Georreferenciamento e cartogrametria dos mapas da Capitania de Minas Gerais elaborados por José Joaquim da Rocha em 1778 e 1793 / Geocoding and cartometric maps in the province of Minas Gerais, drawn by José Joaquim da Rocha in 1778 and 1793

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José Flávio Morais Castro

2013-12-01

Full Text Available The accuracy of historical maps is being evaluated in research Historical Cartography through the use of geospatial technologies. This research aims to apply general techniques geocoding and cartometric maps in the province of Minas Gerais, drawn by José Joaquim da Rocha in 1778 and 1793, especially the overlay layer, the displacement vector and distortions of the grid over the map current.

Embriogénesis somática en papa cvs. Atlantic y Fritolay-1867

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M. C. Sánchez-Enciso

2005-01-01

Full Text Available El empleo del cultivo in vitro de células y tejidos vegetales para la obtención de embriones somáticos, se considera como un método eficiente para la propagación de un número de especies de importancia agronómica y hortícola, entre las que se encuentra la papa Solanum tuberosum L. El objetivo del presente estudio fue la obtención de células embriogénicas a partir de explantes de mesófilo de hoja de papa cultivares Fritolay-1867 y Atlantic. La formación de embriones somáticos de papa ‘Fritolay-1867’ se promovió cuando en el medio de cultivo se utilizó thidiazuron a una concentración de 1.0 mg·litro-1 como regulador del crecimiento, los cuales se cultivaron en medio que contenía sales de Murashige y Skoog complementados con vitaminas, carbohidratos y antioxidantes, incubándose inicialmente durante ocho semanas en oscuridad y posteriormente durante fotoperíodos de 16 h luz a una intensidad de 44 µmol·s-1·m-2 y a una temperatura de 26±1 °C durante 60 días. A las nueve semanas se obtuvieron los primeros inicios de germinación de los embriones con un 5 %, desarrollando en plantas completas

The “Non-Aligned Status” of French Emigrés and Refugees in Philadelphia, 1793-1798

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Allan Potofsky

2006-07-01

Full Text Available The key pieces of anti-émigré legislation, passed by the Convention on 28 March 1793 defined seven categories of émigrés but made little distinction between the intentions of nearly 150,000 French men and women that fled war, Terror, and political upheaval during the Revolution. All were deemed “traitors” and “unpatriotic” (impatriotes and faced the death penalty upon return to France as well as the confiscation of their property along with other penalties borne by their families. Added to t...

Max J. Friedländer (1867-1958) : Kunst en kennerschap, een leven gewijd aan de vroeg Nederlandse schilderkunst

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Laemers, S.A.M.

2017-01-01

Max J. Friedländer (1867-1958). Art and Connoisseurship, a Life dedicated to Early Netherlandish Painting, aims to elucidate the life and work of Max Friedländer on the basis of a number of themes, especially his connoisseurship and its meaning for the exploration of early Netherlandish painting.

Verheerlijken, kraken en verguizen: burgerlijke en antiburgerlijke fans rond het Amsterdamse standbeeld van Vondel tussen 1867 en 2010

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Jongsma, J.; Rock, J.

2014-01-01

This article examines the functions of the statue of early modern Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel, since its unveiling in 1867 (in the Amsterdam Vondelpark) until the present day. Building on studies of literary memory culture and fandom, we argue that the statue can be understood as a product

Popular political continuity in urban England, 1867-1918: the case studies of Bristol and Northampton

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Kidd, Matthew

2016-01-01

This thesis examines the transition between working-class radicalism and labour politics in two provincial English constituencies, Bristol and Northampton, between 1867 and 1918. By combining local case studies with a textual analysis of empirical material and a conceptual approach to ideology, it offers fresh insights into popular political change in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. \\ud \\ud Its central argument is that, contrary to the prevailing historiography on labour...

Ostreid herpesvirus OsHV-1 μVar in Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) of the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO world heritage site

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Gittenberger, A.; Voorbergen-Laarman, M.A.; Engelsma, M.Y.

2016-01-01

The Wadden Sea is an extensive wetland area, recognized as UNESCO world heritage site of international importance. Since the mid-1990s, the invasive Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) population in the area has grown exponentially, having a distinct impact on the ecosystem. The

Good Intentions!: Ten Great Books Which Introduce Readers To a Famous Writer.

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Van Deusen, Ann; Hepler, Susan

2000-01-01

Offers short descriptions of 10 books for children in which a famous writer appears as an essential character and a catalyst for the plot or content (while another character tells the story). Includes such famous writers as Benjamin Franklin, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare. (SR)

Manuel Tamayo y Baus’s Un Drama Nuevo (1867 and the Reception of Hamlet in 19th-Century Spain

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Rocío G. Sumillera

2013-05-01

Full Text Available The present article discusses how Tamayo y Baus appropriates and refashions in Un drama nuevo (1867 the figures of Shakespeare and Yorick, as well as different elements of a number of tragedies by Shakespeare (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, in order to render homage to Shakespearean drama by means of a play that, even if set at the beginning of 17th-century England, particularly addresses the tastes and concerns of 19th-century Spanish audiences. Additionally, this article considers the extent to which the contemporary audience of Tamayo y Baus was acquainted with Shakespeare and Hamlet, taking into account both the translations into Spanish of the play and its performances in Spain up until 1867. The purpose of such an analysis is to speculate on the reception and interpretation of Un drama nuevo at the time of its release, and on the role it had in raising or renewing interest in Hamlet within the Spanish-speaking world.

How fast is famous face recognition?

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Gladys eBarragan-Jason

2012-10-01

Full Text Available The rapid recognition of familiar faces is crucial for social interactions. However the actual speed with which recognition can be achieved remains largely unknown as most studies have been carried out without any speed constraints. Different paradigms have been used, leading to conflicting results, and although many authors suggest that face recognition is fast, the speed of face recognition has not been directly compared to fast visual tasks. In this study, we sought to overcome these limitations. Subjects performed three tasks, a familiarity categorization task (famous faces among unknown faces, a superordinate categorization task (human faces among animal ones and a gender categorization task. All tasks were performed under speed constraints. The results show that, despite the use of speed constraints, subjects were slow when they had to categorize famous faces: minimum reaction time was 467 ms, which is 180 ms more than during superordinate categorization and 160 ms more than in the gender condition. Our results are compatible with a hierarchy of face processing from the superordinate level to the familiarity level. The processes taking place between detection and recognition need to be investigated in detail.

La serie de vistas estereoscópicas de España de J. Andrieu y un paseo por el Madrid de 1867

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Hervás León, Miguel

2005-12-01

Full Text Available In this study an important and little-known series of 300 stereoscopic views by the French photographer Jean Andrieu is presented. These photos constitute a monumental and urban portrait of Isabelline Spain, and permit us to take a mini tour of Madrid in 1867. The author includes historical and technical explanations of stereoscopic photography.

Presentamos un estudio de esta importante y poco conocida serie de 300 vistas estereoscópicas del fotógrafo francés Jean Andrieu, que constituye un retrato monumental y urbano de la España isabelina y que nos permite realizar un pequeño recorrido por el Madrid de 1867. Se acompañan explicaciones históricas y técnicas básicas sobre fotografía estereoscópica.

Famous puzzles of great mathematicians

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Petković, Miodrag S

2009-01-01

This entertaining book presents a collection of 180 famous mathematical puzzles and intriguing elementary problems that great mathematicians have posed, discussed, and/or solved. The selected problems do not require advanced mathematics, making this book accessible to a variety of readers. Mathematical recreations offer a rich playground for both amateur and professional mathematicians. Believing that creative stimuli and aesthetic considerations are closely related, great mathematicians from ancient times to the present have always taken an interest in puzzles and diversions. The goal of this

First records of the American wasps Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1770 and Isodontia mexicana (de Saussure, 1867 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae from Bulgaria

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DENIS GRADINAROV

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Two alien sphecid species are reported for the first time for Bulgaria. Nearctic species Sceliphron caementarium (Drury, 1770 and Isodontia mexicana (de Saussure, 1867 were found in Sofia. The first species is collected as well from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, near Varna.

AMERICAN MANUFACTURING, AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY AND THE LABOR QUESTION AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE OF 1867

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Gregory Zieren

2004-01-01

Full Text Available The Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 was devoted to the theme, “The History of Labor,” and awarded special prizes to firms with paternalistic labor policies to promote harmony between workers and employers. The guiding spirit of the Exposition and its labor theme was the French social thinker, Frédéric Le Play. American technology was a second trend on view at the Exposition, and American firms, including the Pacific Mills of Lawrence,MA won gold medals and international recognition.

A description of the FAMOUS (version XDBUA climate model and control run

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A. Osprey

2008-12-01

Full Text Available FAMOUS is an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model of low resolution, capable of simulating approximately 120 years of model climate per wallclock day using current high performance computing facilities. It uses most of the same code as HadCM3, a widely used climate model of higher resolution and computational cost, and has been tuned to reproduce the same climate reasonably well. FAMOUS is useful for climate simulations where the computational cost makes the application of HadCM3 unfeasible, either because of the length of simulation or the size of the ensemble desired. We document a number of scientific and technical improvements to the original version of FAMOUS. These improvements include changes to the parameterisations of ozone and sea-ice which alleviate a significant cold bias from high northern latitudes and the upper troposphere, and the elimination of volume-averaged drifts in ocean tracers. A simple model of the marine carbon cycle has also been included. A particular goal of FAMOUS is to conduct millennial-scale paleoclimate simulations of Quaternary ice ages; to this end, a number of useful changes to the model infrastructure have been made.

Próspero y el teatro nacional: encuentros transatlánticos en las revistas teatrales de Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, 1867-1876

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Christopher Conway

2014-06-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo, se analiza la demanda de un proyecto nacional de dramaturgia mexicana a partir del quehacer crítico del escritor, periodista, maestro y político mexicano Ignacio Manuel Altamirano en las “revistas teatrales” publicadas en prensa entre 1867 y 1876.

[Application of qualitative interviews in inheritance research of famous old traditional Chinese medicine doctors: ideas and experience].

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Luo, Jing; Fu, Chang-geng; Xu, Hao

2015-04-01

The inheritance of famous old traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) doctors plays an essential role in the fields of TCM research. Qualitative interviews allow for subjectivity and individuality within clinical experience as well as academic ideas of doctors, making it a potential appropriate research method for inheritance of famous old TCM doctors. We summarized current situations of inheritance research on famous old TCM doctors, and then discussed the feasibility of applying qualitative interviews in inheritance of famous old TCM doctors. By combining our experience in research on inheritance of famous old TCM doctors, we gave some advice on study design, interview implementation, data transcription and analyses , and report writing, providing a reference for further relevant research.

Recognizing famous voices: influence of stimulus duration and different types of retrieval cues.

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Schweinberger, S R; Herholz, A; Sommer, W

1997-04-01

The current investigation measured the effects of increasing stimulus duration on listeners' ability to recognize famous voices. In addition, the investigation studied the influence of different types of cues on the naming of voices that could not be named before. Participants were presented with samples of famous and unfamiliar voices and were asked to decide whether or not the samples were spoken by a famous person. The duration of each sample increased in seven steps from 0.25 s up to a maximum of 2 s. Voice recognition improvements with stimulus duration were with a growth function. Gains were most rapid within the first second and less pronounced thereafter. When participants were unable to name a famous voice, they were cued with either a second voice sample, the occupation, or the initials of the celebrity. Initials were most effective in eliciting the name only when semantic information about the speaker had been accessed prior to cue presentation. Paralleling previous research on face naming, this may indicate that voice naming is contingent on previous activation of person-specific semantic information.

Determinants of famous name processing speed: age of acquisition versus semantic connectedness.

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Smith-Spark, James H; Moore, Viv; Valentine, Tim

2013-02-01

The age of acquisition (AoA) and the amount of biographical information known about celebrities have been independently shown to influence the processing of famous people. In this experiment, we investigated the facilitative contribution of both factors to famous name processing. Twenty-four mature adults participated in a familiarity judgement task, in which the names of famous people were grouped orthogonally by AoA and by the number of bits of biographical information known about them (number of facts known; NoFK). Age of acquisition was found to have a significant effect on both reaction time (RT) and accuracy of response, but NoFK did not. The RT data also revealed a significant AoA×NoFK interaction. The amount of information known about a celebrity played a facilitative role in the processing of late-acquired, but not early-acquired, celebrities. Once AoA is controlled, it would appear that the semantic system ceases to have a significant overall influence on the processing of famous people. The pre-eminence of AoA over semantic connectedness is considered in the light of current theories of AoA and how their influence might interact. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

New York, Weegee the Famous

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Chastagner, Claude

2008-01-01

« Weegee the famous » : le surnom dont s’est affublé Arthur H. Fellig évoque plus, dans sa vantardise ironique, le bonimenteur de cirque, le carnival barker, que le photographe de talent. Rien non plus dans son allure physique qui incite à l’inclure dans le cercle fermé des « vrais » artistes, des grands photographes américains célébrés par les magazines et les rétrospectives, comme Ansel Adams ou Walker Evans, même si lui aussi a eu les honneurs d’Hollywood, de Vogue et du MOMA. Avec ses com...

New York, Weegee the Famous

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Claude Chastagner

2008-08-01

Full Text Available « Weegee the famous » : le surnom dont s’est affublé Arthur H. Fellig évoque plus, dans sa vantardise ironique, le bonimenteur de cirque, le carnival barker, que le photographe de talent. Rien non plus dans son allure physique qui incite à l’inclure dans le cercle fermé des « vrais » artistes, des grands photographes américains célébrés par les magazines et les rétrospectives, comme Ansel Adams ou Walker Evans, même si lui aussi a eu les honneurs d’Hollywood, de Vogue et du MOMA. Avec ses com...

Living Classrooms: Learning Guide for Famous & Historic Trees.

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This guide provides information to create and care for a Famous and Historic Trees Living Classroom in which students learn American history and culture in the context of environmental change. The booklet contains 10 hands-on activities that emphasize observation, critical thinking, and teamwork. Worksheets and illustrations provide students with…

[The establishment of research inherit mode of famous academic thoughts].

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Zhou, Xue-ping; Wu, Mian-hua; Guo, Wei-feng

2011-12-01

To study and summarize the academic thoughts of famous Chinese medicine doctors is the main pathway of developing Chinese medicine theories. It is of important significance in enriching and developing the Chinese medicine theories by combining traditional and modern research methods, merging multiple disciples to study the research inherit mode of famous academic thoughts. The major study links include: (1) To refine scientific hypotheses from huge amount of clinical case records; (2) To find the literature sources; (3) To embody the practice significance of the innovative theories by clinical studies; (4) To reveal the scientific connotation of Chinese medicine theories by experimental studies. We hope to reach the goal of innovating and developing Chinese medicine theories on the basis of inheritance by integrating clinical case records, tracing the literature sources, clinical and experimental studies.

Modermælken og dens erstatninger 1867-1980, en fødevarebiografi

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Nyvang, Caroline; Kleberg Hansen, Anne Katrine

2017-01-01

This article investigates the ways in which knowledge about nutrition has been embedded in different types of homemade and commercial breast milk substitutes in Denmark from 1867, when the first commercial product was introduced, to 1980, at which point WHO issued a codex banning the advertisement...... of infant formula. Over this time span, we identify three main breast milk substitutes that were marketed and/or recommended to Danish caretakers: børnemel (children’s flour), homemade milk mixtures, and infant formula. The aim of the article is twofold: first, to explore the historicity of foodstuffs......, their contents and the kinds of knowledge that went into their composition; second, to find a baseline which, across time, allows for a macro nutrition comparison of infant formulas. We argue that the history of breast milk substitutes cannot be written independently from the history of breast milk itself...

John Goodsir FRS (1814-1867): Pioneer of cytology and microbiology.

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Gardner, Dugald

2017-05-01

John Goodsir, pioneer of the concept that all tissues are formed of cells, was born in 1814 into a family of medical practitioners in Anstruther, Fife, Scotland where he was captivated by the marine life he saw daily in his childhood. His ambition was to follow his father and grandfather in medicine. Aged 13, he studied at St Andrews University before being apprenticed to an Edinburgh dentist and completing an original analysis of the embryology of human dentition. He became the student of Robert Knox at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and then Conservator of the University Anatomy museum. He exchanged this position for one at the College of Surgeons before accepting the full University post. Beginning in 1830 with the compound microscope, he studied natural history and anatomy, describing his discoveries to many societies. Appointed to the Edinburgh Chair of Anatomy in 1846, his investigations of the cell as the unit of all tissues were recognised internationally. A critic of Darwin, he believed that Man could not evolve. However, malnutrition, the death of a brother and of a friend and collaborator, Edward Forbes, contributed to progressive illness and Goodsir died at Wardie, Edinburgh in 1867.

Liberalismo a prueba. La expulsión de «extranjeros perniciosos» en México durante la República Restaurada (1867-1876

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Chenillo Alazraki, Paola

2012-08-01

Full Text Available In Mexico, during the Restored Republic (1867-1876, even though Liberalism became a fundamental element of national politics, the defense of legal equality would remain subjected to the strengthening of the State, and the party in power. This article analyzes the expulsion of 17 foreign Jesuits decreed in 1873 by President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. A close monitoring of the aftermath and the debate it generated provides evidence of the role this faculty had as a political tool in said process.

En México, durante la República Restaurada (1867-1876, a pesar de que el liberalismo se afianzó como un elemento fundamental en la vida política nacional, la defensa de la igualdad jurídica quedó supeditada al fortalecimiento del Estado y del partido en el poder. En este artículo, se analiza la expulsión de 17 jesuitas de origen extranjero, decretada en 1873 por el presidente Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. El seguimiento detallado de los acontecimientos y del debate que generó pone en evidencia el papel de esta facultad como una herramienta política en dicho proceso.

Easter eggs, myths and jokes in famous physics books and papers

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Fortunato, Lorenzo

2017-01-01

I will report below on a few examples of raving and insane (or maybe utterly genial) sentences that can be found in famous and otherwise admirable books of physics, because I genuinely believe it is amusing.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928: viaje por Oriente y Egipto

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Lara Peinado, Federico

2005-04-01

Full Text Available Con este artículo se pretende rememorar los viajes efectuados a Turquía (1907 y años después al país del Nilo (1924 por el famoso novelista Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928. Sus impresiones, la historia de los países visitados, la descripción de sus ciudades y paisajes tomaron cuerpo en las obras tituladas Oriente y La vuelta al mundo de un novelista. Blasco Ibáñez supo resumir la historia de Constantinopla así como la de Egipto -especialmente su antigüedad- con sencillas palabras, sin tecnicismos, haciendo llegar al lector el impacto que le causaron monumentos y ambientes de la ciudad turca en un caso, y las pirámides, tumbas y el paisaje nilotico en otro, además de introducirlo en el alma de sus gentes.…

On Finding the Source of Human Energy: The Influence of Famous Quotations on Willpower.

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Alcoba, Jesús; López, Laura

2017-11-01

Positive psychology focuses on aspects that human beings can improve, thereby enhancing their growth and happiness. One of these aspects is willpower, a quality that has been demonstrated to have various benefits on people, as widely shown in the literature. As a result, a growing body of research is attempting to establish the conditions under which an individual's willpower can be increased. This work attempts to confirm whether the famous quotations that people often use to inspire or motivate themselves can have a real effect on willpower. Two experiments were conducted assigning randomly subjects to a group and priming them with famous quotations, and afterwards comparing their performance in a willpower task with a control group. The second experiment added a willpower depletion task before priming. As a result, primed subjects endured the willpower task significantly more time than control group, demonstrating that famous quotations related to willpower help to increase this capacity and to counteract the effect of willpower depletion.

Visual imagery of famous faces: effects of memory and attention revealed by fMRI.

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Ishai, Alumit; Haxby, James V; Ungerleider, Leslie G

2002-12-01

Complex pictorial information can be represented and retrieved from memory as mental visual images. Functional brain imaging studies have shown that visual perception and visual imagery share common neural substrates. The type of memory (short- or long-term) that mediates the generation of mental images, however, has not been addressed previously. The purpose of this study was to investigate the neural correlates underlying imagery generated from short- and long-term memory (STM and LTM). We used famous faces to localize the visual response during perception and to compare the responses during visual imagery generated from STM (subjects memorized specific pictures of celebrities before the imagery task) and imagery from LTM (subjects imagined famous faces without seeing specific pictures during the experimental session). We found that visual perception of famous faces activated the inferior occipital gyri, lateral fusiform gyri, the superior temporal sulcus, and the amygdala. Small subsets of these face-selective regions were activated during imagery. Additionally, visual imagery of famous faces activated a network of regions composed of bilateral calcarine, hippocampus, precuneus, intraparietal sulcus (IPS), and the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). In all these regions, imagery generated from STM evoked more activation than imagery from LTM. Regardless of memory type, focusing attention on features of the imagined faces (e.g., eyes, lips, or nose) resulted in increased activation in the right IPS and right IFG. Our results suggest differential effects of memory and attention during the generation and maintenance of mental images of faces.

