda$ so that this space is non-empty. The direct sum of solution spaces over such admissible values of $lambda$ is studied as a representation of the (2n+1-dimensional Heisenberg group.
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Convergence of a continuous BGK model for initial boundary-value problems for conservation laws
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Driss Seghir
2001-11-01
Full Text Available We consider a scalar conservation law in the quarter plane. This equation is approximated in a continuous kinetic Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK model. The convergence of the model towards the unique entropy solution is established in the space of functions of bounded variation, using kinetic entropy inequalities, without special restriction on the flux nor on the equilibrium problem's data. As an application, we establish the hydrodynamic limit for a $2imes2$ relaxation system with general data. Also we construct a new family of convergent continuous BGK models with simple maxwellians different from the $chi$ models.
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Short outlines of books by Estonian authors / Janika Kronberg, Rutt Hinrikus
Kronberg, Janika, 1963-
2006-01-01
Arvustus: Runnel, Hando. Sinamu. Tartu : Ilmamaa, 2005 ; Talvet, Jüri. Tõrjumatu äär. Tartu : Ilmamaa, 2005 ; Nõu, Enn. Mõtusekuke viimne kogupauk. Tallinn : Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2005 ; Merca. Hele häärber. Tartu : Vilep & Vallik, 2005 ; Õnnepalu, Tõnu. Enne heinaaega ja hiljem : luulet ja luuletõlkeid 1983-2005. Tallinn : Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2005 ; Kaplinski, Jaan. Kõik on ime. Tartu : Ilmamaa, 2004 ; Unt, Mati. Vend Antigone, ema Oidipus. Tallinn : Kultuurileht, 2006 ; Laretei, Käbi. Otsekui tõlkes : teema variatsioonidega. Tallinn : Tänapäev, 2005 ; Jõerüüt, Jaak. Sõber : valik novelle 1979-2005. Tallinn : Tuum, 2005
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Športsko rekreativne aktivnosti pogodne za bolesnike s osteoporozom
ŠAKIĆ, Davorin; BADOVINAC, Olga; AMERL-ŠAKIĆ, Vjekoslava
2000-01-01
Tjelovježba i povećana tjelesna aktivnost neraskidivi su dio svakog preventivnog ili terapijskog postupka kod osteoporoze. Povećanje snage mišića uz opterećenje vlastitom težinom u uspravnom stavu važan su stimulator izgradnje kosti aksijalnog skeleta, čime se smanjuje rizik od frakture, a istodobno povećava potpora kralješnice i stoga su kolapsi kralješaka manje vjerojatni. Vježbom se povećava koordinacija pokreta i time smanjuje mogućnost pada, povećava sposobnost zaštite od posljedica pada...
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Application of the System Identification Technique to Goal-Directed Saccades.
1984-07-30
incorrectly derived result. (4) BAG - KST BAG / KSEand ’ BANT - KST BAN /"SE Substituting these values into the expressions for 8, P0 Pip P2 and P3...found in Appendix Al, yields 47 8 - 5.0938109 x 107 -.’ ’ o . - . -.. .... * . * . s - - * ** . - -. .. . . 63 P3 W 1.548 x 10 P = 3.4455 x 10 P2 P1...absolute value of displacement for subject 2.I Fig.S. he tme nteral romthe tar of he accae t th the ime t pak vlocty v abslut vale o • - " " "-’. di
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The existence and the stability of solutions for equilibrium problems with lower and upper bounds
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Congjun Zhang
2012-12-01
Full Text Available In this paper, we study a class of equilibrium problems with lower and upper bounds. We obtain some existence results of solutions for equilibrium problems with lower and upper bounds by employing some classical fixed-point theorems. We investigate the stability of the solution sets for the problems, and establish sufficient conditions for the upper semicontinuity, lower semicontinuity and continuity of the solution set mapping $S:Lambda_1imesLambda_2o2^{X}$ in a Hausdorff topological vector space, in the case where a set $K$ and a mapping $f$ are perturbed respectively by parameters $lambda$ and $mu.$
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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
Allas, Anu, 1977-
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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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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Geochronology and geochemistry of upper proterozoic granites from Southern Benin
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Cordani, U.G.; Kawashita, K.; Vancini, K.R.B.; Cadoppi, P.; Sacchi, R.