New earthworm species of the genus Amynthas Kinberg, 1867 from Thailand (Clitellata: Megascolecidae

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Ueangfa Bantaowong

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Four new species of terrestrial earthworms from the zebrus-group in the genus Amynthas Kinberg, 1867, are described from Nan province, north Thailand: Amynthas phatubensis sp. n., from Tham Pha Tub Arboretum, Amynthas tontong sp. n., from Tontong Waterfall, Amynthas borealis sp. n., from Chaloemprakiat district, and Amynthas srinan sp. n., from Srinan National Park.After comparing with the two closely related Laos species Amynthas chandyi Hong, 2008 and Amynthas namphouinensis Hong, 2008, the four new species show clear morphological differences, and also it is confirmed that there are no previous records of the species described here. Amynthas phatubensis sp. n. is the largest (longest sized of these earthworms and is the only species that lives in limestone habitats. The genital characters are different among them and also from the two Laotian species. Molecular systematics would be a good method for further analysis of the diversity and species boundaries in SE Asian Amynthas.

A Reverse Tracking Method to Analyze the 1867 Keelung Tsunami Event

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Lee, C.; Wu, T.; Tsai, Y.; KO, L.; Chuang, M.

2013-12-01

The 1867 Keelung tsunami is the only tsunami event verified by Taiwan government. This event caused serious damage and hundreds death toll in northern Taiwan, including the Keelung city, Jinshan and Patoutzu areas (Fig. 1). This event is not only recorded in many literatures, but also unveiled by sedimentary evidence. In addition, this event also indicates that the three nuclear power plants nearby are prone to tsunami attacks (Fig. 1). The previous studies consider that this tsunami might be generated by a Mw 7.0 earthquake which might occur along the Shanchiao Fault (Zheng et al, 2011). However, there is no evidence showing the relationship between these geological activities and the tsunami event. In this study, we intend to find the potential tsunami source through numerical analysis. We conducted series of numerical experiments by using sets of fault parameters from Mw 7.0 to Mw 8.0. However, none of them was able to explain the 7 m tsunami height observed in history and the sedimentary evidence found on the Hoping Island. Considering the steep bathymetry and intense volcanic activity along the Keelung coast, one reasonable hypothesis is that the earthquake or volcanic eruption triggered a submarine landslide which increased the tsunami height dramatically. In order to confirm this scenario, we performed the Reverse Tracking Method (RTM), based on the linear hypothesis of tsunami wave propagation, to find the possible locations of the tsunami sources (Fig. 1). The Cornell Multi-grid Coupled Tsunami Model (COMCOT) was then used to perform the tsunami simulations. We followed the Mw 7.0 earthquake proposed by Lin et al. (2006) and added the landslide disturbance (Watts et al., 2005). The source-scaling relationship proposed by Yen and Ma (2011) was used to determine the fault parameters. In addition to the Shanchiao Fault, five submarine volcanos and three submarine canyons were considered as the potential tsunami sources. The result shows that the 1867 tsunami

Lack of semantic priming effects in famous person recognition in Mild Cognitive Impairment.

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Brambati, Simona M; Peters, Frédéric; Belleville, Sylvie; Joubert, Sven

2012-04-01

Growing evidence indicates that individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) manifest semantic deficits that are often more severe for items that are characterized by a unique semantic and lexical association, such as famous people and famous buildings, than common concepts, such as objects. However, it is still controversial whether the semantic deficits observed in MCI are determined by a degradation of semantic information or by a deficit in intentional access to semantic knowledge. Here we used a semantic priming task in order to assess the integrity of the semantic system without requiring explicit access to this system. This paradigm may provide new insights in clarifying the nature of the semantic deficits in MCI. We assessed the semantic and repetition priming effect in 13 individuals with MCI and 13 age-matched controls who engaged in a familiarity judgment task of famous names. In the semantic priming condition, the prime was the name of a member of the same occupation category as the target (Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt), while in the repetition priming condition the prime was the same name as the target (Charlie Chaplin-Charlie Chaplin). The results showed a defective priming effect in MCI in the semantic but not in the repetition priming condition. Specifically, when compared to controls, MCI patients did not show a facilitation effect in responding to the same occupation prime-target pairs, but they showed an equivalent facilitation effect when the target was the same name as the prime. The present results provide support to the hypothesis that the semantic impairments observed in MCI cannot be uniquely ascribed to a deficit in intentional access to semantic information. Instead, these findings point to the semantic nature of these deficits and, in particular, to a degraded representation of semantic information concerning famous people. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Srl. All rights reserved.

Is Queen Victoria Lecturing Today? Teaching Human Sexuality Using Famous Personalities.

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Parrot, Andrea

1987-01-01

Describes a technique for teaching human sexuality in the undergraduate classroom in which the teacher portrays a famous person presenting sexuality topics from his or her perspective. Describes the content of several of these "guest lecturers." Explains the benefits and potential problems of the method. (AEM)

Tsunami Source Identification on the 1867 Tsunami Event Based on the Impact Intensity

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Wu, T. R.

2014-12-01

The 1867 Keelung tsunami event has drawn significant attention from people in Taiwan. Not only because the location was very close to the 3 nuclear power plants which are only about 20km away from the Taipei city but also because of the ambiguous on the tsunami sources. This event is unique in terms of many aspects. First, it was documented on many literatures with many languages and with similar descriptions. Second, the tsunami deposit was discovered recently. Based on the literatures, earthquake, 7-meter tsunami height, volcanic smoke, and oceanic smoke were observed. Previous studies concluded that this tsunami was generated by an earthquake with a magnitude around Mw7.0 along the Shanchiao Fault. However, numerical results showed that even a Mw 8.0 earthquake was not able to generate a 7-meter tsunami. Considering the steep bathymetry and intense volcanic activities along the Keelung coast, one reasonable hypothesis is that different types of tsunami sources were existed, such as the submarine landslide or volcanic eruption. In order to confirm this scenario, last year we proposed the Tsunami Reverse Tracing Method (TRTM) to find the possible locations of the tsunami sources. This method helped us ruling out the impossible far-field tsunami sources. However, the near-field sources are still remain unclear. This year, we further developed a new method named 'Impact Intensity Analysis' (IIA). In the IIA method, the study area is divided into a sequence of tsunami sources, and the numerical simulations of each source is conducted by COMCOT (Cornell Multi-grid Coupled Tsunami Model) tsunami model. After that, the resulting wave height from each source to the study site is collected and plotted. This method successfully helped us to identify the impact factor from the near-field potential sources. The IIA result (Fig. 1) shows that the 1867 tsunami event was a multi-source event. A mild tsunami was trigged by a Mw7.0 earthquake, and then followed by the submarine

FAMOUS, faster: using parallel computing techniques to accelerate the FAMOUS/HadCM3 climate model with a focus on the radiative transfer algorithm

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P. Hanappe

2011-09-01

Full Text Available We have optimised the atmospheric radiation algorithm of the FAMOUS climate model on several hardware platforms. The optimisation involved translating the Fortran code to C and restructuring the algorithm around the computation of a single air column. Instead of the existing MPI-based domain decomposition, we used a task queue and a thread pool to schedule the computation of individual columns on the available processors. Finally, four air columns are packed together in a single data structure and computed simultaneously using Single Instruction Multiple Data operations.

The modified algorithm runs more than 50 times faster on the CELL's Synergistic Processing Element than on its main PowerPC processing element. On Intel-compatible processors, the new radiation code runs 4 times faster. On the tested graphics processor, using OpenCL, we find a speed-up of more than 2.5 times as compared to the original code on the main CPU. Because the radiation code takes more than 60 % of the total CPU time, FAMOUS executes more than twice as fast. Our version of the algorithm returns bit-wise identical results, which demonstrates the robustness of our approach. We estimate that this project required around two and a half man-years of work.

Applied investigation of Moessbauer effect for the famous ancient chinese porcelains

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Gao Zhengyao; Chen Songhua; Shen Zuocheng

1996-10-01

The famous Ru porcelain, Jun porcelain and Guan porcelain of Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty are analyzed. The Moessbauer parameters of the ancient porcelains and the imitative ancient porcelains are compared. The firing techniques, coloring mechanism and microstructures of the ancient Chinese porcelains have been discussed. (7 figs., 4 tabs.)

Ziştovi ve Yaş Antlaşması Arasında Tuna Kıyısında Bir Osmanlı Kenti: Silistre (1791–1793 The Danube Coast Between The Treaty Of Ziştovi And Yaş An Ottoman City: Silistra (1791 – 1793

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Hava SELÇUK

2013-07-01

Full Text Available Silistra Otoman Empire was an important port city on the banksthe Danube River. Therefore, especially in the river trade and battelswere important tasks. The Province of Silistra had a strategical importance by economical and military means. İt was also on the route of Ottoman-Russian and Otoman-Austria wars geographically. Silistra which is consulted both İbrail and rationing of İstanbul has an important function (cureal, hardtack, Weapons etc.. This study has been used as a source the book number 50 of Şeryiyye registries((1791-1793. Before and after the book number 50 in these treaties treaties from Silistra political, social, economic, and military issues contains information . Ser’iyye Sicilleri, that's court records, is an important source in revealing the political, judicial and social conditions of Ottoman society. Seri'yye Sicili Numbered 50 of Silistra, at Bulgarian archive “National Biblioteque”, forms the backbone of this paper. The record book in question includes 233 documents covering (apostasy, Austrian Prisoners such the economic and social events as heritage cases, family, appointment decisions of some officials, ship building, ambassy, tax (cereal, duhan, adat-ı ağnam. Bandit, the grain ship with move conversion topics are explored. The imperial orders (ferman and emir which all shed light on the military issues have been recorded in the ser'iye sicilleri. Based on the court records between 1791 and 1793 of Silistra, it will be mentioned about the social life of the town. Silistre Osmanlı Devleti’nin Tuna Nehri kıyısında bulunan önemlibir liman kenti idi. Bu nedenle özellikle nehir ticareti ve donanmasavaşlarında önemli görevler üslenmekte idi. Ekonomik ve askerî açıdanstratejik bir konuma sahip olan Silistre coğrafi açıdan da Osmanlı-Rusve Osmanlı-Avusturya savaşlarının ana güzergâhı üzerindeydi. Bunedenle Silistre gerek İbrail, gerek İstanbul’un iaşe ihtiyac

EFL Students' Perceptions of Social Issues in Famous Works of Art

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Bautista Urrego, Lizmendy Zuhey; Parra Toro, Ingrid Judith

2016-01-01

This article reports on a qualitative, descriptive, and interpretative research intervention case study of English as a foreign language students' construction of perceptions on social issues found in famous works of art. Participants in this study engaged in the practice of critical thinking as a strategy to appreciate art that expresses social…

Effects of gamma irradiation on different phases of coffee borer Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867)

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Wiendl, F.M.; Silva, A.L. da.

1974-10-01

Two experiments carried out in order to determine immediate lethal doses (LD sub(I)) for gamma irradiation of larvae, pupae and adults hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867) are presented. One experiment aimed only the determination of LD sub(I) for the adults of the coffee borer-outside the coffee-berries. The other to obtain the equivalent data for insects inside the coffee-berry, for all phases of the development cycle of the insect. It was found that LD sub(I) for larvae was around 350 Krad and for pupae around 400 Krad. For the adults, the LD sub(I) for insects outside the coffee-berry was 475 Krad and 525 for insects inside the coffee-berry. It was found that smaller doses caused a pronunced decrease in the insect lifetime, lifetime decrease proportionally as the irradiation dose increase. According to the results obtained, is postulated that this species of coffee-borer may be considered resistant to gamma radiation [pt

New earthworm species of the genus Amynthas Kinberg, 1867 from Thailand (Clitellata, Oligochaeta, Megascolecidae)

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Bantaowong, Ueangfa; Chanabun, Ratmanee; Tongkerd, Piyoros; Sutcharit, Chirasak; James, Samuel W.; Panha, Somsak

2011-01-01

Abstract Four new species of terrestrial earthworms from the zebrus-group in the genus Amynthas Kinberg, 1867, are described from Nan province, north Thailand: Amynthas phatubensis sp. n., from Tham Pha Tub Arboretum, Amynthas tontong sp. n., from Tontong Waterfall, Amynthas borealis sp. n., from Chaloemprakiat district, and Amynthas srinan sp. n., from Srinan National Park.After comparing with the two closely related Laos species Amynthas chandyi Hong, 2008 and Amynthas namphouinensis Hong, 2008, the four new species show clear morphological differences, and also it is confirmed that there are no previous records of the species described here. Amynthas phatubensis sp. n. is the largest (longest) sized of these earthworms and is the only species that lives in limestone habitats. The genital characters are different among them and also from the two Laotian species. Molecular systematics would be a good method for further analysis of the diversity and species boundaries in SE Asian Amynthas. PMID:21594106

The 1793 Eruption of San Martin Volcano (Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico)

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Espindola, J. M.; Zamora-Camacho, A.; Godinez, M. L.; Rodriguez-Elizarraras, S.

2007-12-01

San Martin Tuxtla Volcano is located in the State of Veracruz, Eastern Mexico (18.572N, 95.169W, 1650 masl). Its last eruption, which occurred 1793, was described by D. Jose Moziño, a naturalist sent by the Viceroy-of the then New Spain-to report on the eruption. The activity lasted for several months with distinct events of explosive character, which produced thick ash fall deposits in its vicinity. The explosions were heard, among other places, in the coasts of Tampico some 500km NW from the volcano. The ash fall reached distances up to 200 Km from the crater and covered an area of about 112,000 Km2. Following the description of Moziño and the results of field studies we make a reconstruction of the eruption. We identified the air fall deposit from this eruption and present an isopach map. We present radiocarbon ages of the paleosoils under the ash bed as an indirect evidence of its age. This data together with present day wind velocities, and a diffusion-advection model of the dispersion of ashes allow to estimate in at least 10km the altitude reached by some of the eruptive plumes. An estimation of the minimum volume of ash erupted, based on the reconstructed isopachs, is of about 1.3 x 108 m3. Microphotographs of the ashes suggest that the activity was of phreatomagmatic and strombolian nature. Finally, we address some aspects of the volcanic risk in the area derived from our study.

Sternal fracture: isolated lesion versus polytrauma from associated extrasternal injuries--analysis of 1,867 cases.

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Odell, David D; Peleg, Kobi; Givon, Adi; Radomislensky, Irina; Makey, Ian; Decamp, Malcolm M; Whyte, Richard; Gangadharan, Sidhu P; Berger, Robert L

2013-09-01

Sternal fractures fall into two distinct categories as follows: (1) isolated sternal fracture (ISF) without associated injury and (2) polytrauma sternal fracture (PSF) with associated extrasternal injury. PSF can be sufficiently severe to require hospitalization, while ISF is usually a mild insult manageable in an ambulatory setting. Nonetheless, most patients with ISF are hospitalized. The disconnect between treatment based on existing evidence and actual clinical practice may be caused in large part by the small patient cohorts in published studies conducive to inaccurate conclusions. This article addresses the issue by analyzing prospectively collected data on a far larger population than hitherto available. The Israeli National Trauma Registry (INTR) collects data prospectively on patients admitted to trauma centers in Israel. We analyzed the INTR database on sternal fractures for demographics, mechanisms and severity of injury, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and outcomes. Between 1997 and 2008, the INTR received data on 1,867 consecutive patients hospitalized with sternal fractures. The injury was sustained most often during motor vehicle accidents (84.1%), followed by falls (10.3%) and other blunt or penetrating mechanisms (5.6%). ISF was sustained in 26.4%, and PSF was sustained in 73.6%. Associated injuries involved most parts of the body. Cardiac contusions or lacerations were diagnosed in 1.8% of the 1,867 patients. ISF was associated with a lower incidence of cardiorespiratory compromise, more favorable trauma scores (Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS] score > 14, Revised Trauma Score > 11), and use of fewer intensive care facilities or operations compared with PSF. Endotracheal intubation, chest tube insertion, or thoracotomy was not performed in any ISF patient but was performed in 16.9% of the PSF cohort. The differences between ISF and PSF were statistically significant in all analyzed indices of injury severity. This study produced compelling evidence that

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: a famous patient.

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Hart, Curtis W

2014-08-01

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is arguably one of the greatest of American Presidents. His encounter with the polio that crippled him at an early age and its transformative impact upon him are here discussed with particular reference to his relationship with his physician, Dr. George Draper. This transformation liberated energy in Roosevelt to lead and to show empathy for others in ways that both challenged the political and social status quo in the U.S.A. as well as helped save the world from the threat of Fascism in World War II. This essay seeks to demonstrate how an investigation of the life and struggles of this famous patient is one avenue for relating the study of the humanities to medical education. An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Heberden Lecture in the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine in 2012.

The Messy Nature of Science: Famous Scientists Can Help Clear Up

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Sinclair, Alex; Strachan, Amy

2016-01-01

Having embraced the inclusion of evolution in the National Curriculum for primary science in England and briefly bemoaned the omission of any physics in key stage 1 (ages 5-7), it was time to focus on the biggest change, that of working scientifically. While the authors were aware of the non-statutory suggestions to study famous scientists such as…

Images of Famous People in Political Advertising: Youth Perceptions and Position

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Liubov I. Ryumshina

2013-01-01

Full Text Available The article touches upon the issues of youth awareness about the recent political events and its attitude to the political advertising, examines youth perception and position in respect of famous people, as well as candidates participation in political advertising on the example of the last presidential campaign. The study describes the most attractive elements of the political advertising for youth

The Doppler effect and the three most famous experiments for special relativity

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Klinaku, Shukri

Using the general formula for the Doppler effect at any arbitrary angle, the three famous experiments for special theory of relativity will be examined. Explanation of the experiments of Michelson, Kennedy-Thorndike and Ives-Stilwell will be given in a precise and elegant way without postulates, arbitrary assumptions or approximations.

What Makes Your Writing Style Unique? Significant Differences Between Two Famous Romanian Orators

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Dascalu, Mihai; Gifu, Daniela; Trausan-Matu, Stefan

2016-01-01

This paper introduces a novel, in-depth approach of analyzing the differences in writing style between two famous Romanian orators, based on automated textual complexity indices for Romanian language. The considered authors are: (a) Mihai Eminescu, Romania’s national poet and a

Los Levantamientos topográficos-parcelarios de la Junta General de Estadística en Cuenca, Huete y Valdeolivas (1867-1869)

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Vidal Domínguez, Mª Jesús; Camarero Bullón, Concepción

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Entre 1867 y 1869, en el marco del proyecto topográfico-catastral diseñado por Francisco Coello, la Junta General de Estadística lleva a cabo el levantamiento de cartografía urbana de nueve localidades no madrileñas, entre ellas tres conquenses: Cuenca, Huete y Valdeolivas, cuya cartografía se conserva en el archivo técnico del Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Se trata de un material de gran valor histórico y calidad técnica. El presente trabajo estudia el marco histórico en que se realiza el l...

Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century

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Junpeng Zhu

2015-06-01

Full Text Available The personality-descriptive adjectives used in a famous Chinese novel of the 18th century, A Dream of Red Mansions, which is thought to broadly reflect Chinese culture, might help depict personality structure. Four hundred ninety-three personality-descriptive adjectives from the first 80 chapters of the novel were administered to 732 Chinese university students. After factor analyses, the one- to seven-factor solutions were extracted, and the five-factor one was relatively clearer. The five factors of personality titled Wicked, Intelligent, Amiable, Conscientious, and Frank, were intercorrelated. Men scored higher on Wicked and Conscientious but lower on Amiable compared with women. As a preliminary trial, our study demonstrates that personality-descriptive adjectives in a famous Chinese novel characterize the personality structure.

Famous people and genetic disorders: from monarchs to geniuses--a portrait of their genetic illnesses.

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Ho, Nicola C; Park, Susan S; Maragh, Kevin D; Gutter, Emily M

2003-04-15

Famous people with genetic disorders have always been a subject of interest because such news feeds the curiosity the public has for celebrities. It gives further insight into their lives and provides a medical basis for any unexplained or idiosyncratic feature or behavior they exhibit. It draws admiration from society of those who excel in their specialized fields despite the impositions of their genetic illnesses and also elicits sympathy even in the most casual observer. Such news certainly catapults a rare genetic disorder into the realm of public awareness. We hereby present six famous figures: King George III, Toulouse-Lautrec, Queen Victoria, Nicolo Paganini, Abraham Lincoln, and Vincent van Gogh, all of whom made a huge indelible mark in either the history of politics or that of the arts. Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Art therapy using famous painting appreciation maintains fatigue levels during radiotherapy in cancer patients

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Koom, Woong Sub; Lee, Jeong Shin; Kim, Yong Bae; Choi, Mi Yeon; Park, Eun Jung; Kim, Ju Hye; Kim, Sun Hyun

2016-01-01

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of art therapy to control fatigue in cancer patients during course of radiotherapy and its impact on quality of life (QoL). Fifty cancer patients receiving radiotherapy received weekly art therapy sessions using famous painting appreciation. Fatigue and QoL were assessed using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) Scale and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) at baseline before starting radiotherapy, every week for 4 weeks during radiotherapy, and at the end of radiotherapy. Mean changes of scores over time were analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model. Of the 50 patients, 34 (68%) participated in 4 sessions of art therapy. Generalized linear mixed models testing for the effect of time on mean score changes showed no significant changes in scores from baseline for the BFI and FACIT-F. The mean BFI score and FACIT-F total score changed from 3.1 to 2.7 and from 110.7 to 109.2, respectively. Art therapy based on the appreciation of famous paintings led to increases in self-esteem by increasing self-realization and forming social relationships. Fatigue and QoL in cancer patients with art therapy do not deteriorate during a period of radiotherapy. Despite the single-arm small number of participants and pilot design, this study provides a strong initial demonstration that art therapy of appreciation for famous painting is worthy of further study for fatigue and QoL improvement. Further, it can play an important role in routine practice in cancer patients during radiotherapy

Art therapy using famous painting appreciation maintains fatigue levels during radiotherapy in cancer patients

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Koom, Woong Sub; Lee, Jeong Shin; Kim, Yong Bae [Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Choi, Mi Yeon; Park, Eun Jung; Kim, Ju Hye; Kim, Sun Hyun [Graduate School of Clinical Art Therapy, CHA University, Pocheon (Korea, Republic of)

2016-06-15

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of art therapy to control fatigue in cancer patients during course of radiotherapy and its impact on quality of life (QoL). Fifty cancer patients receiving radiotherapy received weekly art therapy sessions using famous painting appreciation. Fatigue and QoL were assessed using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) Scale and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) at baseline before starting radiotherapy, every week for 4 weeks during radiotherapy, and at the end of radiotherapy. Mean changes of scores over time were analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model. Of the 50 patients, 34 (68%) participated in 4 sessions of art therapy. Generalized linear mixed models testing for the effect of time on mean score changes showed no significant changes in scores from baseline for the BFI and FACIT-F. The mean BFI score and FACIT-F total score changed from 3.1 to 2.7 and from 110.7 to 109.2, respectively. Art therapy based on the appreciation of famous paintings led to increases in self-esteem by increasing self-realization and forming social relationships. Fatigue and QoL in cancer patients with art therapy do not deteriorate during a period of radiotherapy. Despite the single-arm small number of participants and pilot design, this study provides a strong initial demonstration that art therapy of appreciation for famous painting is worthy of further study for fatigue and QoL improvement. Further, it can play an important role in routine practice in cancer patients during radiotherapy.

The Doppler effect and the three most famous experiments for special relativity

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Shukri Klinaku

Full Text Available Using the general formula for the Doppler effect at any arbitrary angle, the three famous experiments for special theory of relativity will be examined. Explanation of the experiments of Michelson, Kennedy–Thorndike and Ives–Stilwell will be given in a precise and elegant way without postulates, arbitrary assumptions or approximations. Keywords: Doppler effect, Michelson experiment, Kennedy–Thorndike experiment, Ives–Stilwell experiment

PARAMETER POPULASI IKAN LOHAN (Cichlasoma trimaculatum, Günther 1867 DI WADUK SEMPOR, JAWA TENGAH

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Full Text Available Waduk Sempor di Kabupaten Kebumen, Jawa Tengah dengan luas 270 ha merupakan waduk serbaguna yang berfungsi untuk pembangkit listrik tenaga air (PLTA, pariwisata, irigasi dan perikanan. Aktivitas perikanan yang berkembang di waduk ini adalah perikanan tangkap meskipun saat ini mengalami penurunan sebagai akibat dari berkurangnya hasil tangkapan ikan ekonomis yang digantikan oleh jenis ikan asing invasif yang bernilai ekonomis rendah. Jenis ikan asing invasif yang mendominasi adalah ikan lohan (Cichlasoma trimaculatum, Günther, 1867. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengkaji beberapa parameter populasi yakni hubungan panjang berat, parameter pertumbuhan, mortalitas dan laju eksploitasi ikan lohan di Waduk Sempor. Pengambilan sampel ikan lohan dilakukan menggunakan alat tangkap jaring insang berbagai ukuran mata jaring selama periode Maret sampai Desember 2012. Sebanyak 1.962 ekor sampel ikan lohan yang tertangkap dianalisis untuk menghitung parameter populasinya. Estimasi parameter pertumbuhan, mortalitas dan laju eksploitasi dihitung menggunakan paket program FiSAT II. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pola pertumbuhan ikan lohan bersifat isometrik dengan estimasi parameter pertumbuhan sebagai berikut: L∞ = 20,5 cmTL, K = 0,37 tahun-1, to = -0,4955 tahun dan tmax = 8,11 tahun. Laju mortalitas total (Z sebesar 1,29 tahun-1, mortalitas alami (M sebesar 1,05 tahun-1, mortalitas penangkapan (F sebesar 0,24 tahun-1 dengan laju eksploitasi (E sebesar 0,18 yang menunjukkan laju eksploitasi yang rendah. Sempor reservoir at Kebumen Regency, Central Java with a waters surface area of 270 ha is a multi-purpose reservoir for hydroelectric power generation, tourism, irrigation and fisheries. Currently, capture fisheries activity developed in the reservoir tend to decrease as a result of decreasing economical fish yield which was replaced by invasive alien species of low economic value. The dominant invasive alien species catches was three spot cichlid

The mitochondrial genome of the German wasp Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae).

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Zhou, Yuan; Hu, Yu-Lin; Xu, Zai-Fu; Wei, Shu-Jun

2016-07-01

The mitochondrial genome of the German wasp Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) (GenBank accession no. KR703583) was sequenced in the study. It represents the first mitochondrial genome from the genus Vespula. There are totally 163 42 bp in the currently sequenced portion of the genome, containing 13 protein-coding, two rRNA, and 18 tRNA genes and a partial A + T-rich region. Four tRNA genes of trnI, trnQ, trnM and trnY located at the downstream of the A + T-rich region were failed to sequence. At least two rearrangement events occurred in the sequenced region compared with the pupative ancestral arrangement of insects, corresponding to the translocation or remote inversion of tnnY from trnW-trnC-trnY cluster to the region of trnI-trnQ-trnM cluster and translocation of trnL1 from the downstream to the upstream of nad1 gene. All protein-coding genes start with ATN codons. Twelve and one protein-coding genes stop with termination codon TAA and T, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis using the Bayesian method based on all codon positions of the 13 protein-coding genes supports the monophyly of Vespidae and Formicidae. Within the Formicidae, the Myrmicinae and Formicinae form a sister group and then sister to the Dolichoderinae, while within the Vespidae, the Eumeninae sister to the lineage of Vespinae + Polistinae.

Art therapy using famous painting appreciation maintains fatigue levels during radiotherapy in cancer patients

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Koom, Woong Sub; Choi, Mi Yeon; Lee, Jeongshim; Park, Eun Jung; Kim, Ju Hye; Kim, Sun-Hyun; Kim, Yong Bae

2016-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of art therapy to control fatigue in cancer patients during course of radiotherapy and its impact on quality of life (QoL). Materials and Methods: Fifty cancer patients receiving radiotherapy received weekly art therapy sessions using famous painting appreciation. Fatigue and QoL were assessed using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI) Scale and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) at baseline before starting radiotherapy, every week for 4 weeks during radiotherapy, and at the end of radiotherapy. Mean changes of scores over time were analyzed using a generalized linear mixed model. Results: Of the 50 patients, 34 (68%) participated in 4 sessions of art therapy. Generalized linear mixed models testing for the effect of time on mean score changes showed no significant changes in scores from baseline for the BFI and FACIT-F. The mean BFI score and FACIT-F total score changed from 3.1 to 2.7 and from 110.7 to 109.2, respectively. Art therapy based on the appreciation of famous paintings led to increases in self-esteem by increasing self-realization and forming social relationships. Conclusion: Fatigue and QoL in cancer patients with art therapy do not deteriorate during a period of radiotherapy. Despite the single-arm small number of participants and pilot design, this study provides a strong initial demonstration that art therapy of appreciation for famous painting is worthy of further study for fatigue and QoL improvement. Further, it can play an important role in routine practice in cancer patients during radiotherapy. PMID:27306778

Bioatividade da azadiractina e de inseticidas sintéticos sobre a broca-do-café, Hypothenemus hampei (FERRARI, 1867) (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE), em laboratório

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Tatiane Lobak

2016-01-01

A broca-do-café, Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), é praga limitante à produtividade e a qualidade dos grãos. Com a proibição do uso do endossulfam, para seu controle, em 2013, novas alternativas devem ser pesquisadas, visto que atualmente tem se seis princípios ativos registrados no Brasil, incluindo a azadiractina. Assim, o objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a bioatividade da azadiractina e de inseticidas sintéticos sobre a broca-do-café, em condições de labo...

Paul Wittgenstein's right arm and his phantom: the saga of a famous concert pianist and his amputation.

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Boller, François; Bogousslavsky, Julien

2015-01-01

Reports of postamputation pain and problems linked to phantom limbs have increased in recent years, particularly in relation to war-related amputations. These problems are still poorly understood and are considered rather mysterious, and they are difficult to treat. In addition, they may shed light on brain physiology and neuropsychology. Functional neuroimaging techniques now enable us to better understand their pathophysiology and to consider new rehabilitation techniques. Several artists have suffered from postamputation complications and this has influenced not only their personal life but also their artistic work. Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961), a pianist whose right arm was amputated during the First World War, became a famous left-handed concert performer. His case provides insight into Post-World War I musical and political history. More specifically, the impact on the artistic life of this pianist illustrates various postamputation complications, such as phantom limb, stump pain, and especially moving phantom. The phantom movements of his right hand helped him develop the dexterity of his left hand. Wittgenstein played piano works that were written especially for him (the most famous being Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand) and composed some of his own. Additionally, several famous composers had previously written for the left hand. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Is mind-mindedness trait-like or a quality of close relationships? Evidence from descriptions of significant others, famous people, and works of art.

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Meins, Elizabeth; Fernyhough, Charles; Harris-Waller, Jayne

2014-03-01

The four studies reported here sought to explore the nature of the construct of mind-mindedness. In Study 1, involving 37 mothers of 5- to 8-year-old children, mothers' verbal mind-minded descriptions of their children were positively correlated with their mind-minded descriptions of their current romantic partner. Participants in Studies 2 (N=114), 3 (N=173), and 4 (N=153) were young adults who provided written descriptions of: a close friend and their current romantic partner (Study 2); two specified famous people, two works of art, and a close friend (Study 3); a specified famous person, a famous person of the participant's choice, and a close friend (Study 4). Study 2 obtained paper-and-pen written descriptions, whereas participants completed descriptions in electronic format in Studies 3 and 4. Mind-minded descriptions of friends and partners were positively correlated, but there was no relation between mind-minded descriptions of a friend and the tendency to describe famous people or works of art in mind-minded terms. Levels of mind-mindedness were higher in descriptions of friends compared with descriptions of famous people or works of art. Administration format was unrelated to individuals' mind-mindedness scores. The results suggest that mind-mindedness is a facet of personal relationships rather than a trait-like quality. Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Dominant culturable bacterial microbiota in the digestive tract of the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus Bechstein 1793 and search for antagonistic substances Microbiota bacteriana dominante cultivável no trato digestivo do urubu (Coragyps atratus Bechstein 1793

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Lydston Rodrigues de Carvalho

2003-07-01

Full Text Available Strict and facultative culturable anaerobic bacteria from the digestive tract of six American black vultures (Coragyps atratus Bechstein 1793 were isolated and identified. After capture, the birds received a non-contaminated diet for one week to eliminate possible allochthonous microorganisms. Then, specimens collected from tongue, stomach and intestines were weighed, submitted to decimal dilution in an anaerobic chamber, inoculated into culture media and incubated aerobically and anaerobically at 37ºC for enumeration, isolation and identification. Isolated bacteria were submitted to tests to detect possible antagonisms between them. The total bacterial population along the digestive tract ranged from 3.46 ± 0.39 log CFU/g in the stomach to 10.75 ± 0.37 log CFU/g in the distal intestine. Some bacteria were isolated for the first time from the digestive tract of C. atratus: Actinomyces bovis, Lactobacillus cellobiosus, Micrococcus luteus, Neisseria sicca, Clostridium bifermentans, Enterobacter agglomerans, Peptostreptococcus sp., Sarcina sp., Serratia odorifera, and Shigella flexneri. Associations between microorganisms were observed during isolation on two occasions, one involving A. bovis and N. sicca, and the other involving A. bovis and a Gram-negative rod. Hetero-, iso- and autoantagonisms were observed, suggesting the ecological role of these indigenous microorganisms in terms of population auto-control and environmental barrier in the digestive tract of carrion-feeding birds.As bactérias anaeróbias estritas e facultativas cultiváveis do trato digestivo de seis urubus (Coragyps atratus Bechstein 1793 foram isoladas e identificadas. Após a captura, as aves receberam uma alimentação de baixa contaminação durante uma semana para eliminar possíveis microorganismos alóctonos. A seguir, amostras colhidas na língua, estomago e intestinos foram pesadas, submetidas a diluições decimais numa câmara anaeróbia, inoculadas em meios de

ТРОПИ У ВІРШОВАНИХ ТВОРАХ С. ВОРОБКЕВИЧА ДРУГОГО ПЕРІОДУ ТВОРЧОСТІ (1867-1875 / TROPES IN THE POETIC WRITINGS OF S. VOROBKEVYCH IN THE SECOND PERIOD OF HIS CREATIVITY (1867-1875

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Full Text Available Никифорук Taтьяна. Тропы в стихах С. Воробкевича второго периода творчества (1867-1875. В статье проанализировано поэтическое наследие С. Воробкевича второго периода творчества (1867-1875 в срезе тропов. Зафиксировано частейшее использование сравнений (ЧК – 0.04, метафоры (ЧК – 0.04, эпитеты (ЧК – 0.05, метонимии (ЧК – 0.003, синекдохи (ЧК – 0.003, гиперболы (ЧК – 0.006. Фиксируем также примеры оксюморона, аллегории, символов, мейозиса, иронии, эвфемизмов. По сравнению с предыдущим периодом творчества количественные изменения в аспекте использования тропов незначительны. Небольшой процент частичности компенсирует их разнообразие. Ключевые слова: троп, частотный коэффициент, сравнения, метафоры, эпитеты, метонимии, синекдохи, гиперболы, оксюморон, символы. Nykyforuk Tetyana. Tropes in the poetic writings of S.Vorobkevych in the second period of his creativity (1867-1875. The article analyzes the tropes in the poetic heritage of S. Vorob- kevych in the second period of his creativity (1867-1875. Poetic writings of S. Vorobkevych are chronologically divided into 3 periods: Early creativity (1863-1867. Second period (1867-1875. Third period (1875-1903. On all the levels analyzed, Vorobkevych’s early works demonstrate their high artistic quality. The study of the poetry of (1863-1867 brought out clearly that, the poet’s creativity demonstrates a remarkable

Is 27 really a dangerous age for famous musicians? Retrospective cohort study.

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Wolkewitz, Martin; Allignol, Arthur; Graves, Nicholas; Barnett, Adrian G

2011-12-20

To test the "27 club" hypothesis that famous musicians are at an increased risk of death at age 27. Design Cohort study using survival analysis with age as a time dependent exposure. Comparison was primarily made within musicians, and secondarily relative to the general UK population. The popular music scene from a UK perspective. Musicians (solo artists and band members) who had a number one album in the UK between 1956 and 2007 (n = 1046 musicians, with 71 deaths, 7%). Risk of death by age of musician, accounting for time dependent study entry and the number of musicians at risk. Risk was estimated using a flexible spline which would allow a bump at age 27 to appear. We identified three deaths at age 27 amongst 522 musicians at risk, giving a rate of 0.57 deaths per 100 musician years. Similar death rates were observed at ages 25 (rate = 0.56) and 32 (0.54). There was no peak in risk around age 27, but the risk of death for famous musicians throughout their 20s and 30s was two to three times higher than the general UK population. The 27 club is unlikely to be a real phenomenon. Fame may increase the risk of death among musicians, but this risk is not limited to age 27.

Marie Curie; Marie Curie

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Trotereau, J.

2011-07-01

The legend has only retained from Marie Curie (1867-1934) the image of a hard and brilliant worker, pioneer in the radioactivity domain, and who awarded twice the Nobel Price. Behind the scientist, there is a women, Marya Salomea Sklodowska, the 'Polish', who was considered during some time as an 'alien', an 'atheistic intellectual', an 'emancipated women'. When she died alone in July 1934, after an exhausting life of labour, her funeral led to no official ceremony or speech. This small book summarizes the biography of the most famous female scientist in the world

How El Negrito Saved Mexico from the French: During the French Intervention, 1861-1867

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William H. Beezley

2007-10-01

Full Text Available Emperor Maximilian became the target of satirical humor,  espe­cially in the form of itinerant puppet theater.  One of the most critical plays was “The Pastry War,” in which the famous puppet, El Negrito, representing the Mexican people defeated the French. This play offers an opportunity for a thick description in the Geertz manner of the play as a window on popular attitudes that resulted  in the formation of national identity. The play and the puppet demonstrate one of the popular sources that helped shaped the attitudes about the nation and its people.

Benefits of lethal pandemics: direct impact of contagious diseases on public administration in Hungary (1867-1914).

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Palvolgyi, Balazs

2013-01-01

The reconciliation of 1867 between Austria and Hungary brought great changes to Hungarian public administration: the way towards the building up of a modern public administration had been opened. Although there was a functioning public health system and a related legislation from the late 18th century, major issues - such as balanced geographical distribution of medical personnel, fair access to medical services even in the poorer regions of the country, and the effective protection against some contagious diseases - were not resolved for decades. During the reform work of public administration since the 1870s, the lawmakers touched repeatedly the framework and functioning of the public health as well. Although the general conditions of the domain depended traditionally on the municipalities and counties due to the national importance of the matter, the government made efforts to make the functioning of the public health more efficient through centralisation. The contagious diseases continuously endangered the population, revealing the weak points in the existing public health system, thereby giving a momentum to the reforms and helping the government in its organization of prevention and clearly contributing to the legislation work.

Experience inheritance from famous specialists based on real-world clinical research paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine.

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Song, Guanli; Wang, Yinghui; Zhang, Runshun; Liu, Baoyan; Zhou, Xuezhong; Zhou, Xiaji; Zhang, Hong; Guo, Yufeng; Xue, Yanxing; Xu, Lili

2014-09-01

The current modes of experience inheritance from famous specialists in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) include master and disciple, literature review, clinical-epidemiology-based clinical research observation, and analysis and data mining via computer and database technologies. Each mode has its advantages and disadvantages. However, a scientific and instructive experience inheritance mode has not been developed. The advent of the big data era as well as the formation and practice accumulation of the TCM clinical research paradigm in the real world have provided new perspectives, techniques, and methods for inheriting experience from famous TCM specialists. Through continuous exploration and practice, the research group proposes the innovation research mode based on the real-world TCM clinical research paradigm, which involves the inheritance and innovation of the existing modes. This mode is formulated in line with its own development regularity of TCM and is expected to become the main mode of experience inheritance in the clinical field.

Imposex and butyltin body burden in Nassarius nitidus (Jeffreys, 1867), in coastal waters within the Basque Country (northern Spain)

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2009-07-01

Levels of imposex (superimposition of male characters, upon females) and the presence of sterile females are assessed in the gastropod Nassarius nitidus (Jeffreys, 1867), at 22 locations in the Basque Country (northern Spain). At 18 of these localities, butyltin bioaccumulation (tributyltin (TBT); dibutyltin; monobutyltin) was analysed using isotope dilution and GC-ICP-MS. Higher imposex levels and TBT body burden were found in confined harbours, with a large vessel traffic or the presence of a fishing fleet or a shipyard. For the first time, four apparently sequential types of aborted capsules are described in this species. Another novelty is the interspecific comparison between imposex intensities in sympatrically living populations of N. nitidus and N. reticulatus. This showed that sensitivity to TBT pollution of both species is relatively similar (in terms of Relative Penis Length Index). Since N. nitidus has a restricted habitat distribution due to its low presence in wave-exposed habitats, its complementary use with other species is recommended for its use in TBT monitoring programmes.