1993-01-01
The Upper Proterozoic basement of Benin, like that of nearby Nigeria and like the polycyclic basement of Central Hoggar, belongs to the hinterland of the Pharusian Chain (Pan-African Trans-Saharan Belt) generated by the collision between the (passive) margin of the West African craton and the (reactivated) margin of the Tuareg Shield and its southern extension. Rb-Sr dating of sub alkaline, meta-aluminums, syn-Kinematic granite forming tabular bodies near Dassa-Zoume and near Save yielded two WR isochron ages of 650 ± 35 Ma (I.R. = 0.7043) and 705 ± 70 Ma (I.R. = 0.7045). Emplacement of these bodies was clearly controlled by trans current movements along the Kandi Fault System. The analyzed granites are comparable with those of Central Hoggar and North-Central Nigeria on the ground of field, geochronological and geochemical data; they also display some affinities with the late-tectonic granites of the Adrar des Iforas. They are expected to find their Brazilian continuation in the Chaval Granitoids west of Fortaleza, but data for comparison are inadequate. (author)
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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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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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75 FR 18185 - National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)-Disability and...
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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PROTEINS OF POTATOES IN RELATION TO THE CONTENT OF CADMIUM IN THEIR TUBERS
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Judita Bystrická
2010-11-01
Full Text Available In the work the influence of cadmium in soil on the range of cumulating in tubers of potatoes and in proteins of potatoes grown under model conditions of pot trial experiment and under the real conditions of locality Imeľ in Danube Lowland was surveyed. Under conditions of pot trial the increased contents in tubers positively correlated with contents of cadmium applied into soil; the highest content of Cd was assessed in variety Junior (from 0.211 mg.kg-1 FM in 1st variant to 0.715 mg.kg-1 FM in 4th variant. The influence of increased content of Cd was manifested statistically significant in the content of proteins also in the content of Cd in protein fractions (1st var. 0.026 (Asterix – 0.045 (Agria mg.kg-1 FM; 2nd var. 0.047 (Livera – 0.085 (Asterix mg.kg-1 FM; 3rd var. 0.06 (Livera – 0.117 (Junior mg.kg-1 FM; 4th var. 0.068 (Livera – 0.142 (Asterix mg.kg-1 FM. Contents of Cd in potatoes from locality Imeľ did not exceed the value 0.1 mg.kg-1 FM defined in PK SR. The average contents of proteins were in range from 1.19 % (Victoria to 1.489 % (Adora, the average content of Cd cumulated in proteins was the highest in variety Vivaldi (1.317 μg.kg-1 FM. Positive correlation was confirmed between the content of Cd in potato tubers and in proteins only in Livera variety. doi:10.5219/74
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Hibino, Hiroshi; Takai, Madoka; Noguchi, Hidenori; Sawamura, Seishiro; Takahashi, Yasufumi; Sakai, Hideki; Shiku, Hitoshi
2017-07-01
In vivo, cells are immersed in an extracellular solution that contains a variety of bioactive substances including ions and water. Classical electrophysiological analyses of epithelial cells in the stomach and small intestine have revealed that within a distance of several hundred micrometers above their apical plasma membrane, lies an extracellular layer that shows ion concentration gradients undetectable in the bulk phase. This "unstirred layer", which contains stagnant solutes, may also exist between the bulk extracellular solution and membranes of other cells in an organism and may show different properties. On the other hand, an earlier study using a bacterial planar membrane indicated that H + released from a transporter migrates in the horizontal direction along the membrane surface much faster than it diffuses vertically toward the extracellular space. This result implies that between the membrane surface and unstirred layer, there is a "nanointerface" that has unique ionic dynamics. Advanced technologies have revealed that the nanointerface on artificial membranes possibly harbors a highly ordered assembly of water molecules. In general, hydrogen bonds are involved in formation of the ordered water structure and can mediate rapid transfer of H + between neighboring molecules. This description may match the phenomenon on the bacterial membrane. A recent study has suggested that water molecules in the nanointerface regulate the gating of K + channels. Here, the region comprising the unstirred layer and nanointerface is defined as the interphase between the plasma membrane and bulk extracellular solution (iMES). This article briefly describes the physicochemical properties of ions and water in the iMES and their physiological significance. We also describe the methodologies that are currently used or will be applicable to the interphase research.
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Enggraini, Irma Rizki; Tantoro, Swis
2017-01-01
Lifestyle is something that is beyond the personality. Lifestyle happens especially in the Faculty of Economics is of respondents noticed a significant change from other Faculties, starting from the change in the dress code that is used by students and staffs who work in that environment. The use of private vehicles ranging from motorcycles and cars that look more numerous than in other Faculties, the use of communication devices such as mobile phones (HP) more updates. With a style of life l...
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Neutron total cross section measurements of gold and tantalum at the nELBE photoneutron source
Hannaske, Roland; Beyer, Roland; Junghans, Arnd; Bemmerer, Daniel; Birgersson, Evert; Ferrari, Anna; Grosse, Eckart; Kempe, Mathias; Kögler, Toni; Marta, Michele; Massarczyk, Ralph; Matic, Andrija; Schramm, Georg; Schwengner, Ronald; Wagner, Andreas
2014-01-01
Neutron total cross sections of 197 Au and nat Ta have been measured at the nELBE photoneutron source in the energy range from 0.1 - 10 MeV with a statistical uncertainty of up to 2 % and a total systematic uncertainty of 1 %. This facility is optimized for the fast neutron energy range and combines an excellent t ime structure of the neutron pulses (electron bunch width 5 ps) with a short flight path of 7 m. Because of the low instantaneous neutron flux transmission measurements of neutron total cross sections are possible, that exhibit very different beam and back ground conditions than found at other neutron sources.
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The Boulder measurement of parity violation and an anapole moment in cesium
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Cho, D.; Wood, C.S.; Bennett, S.C.; Roberts, J.L.; Masterson, B.P.; Tanner, C.E.; Wieman, C.E.
1999-01-01
The amplitude of the parity-nonconserving transition between the 6S and 7S states of cesium was precisely measured with the use of a spin-polarized atomic beam. This measurement gives Im(E1 pnc )/β = - 1.5935(56) milli-volts per centimeter and provides an improved test of the standard model at low energy, including a value for the S parameter of -1.3(3) exp (11) theory . The nuclear spin-dependent contributions was 0.077(11) milli-volts per centimeter, this contribution is a manifestation of parity violation in atomic nuclei and is a measurement of the long-sought anapole moment. (authors)
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Franšizno poslovanje - stanje u Hrvatskoj
Erceg, Aleksandar; Čičić, Ivana
2013-01-01
Franšiza se javlja kada tvrtka (davatelj franšize) svoje trgovačko ime (brend) i svoj način (sistem poslovanja, know-how) daje na korištenje određenoj osobi ili grupi (primatelju franšize) koja se slaže da će poslovati u skladu s uvjetima ugovora o franšizi. Brojne su podjele i vrste franšize s kojima se susrećemo u istraživanjima i praksi. Razlozi korištenja franšiznog poslovanja najčešće se opisuju korištenjem dviju teorija: agencijskom teorijom i teorijom nedostatka potencijala (resursa). ...
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Avaliação da dor pós-operatória em dentes tratados endodonticamente
Ademar Luiz Waskievicz; Flávia Baldissarelli; José Roberto Vanni; Mateus Silveira Martins Hartmann; Volmir João Fornari
2015-01-01
O sucesso do tratamento endodôntico está diretamente relacionado ao domínio da anatomia e ao controle da infecção endodôntica. Alguns fatores, como erros de procedimento (sobre instrumentação, obturação, desvios apicais e perfurações) podem causar dor pós-operatória. Objetivo: Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar a dor pós-operatória em dentes que foram tratados endodonticamente na Unidade de Pós-Graduação em Odontologia da Faculdade Meridional – IMED CEOM, de Passo Fundo, no período de j...
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2017-06-16
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Obtainment of nuclear power plant dynamic parameters by adaptive mesh technique
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Carvalho Miranda, W. de.