Imposex and butyltin body burden in Nassarius nitidus (Jeffreys, 1867), in coastal waters within the Basque Country (northern Spain)

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Rodriguez, J. German; Borja, Angel; Franco, Javier; Garcia Alonso, J. Ignacio; Garmendia, Joxe Mikel; Muxika, Inigo; Sariego, Cristina; Valencia, Victoriano

2009-01-01

Levels of imposex (superimposition of male characters, upon females) and the presence of sterile females are assessed in the gastropod Nassarius nitidus (Jeffreys, 1867), at 22 locations in the Basque Country (northern Spain). At 18 of these localities, butyltin bioaccumulation (tributyltin (TBT); dibutyltin; monobutyltin) was analysed using isotope dilution and GC-ICP-MS. Higher imposex levels and TBT body burden were found in confined harbours, with a large vessel traffic or the presence of a fishing fleet or a shipyard. For the first time, four apparently sequential types of aborted capsules are described in this species. Another novelty is the interspecific comparison between imposex intensities in sympatrically living populations of N. nitidus and N. reticulatus. This showed that sensitivity to TBT pollution of both species is relatively similar (in terms of Relative Penis Length Index). Since N. nitidus has a restricted habitat distribution due to its low presence in wave-exposed habitats, its complementary use with other species is recommended for its use in TBT monitoring programmes.

Re-description of Xysticus bimaculatus L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae, Thomisidae and characterization of its subsocial lifestyle

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Jasmin Ruch

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Spiders have become an important model to study the evolution of sociality, but a lack of their detailed natural history and taxonomy hinders broader comparative studies. Group-living crab spiders (Thomisidae provide an excellent contrast to other social spiders since they lack a communal capture web, which was thought to be a critical factor in the evolution of sociality. Only three non-webbuilding crab-spider species are known to be subsocial or social, all of which belong to the genus Diaea Thorell, 1869. The aim of this study is to describe the social lifestyle of Xysticus bimaculatus L. Koch, 1867 for the first time. Furthermore, we present a detailed re-description of this species and discuss its taxonomic implications. Like other subsocial crab spiders, X. bimaculatus builds nests from tree leaves. Nests contain up to 38 spiders and sometimes several adult females, indicating the species may be at a transitory stage between subsociality and permanent sociality.

Famous Stone Patients and Their Disease

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Moran, Michael E.

2007-04-01

The fact that stone patients have endured much throughout the ages and that prior to our current era, when the ultimate horror, "being cut for the stone" was the only alternative to the repeated episodes of colic, should be recalled from time to time. Urolithiasis has affected humanity throughout the ages and has been indiscriminate to those lives it touched. A full accounting of those who have suffered and recorded their agonies is beyond the scope of this investigation; however, even a partial accounting is valuable for present day physicians who care for those with stone disease. For the present work, the historical accounts of stone disease literature were scrutinized for individual sufferers who could be cross-referenced from other sources as legitimately afflicted by stones. Only those patients that could be documented and were (or are) well known were included, because the internet is now a verdant repository of thousands of "not so well knowns." Reliable historical data was found for a variety of persons from the pre-Christian era to the present, including those remembered as philosophers and scientists, physicians, clergy, leaders and rulers, entertainers, athletes and fictitious/Hollywood-type individuals. Verified accounts of famous stone formers were chosen for this paper, and are presented in chronological order. The list of urolithiasis sufferers presented here is undoubtedly incomplete, but it is not through lack of trying that they are missing. Most often, the suffering do so silently, and that is always allowed.

The model and photographer of the Portrait of a Woman submitted to the SFP in 1867 by Tessié du Motay and Maré

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Van Houtven, Andrea

2017-01-01

Cet article identifie la femme assise du Portrait de femme comme étant Marguerite Arosa, fille de Gustave Arosa, qui a collaboré avec Tessié du Motay et Maréchal, les inventeurs d’un nouveau procédé de collotype, afin de créer la Société de Phototypie Arosa et Cie. Il examine la formation de ce partenariat via son acte de constitution, et en lien avec la présentation du procédé à l’Assemblée générale de la Société Française de Photographie en avril 1867 lors de l’annonce du lauréat du concour...

[Investigation on pattern of quality control for Chinese materia medica based on famous-region drug and bioassay--the work reference].

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Yan, Dan; Xiao, Xiaohe

2011-05-01

Selection and standardization of the work reference are the technical issues to be faced with in the bioassay of Chinese materia medica. Taking the bioassay of Coptis chinensis. as an example, the manufacture process of the famous-region drugs extraction was explained from the aspects of original identification, routine examination, component analysis and bioassay. The common technologies were extracted, and the selection and standardization procedures of the work reference for the bioassay of Chinese materia medica were drawn up, so as to provide technical support for constructing a new mode and method of the quality control of Chinese materia medica based on the famous-region drugs and bioassay.

The Famous Women Dinner Service: In Conversation with Contemporary Art

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Judy Chicago

2017-11-01

Full Text Available This conversation between Judy Chicago, The Women’s Art League, and Hana Leaper, filmed by Jonathan Law at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, will be published in early 2018. The participants will discuss the Famous Women Dinner Service in relation to contemporary artworks, focusing on The Dinner Party (Judy Chicago, 1974–79 and Vagina China (The Women’s Art League, 2016–present. Questions explored will include: the role of hospitality and domesticity in feminist art projects; the evolution of iconography as it relates to aesthetic freedom and the visibility of women and their bodies; the strategies of shared authorship and collective practice; and what each of the artworks discussed offers their respective eras in terms of confronting taboos associated with women and their histories.

N250r and N400 ERP correlates of immediate famous face repetition are independent of perceptual load.

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Neumann, Markus F; Schweinberger, Stefan R

2008-11-06

It is a matter of considerable debate whether attention to initial stimulus presentations is required for repetition-related neural modulations to occur. Recently, it has been assumed that faces are particularly hard to ignore, and can capture attention in a reflexive manner. In line with this idea, electrophysiological evidence for long-term repetition effects of unattended famous faces has been reported. The present study investigated influences of attention to prime faces on short-term repetition effects in event-related potentials (ERPs). We manipulated attention to short (200 ms) prime presentations (S1) of task-irrelevant famous faces according to Lavie's Perceptual Load Theory. Participants attended to letter strings superimposed on face images, and identified target letters "X" vs. "N" embedded in strings of either 6 different (high load) or 6 identical (low load) letters. Letter identification was followed by probe presentations (S2), which were either repetitions of S1 faces, new famous faces, or infrequent butterflies, to which participants responded. Our ERP data revealed repetition effects in terms of an N250r at occipito-temporal regions, suggesting priming of face identification processes, and in terms of an N400 at the vertex, suggesting semantic priming. Crucially, the magnitude of these effects was unaffected by perceptual load at S1 presentation. This indicates that task-irrelevant face processing is remarkably preserved even in a demanding letter detection task, supporting recent notions of face-specific attentional resources.

Las epidemias de cólera en Córdoba a través del periodismo: la oferta de productos preservativos y curativos durante la epidemia de 1867-1868 Cholera epidemics in Córdoba as seen through the press: the supply of preventive and curative products during the 1867-68 epidemic

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Adrián Carbonetti

2007-06-01

Full Text Available La enfermedad es un momento de crisis tanto individual como social. La cercanía de la muerte debido a la dolencia genera en las sociedades estrategias para evadirla o curarla. Las epidemias y especialmente las de cólera tuvieron una impronta muy fuerte en la sociedad argentina y especialmente en la cordobesa ya que la primera de ellas fue devastadora en términos demográficos y sociales. En este artículo pretendemos analizar el ofrecimiento de productos, que se publicaba en la prensa escrita en la primer epidemia del año 1867/68. Partimos de la hipótesis de que los productos que se ofrecían desarrollaban un comercio de carácter suntuario que no eran objeto de transacciones comerciales habitualmente por la población en momentos no epidémicos y que a su vez estaban dirigidos hacia los sectores de mayor nivel adquisitivo.Throughout human history, disease has always represented a moment of crisis for individuals and societies. When death brought by disease hangs heavy over societies, they are led to develop strategies to prevent and cure it. Epidemics, especially cholera epidemics, have had a strong impact on Argentine society and especially on Córdoba residents, because the first cholera outbreak was demographically and socially highly devastating. In this article we analyze the supply of products advertised in the press (the only media available at the time during the first epidemic, which broke out in 1867-8. Our hypothesis is that the products available, which we believe were consumed by some groups in society, led to a sumptuary trade that was not common among the population when there were no epidemics. At times of epidemics, these products were directed towards more affluent groups. We also believe that the supply of such products changed as their trade increased.

The Micro-history of a world event: intention, perception and imagination at the Exposition universelle de 1867

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Volker Barth

2008-03-01

Full Text Available Universal exhibitions are almost exclusively described as representations of an outside reality. The authenticity of the exhibits and the relation between the display and the real thing are put into consideration to investigate the political aims and ambitions of the organizers. However, the records of the spectators show that these were more likely to evaluate the objects according to other criteria. Here exhibitions reveal themselves as events that were not judged in the first place for their capacity to represent but for their ability to create. Visitors used them to develop pleasing mental images according to their individual and hedonistic motivations. In this sense, the exhibitions did not so much hint back to the outside than rather hint forward to an evolving imaginary inside the viewer. Thus, the paper focuses on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867 to explore how and to what purpose the spectators dealt with what they saw. My aim is to analyse exhibitions as independent imaginary worlds, which serve as starting points for creative cultural actions that are very little concerned with the realness of the display.

Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century

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Junpeng Zhu; Wanzhen Chen; Hongying Fan; Bingren Zhang; Kebin Liao; Xiaolin Li; You Xu; Wei Wang

2015-01-01

The personality-descriptive adjectives used in a famous Chinese novel of the 18th century, A Dream of Red Mansions, which is thought to broadly reflect Chinese culture, might help depict personality structure. Four hundred ninety-three personality-descriptive adjectives from the first 80 chapters of the novel were administered to 732 Chinese university students. After factor analyses, the one- to seven-factor solutions...

Lugares, actitudes y momentos durante la peste: representaciones sobre la fiebre amarilla y el cólera en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, 1867-1871

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Maximiliano Ricardo Fiquepron

Full Text Available Resumen El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las distintas representaciones que sobre la salud y la enfermedad se asociaron con las epidemias de fiebre amarilla y cólera durante el período 1867-1871 en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. El argumento es que existió un repertorio muy amplio y heterogéneo de representaciones que se condensó en variadas actitudes individuales con la cual se enfrentó la crisis, así como una transformación del espacio y del tiempo social. Para poder sobrellevar esta experiencia traumática se buscó de maneras muy diversas mantener un vínculo social que era también al mismo tiempo una forma de mantener la salud.

Failure analysis of the worm gear of the actuator of the motor-valve 2-N71-MV-1867; Analisis de falla del tornillo sin fin del actuador de la motovalvula 2-N71-MV-1867

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Robles P, E. F.; Vazquez B, S.; Medina A, A. [ININ, Carretera Mexico-Toluca s/n, 52750 Ocoyoacac, Estado de Mexico (Mexico); Mar M, S. P., E-mail: eduardo.robles@inin.gob.mx [Comision Federal de Electricidad, Central Nucleoelectrica Laguna Verde, Carretera Cardel-Nautla Km 42.5, Veracruz (Mexico)

2011-11-15

In this work the results of the tests realized to the worm gear of the actuator of the motor-valve type butterfly 2-N71-MV-1867 coming from the nuclear power plant of Laguna Verde area presented, to determine the failure mechanism that caused the fracture of two of their wires. These wires present a lines model of irregular contact, what suggests the existence of non alignment in the gear-wheel system. The chemical analysis by means of optical emission spectrophotometry showed that the worm gear was manufactured starting from steel grade machinery AISI 4320H. The metallographic analysis corroborated that the chord of the worm gear was hardened superficially by means of a thermochemistry treatment of cemented, reaching a maximum hardness of cemented layer in the contact area of 58 HRC and a thickness of effective layer of 1.2 mm, also the presence of carbides precipitated in grain limits in the cemented layer was found, that which is not desirable because this increases its fragility. Likewise in the nucleus a tempering structure too much soft was revealed, 22 HRC. The analysis of the extracted fracture surfaces of the cracked areas during the operation of the worm gear, they suggest that the fracture mechanism was the fatigue of the material, which was generated starting from an em brittle cemented surface and it is spread inside a nucleus of low mechanical resistance. (Author)

Sharing one biographical detail elicits priming between famous names: Empirical and computational approaches

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Matthias eIhrke

2011-05-01

Full Text Available In this paper three experiments and corresponding model simulations are reported that investigate the priming of famous name recognition in order to explore the structure of the part of the semantic system dealing with people. Consistent with empirical findings, novel computational simulations using Burton et al.'s interactive activation and competition model point to a conceptual distinction between how priming is initiated in single- and double-familiarity tasks, indicating that priming should be weaker or non-existent for the single-familiarity task. Experiment One demonstrates that, within a double-familiarity framework using famous names, categorial and associative priming are reliable effects. Pushing the model to the limit, it predicts that pairs of celebrities who are neither associatively- nor categorially-related but who share single biographical features, both died in a car crash for example, should prime each other. Experiment Two investigated this in a double familiarity task but the effect was not observed. We therefore simulated and realized a pairwise learning task that was conceptually similar to the double-familiarity decision task but allowed to strengthen the underlying connections. Priming based on a single biographical feature could be found both in simulations and the experiment. The effect was not due to visual or name similarity which were controlled for and participants did not report using the biographical links between the people to learn the pairs. The results are interpreted to lend further support to structural models of the memory for persons. Furthermore, the results are consistent with the idea that episodic features known about people are stored in semantic memory and are automatically activated when encountering that person.

Achilles' death: anatomical considerations regarding the most famous trauma of the Trojan War.

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Anagnostopoulou, Sophia; Mavridis, Ioannis

2013-03-01

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad. As Achilles died because of a small wound on his heel, the term "Achilles' heel" has come to mean a person's principal weakness. But is the human heel a really vulnerable part of our body? Could a non-poisonous arrow have caused Achilles' death? Should an arrow be necessarily poisonous in order to cause a lethal heel would? The purpose of this effort is to explain, from an anatomic point of view, how Achilles heel wounding could have led to his death. The Achilles tendon is the strongest, largest and thickest tendon in the human body and plays an important role in the biomechanics of the lower extremity. The blood supply of the tendon is from the peroneal and posterior tibial arteries. It is quite likely that the arrow which killed Achilles was poisoned. This supposition could be of course enough to cause his death. In case the arrow was not poisoned a rupture of the posterior tibial artery by the arrow could have caused a bleeding, but it seems unlikely for such a bleeding to be lethal. Moreover, a combination of these two theories could have also taken place, i.e. a poisoned arrow traumatizing the posterior tibial artery and hence causing rapid diffusion of the poison as well as bleeding. Furthermore, infectious and/or immunologic bases regarding Achilles' death could be considered. In our opinion, a poisoned arrow was probably the crucial factor leading to the famous inglorious death of this famous glorious Homeric hero.

Description of a new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 (Characiformes: Crenuchidae) from the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, and redescription of Characidium bimaculatum Fowler, 1941.

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Melo, Marcelo R S; Espíndola, Vinicius C

2016-11-24

A new species of Characidium Reinhardt, 1867 endemic to tributaries of the upper rio Paraguaçu in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil, is described. The new species can be distinguished from its congeners except C. bahiense, C. bimaculatum, C. laterale, C. nana, C. nupelia, and C. xavante, by having a conspicuous peduncular blotch in addition to the basicaudal spot on the base of the middle caudal-fin rays. Among other features, the new species differs from C. bahiense, C. laterale, C. nana, C. nupelia, and C. xavante by having a complete lateral line with 32-36 perforated scales (vs. lateral line short, with 9-11 perforated scales), and from C. bimaculatum by the body pigmentation pattern, with secondary bars present (vs. absent), total bars 11-16 (vs. 10-12), peduncular blotch rounded (vs. horizontally elongated), and mature males not having a darker dorsal fin (vs. proximal third of dorsal fin darker in mature males). Characidium bimaculatum, a poorly known species from Northeastern Brazil, is redescribed.

Post-lobotomy epilepsy illustrated by the story of Ellinor Hamsun, the daughter of the famous Norwegian author Knut Hamsun

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Mia Tuft

2017-01-01

Most of the stories of these people are anonymous and their post-lobotomy lives are scarcely documented. If it was not for the fact that Ellinor Hamsun (1916–1987 was the daughter of the famous Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, her lobotomy story and the subsequent iatrogenic epilepsy would probably have remained unknown.

Evidence of seasonal variation in longitudinal growth of height in a sample of boys from Stuttgart Carlsschule, 1771-1793, using combined principal component analysis and maximum likelihood principle.

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Lehmann, A; Scheffler, Ch; Hermanussen, M

2010-02-01

Recent progress in modelling individual growth has been achieved by combining the principal component analysis and the maximum likelihood principle. This combination models growth even in incomplete sets of data and in data obtained at irregular intervals. We re-analysed late 18th century longitudinal growth of German boys from the boarding school Carlsschule in Stuttgart. The boys, aged 6-23 years, were measured at irregular 3-12 monthly intervals during the period 1771-1793. At the age of 18 years, mean height was 1652 mm, but height variation was large. The shortest boy reached 1474 mm, the tallest 1826 mm. Measured height closely paralleled modelled height, with mean difference of 4 mm, SD 7 mm. Seasonal height variation was found. Low growth rates occurred in spring and high growth rates in summer and autumn. The present study demonstrates that combining the principal component analysis and the maximum likelihood principle enables growth modelling in historic height data also. Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Cerambycidae (Coleoptera da Colômbia: II. Ibidionini (Cerambycinae Cerambycidae (Coleoptera of Colombia: II. Ibidionini (Cerambycinae

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Full Text Available Colombian records are given for Hexoplon albipenne Bates, 1872; H. venus Thomson, 1864; Gnomidolon rubricolor Bates, 1870; Tropidion brunneiceps (Thomson, 1865; Thoracibidion buquetii (Thomson, 1867; T. io (Thomson, 1867; Rhysium bivulneratum (Thomson, 1867; R. guttiferum (Thomson, 1867; Compsibidion maronicum (Thomson, 1867; C. varipenne Martins, 1969; ?Compsa flavofasciata (Thomson, 1867; Neocompsa squalida (Thomson, 1867; Heterachthes signaticollis (Thomson, 1865. New species described: Gnomidolon bellus,from Tolima and Neocompsa longipilis,from Santander.

Notas sinonímicas em Lepturini sul-americanos (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae Synonymical notes on South American Lepturini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae

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Miguel A. Monné

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Full Text Available Novas sinonímias propostas: Strangalia flavocincta (Thomson, 1860 = Ophistomis tristis Melzer, 1922 syn. nov. = O. latifasciata Melzer, 1926 syn. nov.; Strangalia succincta (Redtenbacher, 1867 = O. auriflua Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia melanura (Redtenbacher, 1867 = Euryptera dimidiata Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia lyrata (Redtenbacher, 1867 = Ophistomis discophora Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia fulvicornis (Bates, 1872 = Ophistomis variabilis Melzer, 1926 syn. nov. = O. flavovittata Melzer, 1926 syn. nov.; Strangalia melanophthisis (Berg, 1889 reval. = Euryptera melanura var. nigripennis Melzer, 1930 syn. nov.; Anastrangalia sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1761 (espécie introduzida na Argentina = Leptura bonaeriensis Burmeister, 1865 syn. nov.New synonyms proposed: Strangalia flavocincta (Thomson, 1860 = Ophistomis tristis Melzer, 1922 syn. nov. = O. latifasciata Melzer, 1926 syn. nov.; Strangalia succincta (Redtenbacher, 1867 = O. auriflua Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia melanura (Redtenbacher, 1867 = Euryptera dimidiata Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia lyrata (Redtenbacher, 1867 = Ophistomis discophora Redtenbacher, 1867 syn. nov.; Strangalia fulvicornis (Bates, 1872 = Ophistomis variabilis Melzer, 1926 syn. nov. = O. flavovittata Melzer, 1926 syn. nov.; Strangalia melanophthisis (Berg, 1889 reval. = Euryptera melanura var. nigripennis Melzer, 1930 syn. nov.; Anastrangalia sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1761 (species introduced in Argentina = Leptura bonaeriensis Burmeister, 1865 syn. nov.