1979-01-01
This thesis involves the problem in determination of the parameters of the Mathematical Model of a Nuclear Reactor, including non-linearity which is considered as a bi-linear system. Being a non-linear model, the determination of its parameters cannot be made with the classical techniques as in obtaining its experimental frequency response. In the present work, we examine the possibility of using a model with parameters that adapt according to a algorithm of Newton type minimization, showing that in the case of the single parameter determination, the method is successful. This work was done, using the CSMP (Continuous System Modelling Program) of IBM 1130 of IME. (author)
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La industria maquiladora y la migración interna en México
Hjorth Boisen, Susann Vallentin
2009-01-01
El objetivo de este atículo es analizar la relación entre el desarrollo de la Industria Maquiladora de Exportación (IME), la generación del flujo migratorio del sur de Veracruz hacia Ciudad Juárez iniciado en 1995, algunas de las características y dinámicas particulares de dicho flujo migratorio, y su relación con los mercados laborales locales. La metodología utilizada, fue un amplio trabajo de investigación de campo llevado a cabo en dos temporadas, en el año 2000 y entre los años 2002 y 20...
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Batley, J Richard; Lazzeroni, C; Munday, D J; Patel, M; Slater, M W; Wotton, S A; Arcidiacono, R; Bocquet, G; Ceccucci, A; Cundy, Donald C; Doble, N; Falaleev, V; Gatignon, L; Gonidec, A; Grafstrm, P; Kubischta, Werner; Mikulec, I; Norton, A; Panzer-Steindel, B; Rubin, P; Wahl, H; Goudzovski, E; Khristov, P Z; Kekelidze, V D; Litov, L; Madigozhin, D T; Molokanova, N A; Potrebenikov, Yu K; Stoynev, S; Zinchenko, A I; Monnier, E; Swallow, E; Winston, R; Sacco, R; Walker, A; Baldini, W; Dalpiaz, P; Frabetti, P L; Gianoli, A; Martini, M; Petrucci, F; Savrié, M; Scarpa, M; Bizzeti, A; Calvetti, M; Collazuol, G; Iacopini, E; Lenti, M; Veltri, M; Ruggiero, G; Behler, M; Eppard, K; Eppard, M; Hirstius, A; Kleinknecht, K; Koch, U; Marouelli, P; Masetti, L; Moosbrugger, U; Morales-Morales, C; Peters, A; Wanke, R; Winhart, A; Dabrowski, A; Fonseca-Martin, T; Velasco, M; Anzivino, Giuseppina; Cenci, P; Imbergamo, E; Lamanna, G; Lubrano, P; Michetti, A; Nappi, A; Pepé, M; Valdata, M; Petrucci, M C; Piccini, M; Cerri, C; Costantini, F; Fantechi, R; Fiorini, L; Giudici, S; Mannelli, I; Pierazzini, G M; Sozzi, M; Cheshkov, C; Chèze, J B; De Beer, M; Debu, P; Gouge, G; Marel, Gérard; Mazzucato, E; Peyaud, B; Vallage, B; Holder, M; Maier, A; Ziolkowski, M; Biino, C; Cartiglia, N; Clemencic, M; Goy-Lopez, S; Marchetto, F; Menichetti, E; Pastrone, N; Wislicki, W; Dibon, Heinz; Jeitler, Manfred; Markytan, Manfred; Neuhofer, G; Widhalm, L
2007-01-01
The weak radiative decay $Xi^0 -> \\Lambda e^+ e^- $ has been detected for the first time. We find 412 candidates in the signal region, with an estimated background of $15pm 5$ events. We determine the branching fraction ${cal{B}}(\\Xi^0 -> \\Lambda e^+ e^- ) = [7.6pm 0.4({m stat})pm 0.4({m syst})pm 0.2({m norm})] imes 10^{-6}$, consistent with an internal bremsstrahlung process, and the decay asymmetry parameter $\\alpha_{\\Xi \\Lambda ee} = -0.8pm 0.2$, consistent with that of $\\Xi^0 -> \\Lambda \\gamma$. The charge conjugate reaction $\\overline{\\Xi^{0}} -> \\overline{\\Lambda} e^+ e^- $ has also been observed.
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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...