Ostreid herpesvirus OsHV-1 μVar in Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) of the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO world heritage site.

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Gittenberger, A; Voorbergen-Laarman, M A; Engelsma, M Y

2016-01-01

The Wadden Sea is an extensive wetland area, recognized as UNESCO world heritage site of international importance. Since the mid-1990s, the invasive Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg 1793) population in the area has grown exponentially, having a distinct impact on the ecosystem. The recent spread of the emerging oyster pathogen Ostreid herpesvirus OsHV-1 μVar worldwide and specifically in the oyster culture areas in the south of the Netherlands raised the question whether the virus may also be present in the Wadden Sea. In the summer of 2012 juvenile Pacific oysters were collected from five locations in the Dutch Wadden Sea. The virus was shown to be present in three of the five locations by real-time PCR and sequencing. It was concluded that OsHV-1 μVar has settled itself in Pacific oyster reefs in the Wadden Sea. These results and the recent discoveries of OsHV-1 microvariants in Australia and Korea indicate that OsHV-1 μVar and related variants might be more widespread than can be deduced from current literature. In particular in regions with no commercial oyster culture, similar to the Wadden Sea, the virus may go undetected as wild beds with mixed age classes hamper the detection of mortality among juvenile oysters. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Successful decoding of famous faces in the fusiform face area.

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Vadim Axelrod

Full Text Available What are the neural mechanisms of face recognition? It is believed that the network of face-selective areas, which spans the occipital, temporal, and frontal cortices, is important in face recognition. A number of previous studies indeed reported that face identity could be discriminated based on patterns of multivoxel activity in the fusiform face area and the anterior temporal lobe. However, given the difficulty in localizing the face-selective area in the anterior temporal lobe, its role in face recognition is still unknown. Furthermore, previous studies limited their analysis to occipito-temporal regions without testing identity decoding in more anterior face-selective regions, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. In the current high-resolution functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study, we systematically examined the decoding of the identity of famous faces in the temporo-frontal network of face-selective and adjacent non-face-selective regions. A special focus has been put on the face-area in the anterior temporal lobe, which was reliably localized using an optimized scanning protocol. We found that face-identity could be discriminated above chance level only in the fusiform face area. Our results corroborate the role of the fusiform face area in face recognition. Future studies are needed to further explore the role of the more recently discovered anterior face-selective areas in face recognition.

About 42% of 154 remains from the "Battle of Le Mans", France (1793) belong to women and children: Morphological and genetic evidence.

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Thèves, Catherine; Cabot, Elodie; Bouakaze, Caroline; Chevet, Pierre; Crubézy, Éric; Balaresque, Patricia

2016-05-01

Mass graves were discovered in Le Mans and 154 skeletons were exhumed, representing a remarkable historical series of human remains from western France. We aimed to characterise the age-class and sex of these subjects, and to determine whether their profile fits with that of the Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée, who fought against the Republican Army during the Battle of Le Mans (12th-13th December, 1793). This atypical army was composed of male soldiers, but also of civilian people who followed the troops, including the elderly, children and women. In total 154 skeletons from nine mass graves were exhumed from 2009 to 2010. Two morphological methods were used to determine the sex of the subjects: the Probabilist Sexual Diagnosis (DSP) and Secondary Sexual Diagnosis (DSS) methods. Samples were handled cautiously to avoid any pre-laboratory contamination. Molecular genetic sex-typing using a recently developed assay was used to maximise sex-diagnosis of the ancient DNA samples, and 97 successful profiles including immatures were generated. Using morphological and genetic data combined, we successfully determined the sex of 93% of the subjects; 62% were male and 31% female. About 87% of subjects could be considered adults (>18 years old), 6% adolescents (15-19 years old) and 7% infants (Catholic and Royal Army) or passively (collateral victims from the civilian population of Le Mans). They represent 5-6% of the estimated 2500-3000 victims. Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

La Pediatría Colombiana (1867 – 1990

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Alberto Hernández Saenz

1991-09-01

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El 22 de septiembre de 1868, se inició en el país la Pediatría, era la época denominada segunda etapa de la Medicina Colombiana (1860-1939

Por Ley 66 de 1867, se fundó en Bogotá la Universidad de los Estados Unidos de Colombia (2. El médico y Presidente Santos Acosta en 1868, estableció en el pensum del cuarto año de la Escuela de Medicina, la cátedra de Obstetricia y Patología Especial de las mujeres y los niños. Esta materia constituyó el curso número 12 de los estudios médicos.

Fueron los primeros profesores (1868- 1881, dos destacados obstetras: José María Buendía, Libardo Rivas y el eminente fisiólogo Liborio Zerda.

El Profesor Alfonso Vargas Rubiano, estableció que el primer Profesor que aún no siendo pediatra, se dedicó exclusivamente a la docencia en nuestra especialidad (desde 1881, fué el doctor Gabriel J. Castañeda, quien con Liborio Zerda fue uno de los fundadores de la Sociedad de Medicina y Ciencias Naturales en 1873.

Al separarse las asignaturas: Obstetricia y Patología especial de las mujeres, nació la cátedra opcional de Patología e Higiene de la Infancia. El profesor Castañeda continuó al frente de la cátedra hasta 1891. En ese mismo año se fundó la Clínica Obstétrica e Infantil.

Emergió como somera figura José Ignacio Barberi, bogotano, graduado en la Universidad Nacional en 1881 3. Viajó a Inglaterra y regresó a Colombia con la firme intención de dedicar por entero sus esfuerzos al ejercicio de la Pediatría. Se constituyó así el profesor Barberi en nuestro primer especialista y desde 1891, comenzó a regentar la cátedra de Clínica Infantil, iniciándose entonces el tercer plan de estudios de Pediatría en la Facultad de Medicina.

El Profesor José Ignacio Barberi, concibió la creación de

Post-lobotomy epilepsy illustrated by the story of Ellinor Hamsun, the daughter of the famous Norwegian author Knut Hamsun

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Tuft, Mia; Nakken, Karl O.

2017-01-01

In Scandinavia, at least 11.500 people were lobotomized in the period 1939–1983. Beside grave personality changes, the surgery caused epilepsy in 10–35% of the patients. Moreover, many died due to perioperative bleedings, convulsive status epilepticus or SUDEP. Most of the stories of these people are anonymous and their post-lobotomy lives are scarcely documented. If it was not for the fact that Ellinor Hamsun (1916–1987) was the daughter of the famous Nobel Prize winning Norwegian author ...

Из истории фортификации и картографирования Бессарабии и Молдовы: работы Ф. Кауффера 1793-1797-х годов / From the history of fortification and mapping of Bessarabia and Moldova: F. Kauffer's works in 1793-1797

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Igori Sapozhnikov

2016-10-01

Full Text Available The article is devoted to the French cartographer and fortifier François Kauffer (1751-1801, who for the last 9 years of his life served the Ottoman Porte, but at the same time was an agent of the Russian Empire. Particular attention is given to his work in the territory of Bessarabia and Moldova, where he took part in strengthening the fortresses of Akkerman, Bender, Izmail, Kiliya, and Khotyn (in 1793-1797. The paper includes documents and lists of his manuscript maps and plans, which are stored in the Military Historical Archive (Russian Federation, Moscow.

The Hidden History of a Famous Drug : Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650-1720)

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Klein, Wouter; Pieters, Toine

2016-01-01

The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established

Famous head injuries of the first aerial war: deaths of the "Knights of the Air".

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Koul, Prateeka; Mau, Christine; Sabourin, Victor M; Gandhi, Chirag D; Prestigiacomo, Charles J

2015-07-01

World War I advanced the development of aviation from the concept of flight to the use of aircraft on the battlefield. Fighter planes advanced technologically as the war progressed. Fighter pilot aces Francesco Baracca and Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) were two of the most famous pilots of this time period. These courageous fighter aces skillfully maneuvered their SPAD and Albatros planes, respectively, while battling enemies and scoring aerial victories that contributed to the course of the war. The media thrilled the public with their depictions of the heroic feats of fighter pilots such as Baracca and the Red Baron. Despite their aerial prowess, both pilots would eventually be shot down in combat. Although the accounts of their deaths are debated, it is undeniable that both were victims of traumatic head injury.

Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa’s most famous icons

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Robert Dick-Read

2006-04-01

Madagascar was only ever of secondary importance to Indonesians compared with mineral-rich Africa. But for centuries the Austronesian-speaking, Afro-Indonesian people of Madagascar maintained regular contact with the mainland giving rise to mixed societies, particularly in the Mozambique-Zimbabwe region. He believes the ancient Zimbabwe culture was in several ways linked with that of Madagascar, and that the vast ruin area of Nyanga was also connected. These cross-channel associations were gradually eclipsed by the domination of Arab-Shirazi colonisation down the East African Coast. There is a wealth of evidence that Indonesians rounded the Cape and sailed to West Africa. Several elements of Nigerian culture generally attributed to East-West overland movements or trans-Saharan Arab traders, are more likely to have reached the lower Niger regions by sea from Indonesia. Among these was the technology enabling the iconic ‘bronze’ artwork for which Nigeria is famous.

Estimation of Tissue Distribution of mRNA Transcripts for Desaturase and Elongase Enzymes in Channa striata (Bloch, 1793 Fingerlings using PCR Technique

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M. Aliyu-Paiko

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Fish species are varied in their capacity to biosynthesize n-3 highlyunsaturated fatty acids (HUFA such as eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids (EPA & DHA that are crucial to the health and well-being of all higher vertebrates. Experts report that HUFA metabolism involves enzyme-mediated fatty acyl desaturation (FAD and elongation (FAE processes. In previous studies, different workers cloned, characterized, identified and reported several genes for FAD and FAE enzymes in different fish species such as Atlantic salmon, gilthead seabream, rainbow trout and zebrafish, and also demonstrated the up- and down-regulation in the activity of these enzymes in response to fluctuations in dietary HUFA. In this paper, we report on the expression of genes (mRNA transcripts for FAD and FAE enzymes in different tissues of Channa striata (Bloch, 1793 fingerling, to evaluate the tissues of the fish in which activity of both enzymes are high. To achieve this objective, we used conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR technique to isolate and quantify the absolute copy number for each gene transcripts from 8 different tissues of the fish (reared with a commercial feed. Our estimate show that the distribution of the 2 enzyme transcripts were significantly (P < 0.05 higher in the liver and brain of C. striata than detected in the 6 other tissues evaluated (muscle, ovary, testis, intestine, kidney and skin. Subsequently, we discuss here extensively, the implication of this observation with respect to the use of vegetable oils (VO as substitute to fish oil (FO in diets for freshwater fish species.

The Famous Women Dinner Service: A Critical Introduction and Catalogue

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Hana

2017-11-01

Full Text Available One of the most exciting and unexpected objects in the 2014 Tate Britain exhibition Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilization was a prototype plate by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant for a dinner service commissioned by Clark in 1932. The completed set of 50 plates, which feature portraits of “famous women” throughout history, survived wartime bombing and several moves of house by the Clark family, but for the past 30 years its whereabouts had been unknown to art historians. In spring 2017, prompted by the Vanessa Bell monographic exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, the owner of the dinner service contacted Piano Nobile art gallery. It soon emerged that not only was the set intact, but that the plates themselves, hand-painted on Wedgwood blanks, have been preserved in their original condition. This Look First feature offers the first opportunity for close scholarly examination of a culturally and visually potent art object. The feature uses photography, archival materials, and film to explore the process of creating the set and its place in the history of art. The present article includes a catalogue with biographical entries for each of the women featured in the set, together with source images and preparatory materials. The article text establishes where this playful, yet ground-breaking work fits within the artists’ oeuvres, and within a feminist history of art. Further materials expanding the feature’s reach, including a filmed discussion with the artist Judy Chicago, will be released in early 2018.

The lead-poisoned genius: saturnism in famous artists across five centuries.

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Montes-Santiago, Julio

2013-01-01

Lead poisoning (saturnism) has been present throughout the history of mankind. In addition to possible ingestion from contaminated food, one of the most important ways in which poisoning caused morbid processes was by occupational exposure. This exposition was pandemic in the Roman Empire, and it has been claimed that it contributed to its fall, but it also caused numerous epidemics in Western countries until the nineteenth century. In the case of artists, and since the Renaissance period, this toxicity has been called painter's colic or painter's madness. The latter term is partly due to the mental disorders displayed by some of the great masters, including Michelangelo and Caravaggio, although it was long recognized that even house and industrial painters were prone to the disorder. This chapter examines the historical evidence of recognition of such toxicity and discusses the controversies raised by the possibility of professional lead poisoning in great artists. In addition to those mentioned above, many other artists across several centuries will be discussed, some being Rubens, Goya, Fortuny, Van Gogh, Renoir, Dufy, Klee, Frida Kahlo, and Portinari. This chapter also briefly mentions the possibility of lead poisoning in two famous composers: Beethoven and Handel. Whether suffering from lead poisoning or not, about which we cannot always be sure, we should still highlight and admire such geniuses fighting their disorders to bequeath us their immortals works. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Measuring Starlight Deflection during the 2017 Eclipse: Repeating the Experiment that made Einstein Famous

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Bruns, Donald

2016-05-01

In 1919, astronomers performed an experiment during a solar eclipse, attempting to measure the deflection of stars near the sun, in order to verify Einstein's theory of general relativity. The experiment was very difficult and the results were marginal, but the success made Albert Einstein famous around the world. Astronomers last repeated the experiment in 1973, achieving an error of 11%. In 2017, using amateur equipment and modern technology, I plan to repeat the experiment and achieve a 1% error. The best available star catalog will be used for star positions. Corrections for optical distortion and atmospheric refraction are better than 0.01 arcsec. During totality, I expect 7 or 8 measurable stars down to magnitude 9.5, based on analysis of previous eclipse measurements taken by amateurs. Reference images, taken near the sun during totality, will be used for precise calibration. Preliminary test runs performed during twilight in April 2016 and April 2017 can accurately simulate the sky conditions during totality, providing an accurate estimate of the final uncertainty.

230Th-238U radioactive disequilibria in tholeiites from the FAMOUS zone (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 36050'N): Th and Sr isotopic geochemistry

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Condomines, M.; Morand, P.; Allegre, C.J.

1981-01-01

We analyzed, U, Th and 230 Th/ 232 Th activity ratios for a few tholeiites from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge FAMOUS zone at 36 0 50'N. The results show a fairly wider scatter for both Th/U and ( 230 Th/ 232 Th) ratios. Seawater contamination appears to be responsible for this scatter and, for the uranium, produces an increase in content yielding a ( 234 U/ 238 U) ratio greater than 1 and, for the Th, an increase of the ( 230 Th/ 232 Th) ratio which is a very sensitive indicator for contamination. Also, the latter often is selective: U, Th and Sr are not affected in the same manner. When discarding all data for contaminated samples, the FAMOUS zone appears to be very homogeneous with a Th/U ratio value of 3.05 and a ( 230 Th/ 232 Th) ratio value of 1.24. Comparison with other active volcanic areas reveals a negative correlation between ( 230 Th/ 232 Th) and 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios for present lavas which is indicative of a consistency in Th-U and Rb-Sr fractionation in the source regions of these magmas. The Th isotopic geochemistry can thus provide useful information for the study of present volcanism, information as valuable as that from Sr, Pb or Nd isotopes. (orig.)

ESTIMASI KELIMPAHAN IKAN GABUS (Channa striata Bloch, 1793 DENGAN METODE HIDROAKUSTIK DI SUNGAI LEMPUING, SUMATERA SELATAN

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Zulkarnaen Fahmi

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Kegiatan pengkajian stok sumberdaya ikan yang dilakukan secara berkala bertujuan untuk optimasi pemanfaatan sumberdaya perikanan bagi kegiatan perikanan tangkap. Kegiatan pengkajian stok ikandengan survey akustik di perairan Lubuk Lampam telah dilakukan pada tahun 2011 sebanyak 2 (dua kali dengan interval waktu 3 (tiga bulan untuk melihat perubahan kelimpahan ikan gabus (Channa striatadi perairan tersebut. Ekstraksi data akustik meliputi data sebaran kelimpahan dan distribusi ukuran ikan dilakukan untuk melihat keragaman (variance nilai yang diperoleh. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa estimasi rata-rata kelimpahan ikan pada bulan Maret sebesar 7.53 ± 1.33 ekor/m2  lebih rendah dibandingkan pada bulan Mei sebesar 53.11 ± 9.43  ekor/m2  . Biomass ikan pada bulan Maret sebesar 75.59 ± 30.22 kg/ha lebih rendah dibandingkan pada bulan Mei sebesar 521 ± 65.01 kg/ha. Nilai rataan target strength ikan tunggal yang terdeteksi pada bulan Maret sebesar -54.81 ± 0.9 dB lebih rendah dibandingkan pada bulan Mei sebesar -50.03 ± 0.35 dB. Estimasi kelimpahan dan distribusi ikan di sungai Lempuing menunjukkan nilai keragaman (variance yang lebih rendah pada bulan Maret dibandingkan dengan bulan Mei 2011 untuk parameter kelimpahan dan biomass ikan, sedangkan untuk nilai rataan target strength ikan menunjukkan sebaliknya. Fish assessment using hydroacoustic in inland water was conducted to optimize fish exploitation activity. Successive hydroacoustic survey was conducted twice with interval three months in 2011 to estimated distribution fish abundance and size distribution of snakehead fish (Channa striata Bloch, 1793 in Lempuing River, South Sumatera. Reability test was conducted on hydroacoustic data including data distribution and abundance of fish size distribution to obtain edvariance value. The results showed that the average estimate abundance of fish on March about 7.53 ± 1.33 fish/m2 lower than in the month of May at 53.11 ± 9.43 fish/m2

[The academic characteristics of acupuncture and moxibustion of professor ZHANG Yongshu:a famous acupuncturist in Southern Fujian].

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Xu, Weiwei; Meng, Xianjun; Zhu, Anning; Wang, Yu; Luo, Wuyougumo; Kuang, Zifang

2017-01-12

Professor ZHANG Yongshu , who studied from professor LIU Zhangjie , is a famous acupuncturist in Quanzhou of Southern Fujian. The publications authored by professor ZHANG Yongshu were collected in this study to summarize his academic characteristics of acupuncture and moxibustion. The result indicated he highly valued the regulation of yang qi , and established the theory of "developing yang to nourish yin ", which proposes to develop yang qi to achieve the effect of culturing yin ; he summarized eight methods to regulate the governor vessel and conception vessel, which can condition the body's yin and yang ; he paid attention to moxibustion therapy and its dosage, and made the best of direct moxibustion. In addition, he focused on meridian theory with effective application of meridian syndrome differentiation; in clinical treatment, he regulated the hand- yangming meridian to treat diseases by nourishing yang , generating yin and regulating fu .

Face shape and face identity processing in behavioral variant fronto-temporal dementia: A specific deficit for familiarity and name recognition of famous faces.

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De Winter, François-Laurent; Timmers, Dorien; de Gelder, Beatrice; Van Orshoven, Marc; Vieren, Marleen; Bouckaert, Miriam; Cypers, Gert; Caekebeke, Jo; Van de Vliet, Laura; Goffin, Karolien; Van Laere, Koen; Sunaert, Stefan; Vandenberghe, Rik; Vandenbulcke, Mathieu; Van den Stock, Jan

2016-01-01

Deficits in face processing have been described in the behavioral variant of fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD), primarily regarding the recognition of facial expressions. Less is known about face shape and face identity processing. Here we used a hierarchical strategy targeting face shape and face identity recognition in bvFTD and matched healthy controls. Participants performed 3 psychophysical experiments targeting face shape detection (Experiment 1), unfamiliar face identity matching (Experiment 2), familiarity categorization and famous face-name matching (Experiment 3). The results revealed group differences only in Experiment 3, with a deficit in the bvFTD group for both familiarity categorization and famous face-name matching. Voxel-based morphometry regression analyses in the bvFTD group revealed an association between grey matter volume of the left ventral anterior temporal lobe and familiarity recognition, while face-name matching correlated with grey matter volume of the bilateral ventral anterior temporal lobes. Subsequently, we quantified familiarity-specific and name-specific recognition deficits as the sum of the celebrities of which respectively only the name or only the familiarity was accurately recognized. Both indices were associated with grey matter volume of the bilateral anterior temporal cortices. These findings extent previous results by documenting the involvement of the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in familiarity detection and the right ATL in name recognition deficits in fronto-temporal lobar degeneration.

Adaptation to antifaces and the perception of correct famous identity in an average face

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Anthony eLittle

2012-02-01

Full Text Available Previous experiments have examined exposure to anti-identities (faces that possess traits opposite to an identity through a population average, finding that exposure to antifaces enhances recognition of the plus-identity images. Here we examine adaptation to antifaces using famous female celebrities. We demonstrate: that exposure to a color and shape transformed antiface of a celebrity increases the likelihood of perceiving the identity from which the antiface was manufactured in a composite face and that the effect shows size invariance (Experiment 1, equivalent effects are seen in internet and laboratory based studies (Experiment 2, adaptation to shape-only antifaces has stronger effects on identity recognition than adaptation to color-only antifaces (Experiment 3, and exposure to male versions of the antifaces does not influence the perception of female’s faces (Experiment 4. Across these studies we found an effect of order where aftereffects were more pronounced in early than later trials. Overall, our studies delineate several aspects of identity aftereffects and support the proposal that identity is coded relative to other faces with special reference to a relatively sex-specific mean face representation.

Inversión ocular en Paralichthys adspersus (Steindachner, 1867 lenguado de ojos chicos (Pleuronectiformes, Paralichthyidae: un caso del ambiente y un análisis en ejemplares cultivados

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Héctor Flores

2013-03-01

Full Text Available En diversas especies de Pleuronectiformes se han registrado casos de inversión ocular, fenómeno, en que el individuo reposa en el fondo por el lado contrario al habitual y/o normal. La proporción en que se presenta esta condición es variable y depende de las especies que se analicen. En el género Paralichthys se ha reportado inversión ocular en cuatro especies: P. albigutta, P. orbignyanus, P. californicus y P. dentatus. En el presente trabajo, se informa la captura de un ejemplar silvestre de Paralichthys adspersus (Steindachner, 1867, con inversión ocular, capturado en Caldera (Chile. También, se han reportado individuos invertidos de esta especie provenientes de un cultivo, a partir de reproductores que fueron capturados en Bahía Coquimbo. En ejemplares diestros y siniestros proveniente de cultivo, se efectuó comparación de relaciones morfométricas. La proporción de peces con inversión ocular y que provienen de un cultivo, representa 2,2% de la población de peces producidos. Se discute la frecuencia de este tipo de anomalías y las probables causas que las estarían produciendo.

Observational study of differences in head position for high notes in famous classical and non-classical male singers.

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Amarante Andrade, Pedro; Švec, Jan G

2016-07-01

Differences in classical and non-classical singing are due primarily to aesthetic style requirements. The head position can affect the sound quality. This study aimed at comparing the head position for famous classical and non-classical male singers performing high notes. Images of 39 Western classical and 34 non-classical male singers during live performances were obtained from YouTube. Ten raters evaluated the frontal rotational head position (depression versus elevation) and transverse head position (retraction versus protraction) visually using a visual analogue scale. The results showed a significant difference for frontal rotational head position. Most non-classical singers in the sample elevated their heads for high notes while the classical singers were observed to keep it around the neutral position. This difference may be attributed to different singing techniques and phonatory system adjustments utilized by each group.

Medicalización y cólera en Córdoba a fines del siglo XIX. Las epidemias de 1867-68 y 1886-87

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Adrián Carbonetti

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Una vez pasada la mitad del siglo XIX una nueva enfermedad comenzó a azotar la población argentina, generando pánico y medidas por parte del Estado a fin de combatirla. El cólera castigó a la Argentina en tres momentos en ese medio siglo: 1867- 68, 1886-87 y 1894-1895. Su impacto fue importante en las ciudades donde, a su vez, se producía un proceso de modernización creciente. Era también el momento en que la élite médica comenzaba una lenta pero inexorable legitimación y se encaramaba en el Estado como aspirante a custodiar la salud. Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las estrategias, las prácticas y los conflictos de los diferentes actores que intervinieron en los dos primeros brotes coléricos que se produjeron en la ciudad de Córdoba. Estas epidemias cobran, en este sentido, un valor importante pues son un indicador del grado de inserción de la elite médica en el Estado y de las estrategias por las cuales opta la medicina y otros actores sociales para combatirlas. De este modo, consideramos que la conformación de ciertas instituciones, como el Consejo de Higiene Provincial y la Asistencia Pública Municipal, determinó el ascenso de la élite médica a ciertos niveles del Estado, lugares desde donde pudieron legitimarse con el desarrollo de estrategias de combate contra el cólera.

Why Toluca’s chorizos are famous? Perception, reputation, identity and culinary tradition of a sausage that arrived to stay

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Quintero-Salazar B

2017-12-01

Full Text Available This document presents the history of how the fame and reputation of the most representative Toluca sausages was constructed from its beginnings to the present day. The document begins explaining the concept of foods with differentiated quality, especially meat products are. Subsequently, the way in which the pork arrived to Mexico and how it was adapted to the Toluca Valley and its implications. After, the explanation on how the production of this meat product, especially chorizo, made Toluca a famous city. Next, unique characteristics of the sausage including type of ingredients, morphology of the product, kinds and varieties are explained. Finally, a reflection is done on the importance of value traditional meat products from an integral perspective. It is concluded that chorizo toluqueño is something more than a food or a sausage, being a fundamental element of Toluca gastronomic heritage of the territory and a specific know-how that has been passed from generation to generation, and that must be revalued.

An analysis of a historical report on experiments in physics conducted by the Dominicans in Grodno in 1793 for the Polish king (in Polish

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Ewa Wyka

2016-11-01

Full Text Available From June to November 1793 Grodno (now Belarus was the place of the last session of Parliament of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with the participation of king Stanisław August Poniatowski, and it was where the second partition of Poland was approved. In the days free of parliamentary debates, Grodno’s Dominicans prepared a series of physics experiments for the king. The course of the experiments and their subject matter is known from a press release (Pismo Peryodyczne Korrespondenta 2, January 9, 1794, pp. 35–42. It is a type of daily report informing about 18 meetings, each time indicating their subject matter. This report was sufficient to recreate the course and the type of the experiments. Three thematic groups presented by the Dominicans can be distinguished. The first is a presentation of the physics cabinet – the king was visited, among others, the Nooth’s apparatus to produce “carbonated water”, a geological collection and other items used in the later shows. The second series of demonstrations was devoted to issues related to electricity. The idea and nature of lightning was also demonstrated. The third series of presentations concerned the properties of gases. In addition to other demonstrations, the Dominicans prepared an experiment which presented the process of producing water from oxygen and hydrogen. The experiment lasted all day, during which the reagents were measured: the volume of gases that were used and the mass of the water obtained. The report brings a lot of important information, indicating the level of scientific knowledge and the experimental skills of the Dominicans. It is evidence of how modern physics was taught by the Dominicans with the use of appropriate instruments for this purpose. It is also a source of knowledge about school equipment in Poland. Additionally, the report is so far one of the few well-documented public demonstrations prepared for the king. It also confirms the view that the

A technical study of alloy compositions of "brass" wind musical instruments (1651-1867) utilizing non-destructive X-ray fluorescence

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Bacon, Alice Louise

use of cementation brass to the direct method for making brass. By this means it is possible to postulate a date for the composition of a musical instrument of unknown maker and date. The idea for this thesis originated in the Horniman Museum, London, where the author of this thesis is Head of Collections Conservation and Care. However this study is augmented by instruments from other institutions. In this manner it has been possible to construct a chronology from the earliest inscribed and dated instrument by Augustine Dudley in 1651 to the demise of Charles Pace's small craftsman workshop in 1854 and his death in 1867.

Advancing Drug Discovery and Development from Active Constituents of Yinchenhao Tang, a Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula

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Aihua Zhang

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM formula has been playing a very important role in health protection and disease control for thousands of years. Guided by TCM syndrome theories, formula are designed to contain a combination of various kinds of crude drugs that, when combined, will achieve synergistic efficacy. However, the precise mechanism of synergistic action remains poorly understood. One example is a famous TCM formula Yinchenhao Tang (YCHT, whose efficacy in treating hepatic injury (HI and Jaundice syndrome, has recently been well established as a case study. We also conducted a systematic analysis of synergistic effects of the principal compound using biochemistry, pharmacokinetics and systems biology, to explore the key molecular mechanisms. We had found that the three component (6,7-dimethylesculetin (D, geniposide (G, and rhein (R combination exerts a more robust synergistic effect than any one or two of the three individual compounds by hitting multiple targets. They can regulate molecular networks through activating both intrinsic and extrinsic pathways to synergistically cause intensified therapeutic effects. This paper provides an overview of the recent and potential developments of chemical fingerprinting coupled with systems biology advancing drug discovery towards more agile development of targeted combination therapies for the YCHT.

[Billroth and Brahms: personal encounter of medicine and music].

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Hadaschik, B A; Hadaschik, E N; Hohenfellner, M

2012-02-01

Theodor Billroth and Johannes Brahms shared a decades long personal friendship. The music-loving Billroth influenced the work of the famous composer and in turn Brahms also left traces within Billroth's lifetime achievements. To shed light on the close relationship of medicine and music, this manuscript describes both Billroth's life and surgical career as they were influenced and stimulated by his close friendship to Brahms.Theodor Billroth and Johannes Brahms first met in 1865 in Zurich, Switzerland. After Billroth accepted the chair of surgery at the University of Vienna in 1867, Brahms moved to Vienna in 1869. During the following years, Billroth analyzed most of Brahms' compositions prior to publication. Similar to his effective way of teaching medical students and assistants, Billroth stimulated Brahms to publish many of his later compositions. Brahms on the other hand supported Billroth in writing his essay"Who is musical?". Furthermore, music helped Billroth to cope with the demanding working life of a surgeon.Music and surgery share both structural and emotional analogies. While both professions require meticulous techniques, personal interaction is a prerequisite for success. "Science and art scoop from the same well."

“Jeter à la face de son siècle le plus excessif outrage" La critique d'art de Joris-Karl Huysmans, une démarche décadente

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Aude Jeannerod

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Although Joris-Karl Huysmans is mostly known for his famous novel À Rebours (1884, his first steps as a writer were made in art criticism, with an article published in La Revue mensuelle about the landscape painters at the Exposition Universelle that took place in Paris in 1867. From then on, his work as an art critic often echoed his novels, expressing the same views on aesthetics and civilisation. This article discusses to what extent Huysmans's art criticism during the eighteen-eighties comes under the Decadence and an aesthetic of transgression, as well as À Rebours does. Indeed, the art critic promotes a renewal of French painting which would transgress all the prevailing policies. Furthermore, Huysmans himself breaks the laws in various ways: he violates aesthetic rules by blaming academism and standing up for independent painters; he oversteps moral boundaries asserting that art has nothing to do with morality; he infringes social standards by satirizing the bourgeoisie. On numerous occasions, Huysmans uses the transgressive power of humour to show his contempt for the constraints of tradition and his hatred toward his time.

New Carbon Dioxide Line Parameters for Atmospheric and High Temperature Applications

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1989-10-16

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VLBA Changes Picture of Famous Star-Forming Region

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2007-10-01

Using the supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the most precise measurement ever of the distance to a famous star-forming region. The measurement -- to the heavily studied Orion Nebula -- changes scientists' understanding of the characteristics of the young stars in the region. Parallax Diagram Trigonometric Parallax method determines distance to star by measuring its slight shift in apparent position as seen from opposite ends of Earth's orbit. CREDIT: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF Star Track Apparent track of star GMR A in the Orion Nebula Cluster, showing shift caused by Earth's orbital motion and star's movement in space. CREDIT: Sandstrom et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF Click on Images for Larger Files "This measurement is four times more precise than previous distance estimates. Because our measurement reduces the distance to this region, it tells us that the stars there are less bright than thought before, and changes the estimates of their ages," said Geoff Bower, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley. Bower, along with Karin Sandstrom, J.E.G. Peek, Alberto Bolatto and Richard Plambeck, all of Berkeley, published their findings in the October 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal. The scientists determined the distance to a star called GMR A, one of a cluster of stars in the Orion Nebula, by measuring the slight shift in the star's apparent position in the sky caused by the Earth's motion around the Sun. Observing the star when the Earth is on opposite sides of its annual orbit allows astronomers to measure the angle of this small shift and thus provides a direct trigonometric calculation of its distance. "By using this technique, called parallax, we get a direct measurement that does not depend on various assumptions that are required to use less-direct methods," Bower said. "Only a telescope with the remarkable ability to see fine detail that is provided by the VLBA is

Indians in Almanacs (1793-1815)

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Wenrick, Jon S.

1975-01-01

The American Indian appeared frequently in the almanac literature of 1783-1815 and was used as a source of humor, political comment, romanticism, etc, much of which contributed to the cultural conflict of the times. (JC)

32 CFR 179.3 - Definitions.

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2010-07-01

... obscuration-producing items; flame and incendiary-producing items; or soil, water, debris, or other media... components of any item thereof. The term does not include wholly inert items, improvised explosive devices...

Radioecological studies of 137Cs in limnological ecosystems. 137Cs concentrations in water, sediment and biota at the lower region of the famous river in Saitama Prefecture

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Miyake, Sadaaki; Motegi, Misako; Oosawa, Takashi; Nakazawa, Kiyoaki; Ogata, Hiromitsu; Izumo, Yoshiro; Nakamura, Fumio.

1996-01-01

The concentrations of 137 Cs in water, sediment and biota at the lower region of the famous river in Saitama prefecture were determined in order to elucidate the radioecology of 137 Cs in limnological ecosystems. 137 Cs concentration in water was 0.10 mBq/l. 137 Cs concentrations in sediment, shellfish, Sinotaia quadratus historica (mean for 2 detectable samples), and fish, Carassius auratus cuvieri (mean for 2 detectable samples), were about 6200, 840 and 320 times higher than the concentration of the water, respectively. But 137 Cs radioactivity in the crustacea, Procambarus clarki, was significantly not detected. So, 137 Cs transfer mechanism in the limnological ecosystems was indicated in part. (author)

Radioecological studies of {sup 137}Cs in limnological ecosystems. {sup 137}Cs concentrations in water, sediment and biota at the lower region of the famous river in Saitama Prefecture

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Miyake, Sadaaki; Motegi, Misako; Oosawa, Takashi; Nakazawa, Kiyoaki [Saitama Inst. of Public Health, Urawa (Japan); Ogata, Hiromitsu; Izumo, Yoshiro; Nakamura, Fumio

1996-02-01

The concentrations of {sup 137}Cs in water, sediment and biota at the lower region of the famous river in Saitama prefecture were determined in order to elucidate the radioecology of {sup 137}Cs in limnological ecosystems. {sup 137}Cs concentration in water was 0.10 mBq/l. {sup 137}Cs concentrations in sediment, shellfish, Sinotaia quadratus historica (mean for 2 detectable samples), and fish, Carassius auratus cuvieri (mean for 2 detectable samples), were about 6200, 840 and 320 times higher than the concentration of the water, respectively. But {sup 137}Cs radioactivity in the crustacea, Procambarus clarki, was significantly not detected. So, {sup 137}Cs transfer mechanism in the limnological ecosystems was indicated in part. (author).

Making Him Famous

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Johnsen, Rasmus; Worm Petersen, Kasper

2013-01-01

In 2012, the viral campaign ‘KONY 2012’ made media history. The 30-minutes video advertising the capture and prosecution of the infamous Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony became the most popular video on YouTube ever. The campaign video had a fairly simple message: in order to catch Kony, the world would...

Canada’s Evolving Crown: From a British Crown to a “Crown of Maples”

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Romaniuk Scott Nicholas

2014-12-01

Full Text Available This article examines how instruments have changed the Crown of Canada from 1867 through to the present, how this change has been effected, and the extent to which the Canadian Crown is distinct from the British Crown. The main part of this article focuses on the manner in which law, politics, and policy (both Canadian and non-Canadian have evolved a British Imperial institution since the process by which the federal Dominion of Canada was formed nearly 150 years ago through to a nation uniquely Canadian as it exists today. The evolution of the Canadian Crown has taken place through approximately fifteen discrete events since the time of Canadian confederation on July 1, 1867. These fifteen events are loosely categorized into three discrete periods: The Imperial Crown (1867-1930, A Shared Crown (1931-1981, and The Canadian Crown (1982-present.

Historical “gothic” novel in the context of English preromantic literature

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Grigorieva Elena Valentinovna

2015-06-01

Full Text Available The article discusses the development of the Gothic historical novel in English literature of the last third of the XVIII century. Initial installation on a stylized medieval romance, and attempts to reconstruct historical color associated with the overall objective aesthetic and artistic development of the Middle Ages (“The Castle of Otranto” Mr. Walpole, 1764 is replaced by the rejection of the historical and geographical exoticism and transferring activities in a much closer historical Age (K. Reeve “Old English Baron”, 1777. Image of real historical figures and famous historical events was a major literary discovery of the historic Gothic novel (S.Li “Refuge, or Tale of other times”, 1785, is preceded in this regard in the work by W. Scott. The next conquest of Gothic historical novel was the desire to enter the historical events in a common “historiosophical” story, reflecting the unbreakable laws of nature (C. Reeve, “Memoirs of Roger de Clarendon,” 1793. A similar trend is a characteristic of educational tradition, and yet, the historic Gothic novel, opens the way to a romantic historical novel, with its nostalgia for bygone times, tragic conflicts, an ideal hero, carried along by fate historic flow. Formation of the genre is analyzed in the context of socio-political and literary-aesthetic discussions era.

X-ray microdiffraction on a small piece of skin of the world-famous 'OETZI' (Tyrolean mummified glacier man)

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Brechbuehl, J.; Kern, A.; Jakob, H.; Tessadri, R.

2002-01-01

Full text: Recently we performed microdiffraction measurements on a small piece of skin (2 mm x 2 mm) of the world-famous 'Oetzi' which is one of the best preserved mummified humans ever discovered (EDWARDS et al., 1996). He has been found in a glacial field in the Tyrolean Oetztaler Alps between Austria and Italy in 1991. His age is estimated to about 5300 years. An interesting mineralogical detail of the Iceman is the growth of the mineral vivianite Fe 3 (PO 4 ) 2 .8H 2 O on the skin in contact with the surrounding weathered rocks. Vivianite is not uncommon in connection with mummies from bogs (anaerobic, non oxidizing conditions); in the case of the Iceman this seems to be the first report of vivianite from mummified humans in glacier environment (TESSADRI et al., 1996). Measurements have been performed using the Bruker AXS D8 Discover with GADDS fitted with the HI-STAR area detector. This system allows the identification and characterisation of smallest phase amounts (a few micrograms in the present case) in the shortest time possible. The blue-coloured vivianite is not continuously dispersed over the skin of 'Oetzi'; it is concentrated in form of visible particles of microscopic dimensions. With the help of the laser-video-microscope of the GADDS these particles can be recognized and precisely adjusted for microdiffraction measurements with high local resolution. Unlikely to former powder measurements with conventional diffractometers we were able to detect much more diffraction lines than the strongest reflections of vivianite. The given results impressively demonstrate the efficiency and capability of the GADDS for the phase identification in micron regions even under unpropitious conditions (weak line intensities, high background radiation). Copyright (2002) Australian X-ray Analytical Association Inc

Famous Food in Beijing

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1997-01-01

MORE than 3,000 years have passed since Shao Gongshi was granted territory at Yon (Beijing) by the King of Zhon in 1045 B.C. Ever since,Beijing has had a long and glorious history as the capital for five Chinese feudal dynasties--the Liao (907-1125), Jin (1115-1234),Yuan (1206-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing(1644-1911). As a political, cultural and economic centre,Beijing has formed a unique taste on food with many long-lasting, wellknown eateries.

Charcot’s famous secretaries

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Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive

Full Text Available ABSTRACT At the pinnacle of his career, Professor Charcot had four secretaries: Charles Féré, Pierre Marie, Georges Gilles de la Tourette and Georges Guinon. They helped the great founder of neurology with his activities at La Salpêtrière Hospital and his private clinic, examining patients before he made the final diagnosis.

[Between 100 and 200 years before the microbiome…].

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Cribier, B

2015-01-01

Before the era of microbiote, our ancestors patiently discovered, described and cultivated pathogens, including those responsible for dermatoses. The very well known ectoparasites were represented in the earliest books on cutaneous diseases at the end of XVIII(th) century and the first half of the XIX(th) century. Fungi were discovered in the 1840s, rapidly followed by numerous bacteria, including those causing tuberculosis and lepra. This article is illustrated by images that often showed for the first time parasites and bacteria in books dedicated to cutaneous diseases. Engravings and photographs from the books of Willan, Rayer and Hardy show accurate images of pathogens. Microscopic images can also be found in the textbooks of Simon, Leloir, Sabouraud, Unna and many others. Darier himself believed that "Darier's disease" was due to a parasite, which explains why he named his disease "Vegetant follicular psorospermosis". Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

Historia del Lupus

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Alvaro Rodríguez Gama

2004-09-01

Se encontrarán los lectores con una gran cantidad y calidad de biografías sobre investigaciones, médicos y científicos que han enfrentado el reto de tratar de entender y tratar el lupus, desde los médicos clásicos como Hipócrates, Galeno y Celso, los protodermatólogos Daniel Turner, Jean Astruc, Antoine Lorry y Josef von Plenk; el primer dematológo Robert Willam y médicos de los siglos XVIII y XIX como Thomas Bateman, Jean Lous Alibert, Theódore Biett, Olive Rayer, Pierre Cazenave, Antoine Bazin, Ferdinand von Hebra, Moriz Kaposi, Ernest Besnier, Alfred Fournier, Louis Brocq, Jean Darier, el clasificador Jonathan Hutchinson, Paul Unna, William Osler, Emanuel Libman, George Baehr y así decenas de colosos de la ciencia médica, cuyas historias son descritas minuciosamente por el Dr. Iglesias...

A new look on Imperial Porphyry: a famous ancient dimension stone from the Eastern Desert of Egypt—petrogenesis and cultural relevance

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Abu El-Enen, Mahrous M.; Lorenz, Joachim; Ali, Kamal A.; von Seckendorff, Volker; Okrusch, Martin; Schüssler, Ulrich; Brätz, Helene; Schmitt, Ralf-Thomas

2018-03-01

Imperial Porphyry, a famous dimension stone of spectacular purple color, was quarried in the Mons Porphyrites area north of Jabal Dokhan in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from the beginning of the first until the middle of the fifth century AD. During this period, the valuable material was processed as decorative stone and was used for objects of art, reserved exclusively for the Imperial court of the Roman Empire. Later on, only antique spoils of smaller or bigger size have been re-used for these purposes. The Imperial Porphyry is a porphyritic rock of trachyandesitic to dacitic composition that occurs in the uppermost levels of shallow subvolcanic sill-like intrusions, forming a member of the Dokhan Volcanic Suite. Its purple color is mainly due to dispersed flakes of hematite, resulting from hydrothermal alteration of a dark green Common Porphyry of similar composition, underlying the Imperial Porphyry. Both, the Common Porphyry and the purple Imperial Porphyry', are extensively exposed in the Roman quarries. Contacts between Common and Imperial Porphyry are irregular and gradational. In both rock types, intrusive breccias are frequent, indicating a complex intrusion history. U-Th-Pb zircon geochronology on two samples of Imperial Porphyry and one sample of the Common Porphyry yielded an age range of 609-600 Ma, thus confirming earlier results of radiometric dating. Geochemical evidence indicates that both the Imperial and the Common Porphyry are of medium- to high-K calc-alkaline affinity. The magmas have formed by partial melting of a subduction-modified upper mantle. The subsequent intrusion took place within a highly extended terrane (HET).

Dr. Byron McKeeby's contribution to Grant Wood's "American Gothic".

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Christen, Arden G; Christen, Joan A

2004-07-01

Grant Wood (1891-1942) was a major American regionalist artist from Iowa who produced his world famous icon, American Gothic in 1930. Along with Mona Lisa and Whistler's Mother, this work has become one of the most recognized paintings in the world. While it has been greatly admired by most of its viewers, it has been criticized by others. Currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, this oil painting portrays a grim faced farmer and his somber daughter who are resolutely standing in front of their rural, Gothic Revival farmhouse. The tall, gaunt farmer, looking straight ahead, firmly holds a pitchfork whose tines point upward, while his daughter, with her eyes averted appears to be showing disapproval. In American art, it is unusual to find the hard, cold realism and honest, direct and earthy qualities that Wood captures in American Gothic. Wood's actual intention was to present the work as a subtle and witty commentary on midwestern, rural life. To achieve his goal, Wood emulated the meticulous style and technique of the 16th century Flemish masters. His sister, Nan Wood Graham (1900-1990), and his 62-year-old dentist, Dr. Byron H. McKeeby (1867-1950), posed for the painting. This article describes how Grant developed this artistic style which is reflected in American Gothic. Additionally, it examines the strained interactions between Grant Wood, the artist, and Dr. Byron McKeeby, the model.

Ein Este im revolutionären Paris / Otto-Heinich Elias

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2012-01-01

Kirjanik August von Kotzebue ja tema eestlasest teenri reisist Saksamaale ja Prantsusmaale 1790. aastal ning reisisündmustest inspireeritud romaanist "Pikk-Hans" (Der Lange Hans", 1793), milles ta omakorda parodeerib Voltaire ühte kuulsaimat teost Candide'i

CANCER-PAthological breakdown of coherent energy states

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Pokorný, Jiří; Pokorný, Jan; Kobilková, J.; Jandová, Anna; Vrba, J.; Vrba, J. jr.

2014-01-01

Roč. 9, č. 1 (2014), s. 115-133 ISSN 1793-0480 Institutional support: RVO:67985882 ; RVO:68378271 Keywords : breakdown of coherent states * Cancer electrodynamics * Warburg effect Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering; BO - Biophysics (FZU-D)

The regulation of press freedoms (1863-1867

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Laurence Coudart

2015-10-01

Full Text Available The main objective of this essay is to analyze the legislation affecting the press during the French Intervention and the Second Mexican Empire and establish their regulatory effects. These regulations are frequently ignored by the historiography. The article is limited to the origins, innovations, mechanisms and evolution of printing regulations during this period. As a whole, this allows the reader to observe the restrictive conception of press freedom held by the Mexican political class and their willingness, during the second half of the 19th Century, to turn to prohibitive, repressive, authoritarian and centralist legislation. The article also reveals the extent to which Imperial legislation and its logic of censorship were neither unprecedented nor sudden foreign impositions but instead the expressions of a long-lasting desire for government control over the press.

Ampharetidae Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida: Polychaeta from Venezuela

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Ildefonso Liñero-Arana

2012-06-01

Full Text Available One hundred nineteen specimens of the family Ampharetidae Malmgren, collected in soft bottoms from 26 stations of the Venezuelan coast using PVC corer (0.018 m2, trawl and dredge van Veen (0.013 m3, were analyzed taxonomically. Five species were identified: Auchenoplax crinita Ehlers, 1887, Isolda pulchella F. Müller, 1858, Melinna maculata Webster, 1879, Amphicteis cf. scaphobranchiata Moore, 1906, and Hobsonia florida Banse, 1979; all are new records for Venezuela and extend the geographic distribution of these species.

17.9.3 Radical cations of diazo compounds

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Davies, A. G.

This document is part of Subvolume E2 `Phosphorus-Centered Radicals, Radicals Centered on Other Heteroatoms, Organic Radical Ions' of Volume 26 `Magnetic Properties of Free Radicals' of Landolt-Börnstein Group II `Molecules and Radicals'.

Episodic memory for human-like agents and human-like agents for episodic memory

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Brom, C.; Lukavský, Jiří; Kadlec, R.

2010-01-01

Roč. 2, č. 2 (2010), s. 227-244 ISSN 1793-8473 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z70250504 Keywords : episodic memory * virtual agent * modelling Subject RIV: AN - Psychology http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmc/02/0202/S1793843010000461.html

Tourette's syndrome in famous musicians

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Carlos Henrique F. Camargo

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Tourette's syndrome (TS is defined as a disorder characterized by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic that have lasted for not less than one year. It is a relatively complex neurobehavioral disorder, in which patients may present with coexistent attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or other behavioral comorbidities. The musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791 and the rock star Kurt Cobain (1967-1994 may both have suffered from TS, and some contemporary musicians have had their clinical condition confirmed as TS. Our hypothetical diagnosis of TS in Mozart and Cobain is based on the presence of tics and psychiatric comorbidities. In contemporary musicians, such as Michael Wolff, Nick Van Bloss and James Durbin, TS has often only been diagnosed after a considerable delay. This delay in diagnosis and the controversies surrounding the clinical case of Mozart show how difficult a confirmatory diagnosis of this complex disease is.

Famous Problems and Their Mathematicians

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1999-01-01

Why did ordering an omelet cost one mathematician his life? Answers to this and other questions are found in this exciting new resource that shows your students how 60 mathematicians discovered mathematical solutions through everyday situations. These lessons are easily incorporated into the present curriculum as an introduction to a math concept, a homework piece, or an extra challenge. Teacher notes and suggestions for the classroom are followed by extension problems and additional background material. This is a great way to spark student interest in math. Grades 5-12.

Prevalence and pathogenicity of Cryptosporidium andersoni in one herd of beef cattle

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Kváč, Martin; Vítovec, J.

2003-01-01

Roč. 50, č. 9 (2003), s. 451-457 ISSN 0931-1793 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z6022909; CEZ:MSM 122200002 Keywords : cryptosporidiosis * cattle * Cryptosporidium andersoni Subject RIV: GJ - Animal Vermins ; Diseases, Veterinary Medicine Impact factor: 0.656, year: 2003

Pärnu-Jaagupi Jakobi kirik / Rudolf Moritz von Engelhardt, Elert Thiele, Ants Laikmaa...[jt.

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välisvaade, sisevaade; olulised juurdeehitustööd 1695, uus läänetorn 1888, tornikiiver 1907 (arhitekt Rudolf von Engelhart), barokiaegne kantsel (Elert Thiele, u. 1660), varaklassitsistlik altarisein (1793), altarimaal "Kristus ristil" (Ants Laikmaa Eduard von Gebhardti järgi, 1901)

The Hidden History of a Famous Drug: Tracing the Medical and Public Acculturation of Peruvian Bark in Early Modern Western Europe (c. 1650-1720).

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Klein, Wouter; Pieters, Toine

2016-10-01

The history of the introduction of exotic therapeutic drugs in early modern Europe is usually rife with legend and obscurity and Peruvian bark is a case in point. The famous antimalarial drug entered the European medical market around 1640, yet it took decades before the bark was firmly established in pharmaceutical practice. This article argues that the history of Peruvian bark can only be understood as the interplay of its trajectories in science, commerce, and society. Modern research has mostly focused on the first of these, largely due to the abundance of medico-historical data. While appreciating these findings, this article proposes to integrate the medical trajectory in a richer narrative, by drawing particular attention to the acculturation of the bark in commerce and society. Although the evidence we have for these two trajectories is still sketchy and disproportionate, it can nevertheless help us to make sense of sources that have not yet been an obvious focus of research. Starting from an apparently isolated occurrence of the drug in a letter, this article focuses on Paris as the location where medical and public appreciation of the bark took shape, by exploring several contexts of knowledge circulation and medical practice there. These contexts provide a new window on the early circulation of knowledge of the bark, at a time when its eventual acceptance was by no means certain. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

USA kongresmen Chandler - sõber, kes aitas Eestil tunnustust leida / Eric A. Johnson, Oliver Prits

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Johnson, Eric A.

2008-01-01

Advokaadi ja USA kongressi liikme Walter M. Chandleri (1867-1935) tegevusest Balti riikide de jure tunnustamiseks. Lisatud: USA valitsuse avaldus Balti riikide tunnustamisest ; väike elulugu : Jeesuse advokaat

Mesozoic and Tertiary Anura of Laurasia

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Roček, Zbyněk

2013-01-01

Roč. 93, č. 4 (2013), s. 397-439 ISSN 1867-1594 Institutional support: RVO:67985831 Keywords : Anura * Laurasia * taxonomic diagnoses * systematic review * stratigraphy * distribution Subject RIV: EG - Zoology

« Agriculture, and Commerce as its Handmaid »

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Pierre Gervais

2006-03-01

Full Text Available This paper presents the preliminary results of a work in progress, the aim of which is an integration of Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian visions of political economy with the kind of public opinion statements which began to appear in newspapers after the end of the Constitutional debate, more specifically during the year 1793. The working hypothesis used is that there was indeed around 1792‑1793 a cristallization of two opposed worldviews, usually associated with Jefferson and Hamilton respectively, and built on conflicting views of the economy and its role, within and in spite of the « liberal consensus » stressed by recent historiography. This opposition was centered on contradictory assessments of the benefits and risks of merchant development, which can be observed easily in two important texts, the Notes on the State of Virginia and the Report on Manufactures. While Jefferson considered that the correlated growths of merchant power and market activity were inherently dangerous, and should be strictly controlled, Hamilton took a much more positive view of the same phenomena.A second part relates these two positions to an as yet small sample of patriotic toasts given during the year 1793 and printed in Philadelphia and Boston papers. By carefully analyzing the use and wording of one particular kind of thematic toast, called « economic toast, » it can be shown that, within the discourse of local political actors, there were traces of the same differential view of merchant activity which structured national political discourse.

The Euro-American genus Eopelobates, and a re-definition of the family Pelobatidae (Amphibia, Anura)

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Roček, Zbyněk; Wuttke, M.; Gardner, J. D.; Bhullar, B.-A. S.

2014-01-01

Roč. 94, č. 4 (2014), s. 529-567 ISSN 1867-1594 Institutional support: RVO:67985831 Keywords : Eopelobates * fossoriality * Green River * formation * palaeobiogeography * Pelobates * Pelobatidae Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy

Prevalence and pathogenicity of Cryptosporidium suis in pre- and post-weaned pigs

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Vítovec, J.; Hamadejová, K.; Landová, L.; Kváč, Martin; Květoňová, Dana; Sak, Bohumil

2006-01-01

Roč. 53, č. 5 (2006), s. 239-243 ISSN 0931-1793 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA524/05/0992 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60220518 Keywords : Cryptosporidium suis * piglets * pathogenicity Subject RIV: EG - Zoology Impact factor: 1.356, year: 2006

Correlates of Hypertension Among Adult Men and Women in Kosovo

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Hashani, V.; Roshi, E.; Burazeri, G.

2014-01-01

AIM: We aimed to assess the independent socioeconomic, behavioral and psychosocial correlates of hypertension among the adult population of Kosovo. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Pristina in 2012-2013 which included a large representative sample of 1793 consecutive primary

Essential role for the putative S6 inner pore region in the activation gating of the human TRPA1 channel

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Samad, Abdul

2009-01-01

Roč. 7, č. 1793 (2009), s. 1279-1288 ISSN 0167-4889 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) LC06010 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60870520 Keywords : TRPA family * RESIDUES * VOLTAGE Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.374, year: 2009

Panská sněmovna jako možné východisko pro debatu o budoucnosti Senátu?

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Malíř, Jan

2017-01-01

Roč. 156, č. 12 (2017), s. 1124-1152 ISSN 0231-6625 Institutional support: RVO:68378122 Keywords : bicameralism * The 1867 December Constitution * Herrenhaus Subject RIV: AG - Legal Sciences OBOR OECD: Law

[Medicine in notafilia--Part III].

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Babić, Rade R; Babić, Gordana Stanković

2013-01-01

Notafilia is the study of paper money. Only a few countries in the world have issued banknotes with portraits of well-known scientists who brought international fame to their own people and medicine. PORTRAITS OF SCIENTISTS ON THE BANKNOTES OF YUGOSLAVIA, SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO AND SERBIA. Nikola Tesla and Mihailo Pupin Idvorski were the ingenious inventors and scientists of our time who made special contributions to radiology. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) pioneered the use of X-rays for medical purposes, thus effectively laying the foundations of radiology and radiography, and revealed the existence of harmful effects of X-rays on the human body. Mihailo Pupin Idvorski (1854-1935) was worldwide famous for applying physics in practice, as well as in the basis of telephone and telegraph transmissions. He also studied the nature of X-rays and contributed to establishing of radiology. PORTRAITS OF SCIENTISTS ON THE BANKNOTES OF THE WORLD: Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to gain the academic title of the Academy of Medicine, Paris. Together with her husband Pierre Curie (1859-1906) she gave an outstanding contribution to science and medicine. The discovery of the radioactive elements introduced the concept of "radioactivity" into physics and "radiotherapy" as a new discipline in medicine, thus creating the conditions for the development of nuclear medicine, oncology, and mobile diagnostic radiology. This paper presents the banknotes featuring the portraits of Nikola Tesla, Mihailo Pupin Idvorski, Maria Sklodowska Curie and Pierre Curie, the world renowned scientists, who made enormous contributions to medicine and laid the foundation for radiology.

Enhancing Activity for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction: The Beneficial Interaction of Gold with Manganese and Cobalt Oxides

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Frydendal, R.; Busch, M.; Halck, N. B.; Paoli, E. A.; Krtil, Petr; Chorkendorff, I.; Rossmeisl, J.

2015-01-01

Roč. 7, č. 1 (2015), s. 149-154 ISSN 1867-3880 Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : cobalt * electrocatalysis * gold Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 4.724, year: 2015

Comparison of selected diagnostic methods for identification of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium andersoni in routine examination of faeces

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Kváč, Martin; Květoňová, Dana; Půžová, Gabriela; Ditrich, Oleg

2003-01-01

Roč. 50, č. 8 (2003), s. 405-411 ISSN 0931-1793 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IBS6022006 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z6022909 Keywords : cryptosporidiosis * diagnostic methods * cattle Subject RIV: DJ - Water Pollution ; Quality Impact factor: 0.656, year: 2003

Weeds that can do both tricks: vegetative versus generative regeneration of short-lived root-sprouting herbs Rorippa palustris and Barbarea vulgaris

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Klimešová, Jitka; Kociánová, Alena; Martínková, Jana

2008-01-01

Roč. 48, č. 2 (2008), s. 131-135 ISSN 0043-1737 R&D Projects: GA ČR GD206/03/H034 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516 Keywords : Adventitious sprouting * disturbance * Brassicaceae Subject RIV: EF - Botanics Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2008

Moderate establishment success of Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, on a sheltered intertidal mussel bed

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Holm, M.W.; Davids, J.K.; Dolmer, Per

2015-01-01

The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas Thunberg 1793) is introduced into marine ecosystems worldwide. In Denmark, C. gigas was introduced into the micro tidal Limfjord, around 1972 for aquaculture. This study describes the population structure of C. gigas at Agger Tange in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011...

Repeatability and reproducibility of in situ measurements of sound reflection and airborne sound insulation index of noise barriers

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Garai, M.; Schoen, E.; Behler, G.; Bragado, B.; Chudalla, M.; Conter, M.; Defrance, J.; Demizieux, P.; Glorieux, C.; Guidorzi, P.

2014-01-01

In Europe, in situ measurements of sound reflection and airborne sound insulation of noise barriers are usually done according to CEN/TS 1793-5. This method has been improved substantially during the EU funded QUIESST collaborative project. Within the same framework, an inter-laboratory test has

DFT analysis of the nucleophilicity of substituted pyridines and ...

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the molecules in training and test sets indicated the vali- dity of the methods (see ...... Harris R L N, Huppatz J L, Phillips J N and Teitei T. 1979 In Advances in ... Geerlings P, De Proft F and Langenaeker W 2003 Chem. Rev. 103 1793. 17.

Ameerika ostis kullatüki / Michael Craig

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Craig, Michael

2002-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriigid ostsid 1867. aastal Venemaa käest Alaska. Tehingut peeti suurimaks äparduseks, kuni sealt avastati kulda ja naftat. Katkend raamatust "50 parimat ja halvimat tehingut läbi aegade"

Generic diversity and distributional dynamics of the Palaeobatrachidae (Amphibia: Anura)

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Wuttke, M.; Přikryl, Tomáš; Ratnikov, V. Y.; Dvořák, Z.; Roček, Zbyněk

2012-01-01

Roč. 92, č. 3 (2012), s. 367-395 ISSN 1867-1594 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30130516 Keywords : Anura * Anura (Europe) * evolution * osteology * Palaeobatrachidae * palaeogeography Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy

Assessment of reflectivity of noise barriers in the far field – QUIESST method compared to traditional approach

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Roo, F. de

2013-01-01

The sound reflectivity of noise barriers elements is one of the major acoustic product characteristics. Traditionally this property was tested in reverberation rooms according to EN 1793-1 and the results were used to predict the effect of sound reflections in the far field. As in many cases these

Proceedings of the Workshop on Gulf Stream Structure and Variability Held at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on 1-2 April 1982.

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1982-04-01

recently been re-discovered (Richardson, 1980). Franklin’s grand-nephew, Jonathan Williams (1793), applied his uncle’s ideas about thermometric naviga...spheres instead of aluminum tubes. This makes them lighter and easier to handle and permits us to profile to greater depths than before. The data are

Atmospheric Pressure and Velocity Fluctuations Near the Auroral Electrojet.

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1982-01-15

various aspects of the atmosphere’s dynamical response to auroral activity have been carried out by Blumen and Hendl (1969), Testud (1970), Francis...Geophys. Res. 80, 2839, 1975. Testud , 3., Gravity waves generated during magnetic substorms, 3. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 32, 1793, 1970. Waco, D. E., A

Balancing the Stability–Activity Trade-Off by Fine-Tuning Dehalogenase Access Tunnels

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Lišková, V.; Bednář, D.; Prudnikova, Tatyana; Řezáčová, P.; Koudeláková, T.; Šebestová, E.; Kutá-Smatanová, Ivana; Březovský, J.; Chaloupková, R.; Damborský, J.

2015-01-01

Roč. 7, č. 4 (2015), s. 648-659 ISSN 1867-3880 Institutional support: RVO:67179843 Keywords : alkanes * enzymes * catalysis * halogenation * molecular dynamics * protein engineering Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.724, year: 2015

Response of broiler chickens to diets containing artificially dried ...

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Department of Animal Science, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University .... reduction in in vitro digestibility, showed that the quality of diets with stack ... some enzyme preparations are also used to increase the nutritional value of ...... Life Sci. 57, 1793-1801. Gabriel, I., Lessire, M., Mallet, S. & Guillot, J.F., 2006.

On the Steinhaus and Bergman properties for infinite products of finite groups

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Thomas, S.; Zapletal, Jindřich

2012-01-01

Roč. 4, č. 2 (2012), s. 1250002 ISSN 1793-7442 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA100190902 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10190503 Keywords : ultrafilters * products of finite groups * automatic continuity Subject RIV: BA - General Mathematics http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1793744212500028

ECOC Comparison Exercise with Identical Thermal Protocols after Temperature Offsets Correction – Instrument Diagnostics by In-depth Evaluation of Operational Parameters

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Panteliadis, P.; Hafkenscheid, T.; Cary, B.; Diapouli, E.; Fischer, A.; Favez, O.; Quincey, P.; Viana, M.; Hitzenberger, R.; Vecchi, R.; Saraga, D.; Sciare, J.; Jaffrezo, J.L.; John, A.; Schwarz, Jaroslav; Giannoni, M.; Novák, J.; Karanasiou, A.; Fermo, P.; Maenhaut, W.

2015-01-01

Roč. 8, č. 2 (2015), s. 779-792 ISSN 1867-1381 Institutional support: RVO:67985858 Keywords : OC/EC analysis * laboratory intercomparison * atmospheric aerosol Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 2.989, year: 2015

Effect of the aminoacid composition of model α-helical peptides on the physical properties of lipid bilayers and peptide conformation: a molecular dynamics simulation

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Melicherčík, Milan; Holúbeková, A.; Hianik, T.; Urban, J.

2013-01-01

Roč. 19, č. 11 (2013), s. 4723-4730 ISSN 1610-2940 Institutional support: RVO:67179843 Keywords : Bilayer lipid membranes * Helical peptides * Molecular dynamics simulations * Phase transitions Subject RIV: BO - Biophysics Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

HISTORICAL NOTE JOHN HUNTER (SURGEON) John Hunter FRS ...

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JOHN HUNTER (SURGEON). John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728-16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was the husband of Anne Hunter, a teacher, friend and ...

Teacher's Guide to Canal. The Middlesex Canal: A Role Playing Exercise.

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Holmes, Cary W.; Tedesco, Paul H.

The document consists of a role-playing game and related teacher's guide designed to illustrate decision-making processes leading to the building of the Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts in 1793. The primary educational objective is to involve students in the decision-making process through role play. The game is designed to facilitate…

Circular dichroism spectroscopy of conformers of (guanine + adenine) repeat strands of DNA

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Kejnovská, Iva; Kypr, Jaroslav; Vorlíčková, Michaela

2003-01-01

Roč. 15, č. 7 (2003), s. 584-592 ISSN 0899-0042 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR IAA4004201; GA ČR GA204/01/0561 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z5004920 Keywords : DNA conformation * (guanine + adenine) repeats * homoduplexes Subject RIV: BO - Biophysics Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2003

97 Luigi Malerba, Che vergogna scrivere, Milano: Mondadori, 1996 ...

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This collection of four loosely-connected essays deals, inter alia, with the status of literature and the writer in society. The first, "Lo scrittore come fantasma", moves from the servile position of the author during the Renaissance, to the author becoming a producer of commodities with the advent of copyright in 1793, pointing.

Substance Use among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity

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Tucker, Joan S.; Green, Harold D., Jr.; Zhou, Annie J.; Miles, Jeremy N. V.; Shih, Regina A.; D'Amico, Elizabeth J.

2011-01-01

Associations of popularity with adolescent substance use were examined among 1793 6-8th grade students who completed an in-school survey. Popularity was assessed through both self-ratings and peer nominations. Students who scored higher on either measure of popularity were more likely to be lifetime cigarette smokers, drinkers, and marijuana…

USA folkloristid tutvustavad Eestis afroameerika rahvamuusikat / Andres Roost

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Roost, Andres

2008-01-01

9. veebruaril tutvustavad USA folkloristid Anna Lomax Wood ja Todd Dunham Harvey Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi saalis Tartus John A. Lomaxi (1867-1948) ja Alan Lomaxi (1915-2002) kogutud afroameerika folkloori, näidatakse dokumentaalfilmi "Land Where the Blues Began"

Increasing knowledge on biodiversity patterns and climate changes in Earth's history by international cooperation: introduction to the proceedings IGCP 596/SDS Meeting Brussels (2015)

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Mottequin, B.; Slavík, Ladislav; Königshof, P.

2017-01-01

Roč. 97, 3 SI (2017), s. 367-374 ISSN 1867-1594 Institutional support: RVO:67985831 Keywords : editorial material * Earth's history * biodiversity * climate changes Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy OBOR OECD: Paleontology Impact factor: 1.278, year: 2016

Application of modern technologies in popularization of the Czech volcanic geoheritage

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Rapprich, V.; Lisec, M.; Fiferna, P.; Závada, Prokop

2017-01-01

Roč. 9, č. 3 (2017), s. 413-420 ISSN 1867-2477 Institutional support: RVO:67985530 Keywords : Cenozoic volcanism * augmented reality * volcano tourism Subject RIV: DC - Siesmology, Volcanology, Earth Structure OBOR OECD: Volcanology Impact factor: 1.472, year: 2016

Formulation of Sustained-Release Matrix Tablets Using Cross ...

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phenomenon. At the molecular level, it involves .... mark with simulated gastric fluid (SGF, pH. 1.2). ... erosion of the polymeric chain while anomalous .... appeared at 186.7oC disappeared while a ... substances and excipients on gel dynamics.

Depth profile analyses of nc-TiC/a-C:H coating prepared by balanced magnetron sputtering

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Vašina, P.; Souček, P.; Schmidtová, T.; Eliáš, M.; Buršíková, V.; Jílek, M.; Jílek Jr., M.; Schäfer, C.; Buršík, Jiří

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, Suppl. 2 (2011), S53-S56 ISSN 0257-8972 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20410507 Keywords : composite * mechanical properties * magnetron Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

Relationship between remnant hippocampus and amygdala and memory outcomes after stereotactic surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

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Malíková, H.; Krámská, L.; Vojtěch, Z.; Šroubek, J.; Lukavský, Jiří; Liščák, R.

2015-01-01

Roč. 2015, č. 11 (2015), s. 2927-2932 ISSN 1178-2021 Institutional support: RVO:68081740 Keywords : amygdalohippocampectomy * thermocoagulation * MRI * volumetry * neuro­psychology Subject RIV: FH - Neurology OBOR OECD: Psychology (including human - machine relations) Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2015

Evolution of anuran assemblages in the Late Cretaceous of Utah, USA

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Roček, Zbyněk; Eaton, J. G.; Gardner, J.; Přikryl, Tomáš

2010-01-01

Roč. 90, č. 4 (2010), s. 341-393 ISSN 1867-1594 R&D Projects: GA MŠk ME08066 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z30130516 Keywords : Anura * evolution * Late Cretaceous * fossil frogs * stratigraphy * Utah Subject RIV: EG - Zoology

Novel Basic Mesoporous Catalysts for Friedländer Reaction from 2-Aminoaryl Ketones: Quinolin-2(1H)-ones vs. Quinolines

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Domínguez-Fernández, F.; López-Sanz, J.; Pérez-Mayoral, E.; Bek, David; Martín-Aranda, R. M.; López-Peinado, A. J.; Čejka, Jiří

2009-01-01

Roč. 1, č. 2 (2009), s. 241-243 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR KAN100400701 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40400503 Keywords : quinolines * heterogeneous catalysis * basicity Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry

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1989-01-01

1666 : impact de la creation de l'Academie des Sciences par Colbert, trente ans apres le proces de Galile, et au moment des disparitions de Pascal, Descartes et Fermat. Elle dirigee par le hollandais Huyggens jusqu'a sa fuite de France au moment de la revocation de l'Edit de Nantes. - 1750 : l'Encyclopedie (ou "Dictionnaire raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers") de Diderot et d'Alembert, soutenus par Malherbes, Buffon, Condorcet et Rousseau. - 1789 : Revolution francaise. - 8 aout 1793 : l'Assemblee, par une declaration de Marat, dissout l'Academie des Sciences. Celle-ci continue cependant ses travaux pour les poids et mesures jusqu'en 1795. - la Terreur : la condamnation a mort, pas au nom d'une "Revolution qui n'a pas besoin de savants", de trois grands hommes de science : Lavoisier, Bailly et Condorcet. - 1793-1794 : Au printemps 93, le Comite de Salut Publique s'inquiete du demi-million de soldats etrangers de toutes les pays frontaliers qui essaient de penetrer en France pour occuper le pays. C...

La revolution des savants

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1989-01-01

Premiere cassette : - 1666 : impact de la creation de l'Academie des Sciences par Colbert, trente ans apres le proces de Galile, et au moment des disparitions de Pascal, Descartes et Fermat. Elle dirigee par le hollandais Huyggens jusqu'a sa fuite de France au moment de la revocation de l'Edit de Nantes. - 1750 : l'Encyclopedie (ou "Dictionnaire raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers") de Diderot et d'Alembert, soutenus par Malherbes, Buffon, Condorcet et Rousseau. - 1789 : Revolution francaise. - 8 aout 1793 : l'Assemblee, par une declaration de Marat, dissout l'Academie des Sciences. Celle-ci continue cependant ses travaux pour les poids et mesures jusqu'en 1795. - la Terreur : la condamnation a mort, pas au nom d'une "Revolution qui n'a pas besoin de savants" mais pour d'autres raisons, de trois grands hommes de science : Lavoisier, Bailly et Condorcet. - 1793-1794 : Au printemps 93, le Comite de Salut Publique s'inquiete du demi-million de soldats etrangers de toutes les pays frontaliers qui essai...

Foundation calculation for buildings and structures with two elastic characteristics of the foundation using features of Fourier transformsfor finite functions

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Kurbatskiy Evgeniy Nikolaevich

2014-01-01

Full Text Available The problem of a beam resting on elastic foundation often occurs in the analysis of building, geotechnical, highway, and railroad structures. Its solution demands modeling of the mechanical behavior of the beam, the mechanical behavior of the soil as elastic subgrade and the form of interaction between the beam and the soil. The oldest, most famous and most frequently used mechanical model is the one devised by Winkler (1867, in which the beam-supporting soil is modeled as a series of closely spaced, mutually independent, linear elastic vertical springs, which, evidently, provide resistance in direct proportion to the deflection of the beam.The solution is presented for the problem of an Euler–Bernoulli beam supported by an infinite two-parameter Pasternak foundation. The beam is subjected to arbitrarily distributed or concentrated vertical loading along its length. Static response of a beam on an elastic foundation characterized by two parameters is investigated assuming, that the beam is subjected to external loads and two concentrated edge load. The governing equations of the problem are obtained and solved by pointing out that there is a concentrated edge foundation reaction in addition to a continuous foundation reaction along the beam axis in the case of complete contact in the foundation reactions of the two-parameter foundation model. The proposed method is based on the properties of Fourier transforms of the finite functions. Particular attention is paid to the problem, taking into account the deformation of soil areas outside the beam. The beam model with two foundation coefficients more realistically describes the behavior of strip footings under loading.

Complex and biofluids: From Maxwell to nowadays

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Misbah, Chaouqi

2009-11-01

Complex fluids are the rule in biology and in many industrial applications. Typical examples are blood, cartilage, and polymer solutions. Unlike water (as well as domestic oils, soft clear drinks, and so on), the law(s) describing the behavior of complex fluids are not yet fully established. The complexity arises from strong coupling between microscopic scales (like the motion of a red blood cell in the case of blood, or a polymer molecule for a polymer solution) and the global scale of the flow (say at the scale of a blood artery, or a channel in laboratory experiments). In this issue entitled Complex and Biofluids a large panel of experimental and theoretical problems of complex fluids is exposed. The topics range from dilute polymer solutions, food products, to biology (blood flow, cell and tissue mechanics). One of the earliest model put forward as an attempt to describe a complex fluid was suggested a long time ago by James Clerk Maxwell (in 1867). Other famous scientists, like Einstein (in 1906), and Taylor (in 1932) have made important contributions to the field, but the topic of complex fluids still continues to pose a formidable challenge to science. This field has known during the past decade an unbelievable upsurge of interest in many branches of science (physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology, medical science, mathematics, and so on). Understanding complex fluids is viewed as one of the biggest challenge of the present century. This synthesis will provide a simple introduction to the topic, summarize the main contribution of this issue, and list major open questions in this field. To cite this article: C. Misbah, C. R. Physique 10 (2009).

In vivo expusure to 17β-estradiol triggers premature sperm capacitation in cauda epididymis

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Děd, Lukáš; Šebková, N.; Černá, M.; Elzeinová, Fatima; Dostálová, Pavla; Pěknicová, Jana; Dvořáková-Hortová, K.

2013-01-01

Roč. 145, March 2013 (2013), s. 255-263 ISSN 1470-1626 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : 17β-estradiol * sperm capacitation * RTqPCR * tyrosine phosphorylation Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 3.262, year: 2013

In vivo exposure to 17beta-estradiol triggers premature sperm capacitation in cauda epididymis

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Děd, Lukáš; Šebková, N.; Černá, M.; Elzeinová, Fatima; Dostálová, Pavla; Pěknicová, Jana; Dvořáková-Hortová, K.

2013-01-01

Roč. 145, č. 3 (2013), s. 255-263 ISSN 1470-1626 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : Estrogen * Estrogen receptor * 17β-estradiol * Sperm capacitation Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics Impact factor: 3.262, year: 2013

Emission of PCDD/Fs from Domestic Combustion Using Various Woods, Biofuel and Coals

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Ocelka, T.; Tomšej, T.; Horák, J.; Šyc, Michal; Krpec, K.; Hopan, F.; Stáňa, M.

LVI, č. 2 (2010), s. 149-154 ISSN 1210-0471 R&D Projects: GA MŽP(CZ) SP/1A2/116/07; GA MŠk 2B08048 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40720504 Keywords : combustion * solid fuels * emission factors Subject RIV: DI - Air Pollution ; Quality http://transactions.fs.vsb.cz/2010-2/1793.pdf

Impact of "JOBM": ISI Impact Factor Places the "Journal of Organizational Behavior Management" Third in Applied Psychology

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Hantula, Donald A.

2006-01-01

The ISI Impact Factor for "JOBM" is 1.793, placing it third in the JCR rankings for journals in applied psychology with a sharply accelerating linear trend over the past 5 years. This article reviews the Impact Factor and raises questions regarding its reliability and validity and then considers a citation analysis of "JOBM" in light of the…

Addressing Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Evaluation of Washington's Prevention and Intervention Services Program. 2001-03 Final Report.

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Deck, Dennis D.

2004-01-01

To directly address the state of Washington's concerns regarding student alcohol and other drug use, in 1989 the state Legislature passed the Omnibus Alcohol and Controlled Substances Act (ESSHB 1793). One part of this act called for the creation of a school-based alcohol and other dug abuse prevention and early intervention program. The Office of…

Dehydration of Sodium Carbonate Decahydrate to Monohydrate in a Fluidized Bed

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Hartman, Miloslav; Veselý, Václav; Svoboda, Karel; Trnka, Otakar; Beran, Z.

2001-01-01

Roč. 47, č. 10 (2001), s. 2333-2340 ISSN 0001-1541 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA203/98/0101; GA AV ČR IAA4072711 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z4072921 Keywords : gas-solid reactions * sulfur-dioxide * thermal dehydration Subject RIV: CI - Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2001

Integration of parametric measures and the statics of masonry panels

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Lucchesi, M.; Šilhavý, Miroslav; Zani, N.

2011-01-01

Roč. 2, č. 1 (2011), s. 33-44 ISSN 1867-6936 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10190503 Keywords : masonry panels * limit analysis * integration of measures Subject RIV: BA - General Mathematics http://www.springerlink.com/content/e0086750m731182u/

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Rotation-invariant fingerprint matching using radon and DCT

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Sangita Bharkad

2017-11-20

Nov 20, 2017 ... [6] Bazen A and Gerez S 2003 Fingerprint matching by thin- plate spline modeling of elastic deformations. Pattern. Recogn. 36(8): 1859–1867. [7] Jain A, Hong L and Bolle R 1997 On-line fingerprint veri- fication. IEEE Trans.

Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the marine sponge genus Acarnus (Porifera: Poecilosclerida)

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Soest, van R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Hiemstra, F.

1991-01-01

Cosmotropical species reported in the genus Acarnus, viz. A. innominatus Gray (1867), A. tortilis Topsent (1892) and A. souriei Levi (1952), are demonstrated to show small, but consistent interregional morphological differences, leading to the conclusion that these “species” are very probably

Una asignatura pendiente: El arreglo de la llamada deuda española durante el porfiriato

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Pi-Suñer Llorens, Antonia

2003-08-01

Full Text Available We analyze, through primary sources, the different steps that the Mexican post-intervention administrations (1867-1890 took towards the final settlement of the so called Spanish debt. This problem had lasted for almost 50 years and had been the stumbling block in Mexican-Spanish relations. At the same time we study the different diplomatic attitudes of both countries.

Se analiza, a través de documentación primaria, la manera en que los gobiernos mexicanos de la post-intervención (1867-1890 resolvieron definitivamente el problema de la llamada deuda española que se venía arrastrando desde hacía prácticamente 50 años y que había sido la mayor causa de conflictos entre México y España, a la vez que se examinan las posturas diplomáticas de ambos países.

ignas semmelweis: the doctor who championed hand -washing

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1). He died on 13th August 1867 at the age of 47 years in Vienna, Australia. He initially studied law at the University of Vienna in 1837 but changed to medicine in 1838 obtaining his doctorate degree in 1844. He later specialized in obstetrics.

Redescription of the type of Lomaptera cambodiensis Wallace, and its allocation to Ischiopsopha gestro (Coleoptera, Cetoniidae)

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Willemstein, S.C.

1971-01-01

During my study of the Cetoniid genus Thaumastopeus Kraatz, I found Lomaptera cambodiensis Wallace, 1867, listed under Thaumastopeus in Junk's Coleopterorum Catalogus (Schenkling, 1921). A male specimen in the collection of the late F. T. Valck Lucassen (containing material ex coll. O. E. Janson and

Intercomparison of 15 Aerodynamic Particle Size Spectrometers (APS 3321): Uncertainties in Particle Sizing and Number Size Distribution.

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Pfeifer, S.; Müller, T.; Weinhold, K.; Zíková, Naděžda; dos Santos, S.M.; Marinoni, A.; Bischof, O.F.; Kykal, C.; Ries, L.; Meinhardt, F.; Aalto, P.; Mihalopoulos, N.; Wiedensohler, A.

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Roč. 9, č. 4 (2016), s. 1545-1551 ISSN 1867-1381 EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 262254 - ACTRIS Institutional support: RVO:67985858 Keywords : counting efficiency * aerodynamic particle size spectrometers * laboratory study Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 3.089, year: 2016

Statistical Analysis of Past Catalytic Data on Oxidative Methane Coupling for New Insights into the Composition of High-Performance Catalysts

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Zavyalova, U.; Holeňa, Martin; Schlögl, R.; Baerns, M.

2011-01-01

Roč. 3, č. 12 (2011), s. 1935-1947 ISSN 1867-3880 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10300504 Keywords : catalyst development * heterogeneous catalysis * methane * oxidative coupling * catalyst composition * statistical analysis Subject RIV: IN - Informatics, Computer Science Impact factor: 5.207, year: 2011

Extra-Large-Pore Zeolites with UTL Topology: Control of the Catalytic Activity by Variation in the Nature of the Active Sites

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Shamzhy, Mariya; Shvets, O. V.; Opanasenko, Maksym; Kurfiřtová, Lenka; Kubička, D.; Čejka, Jiří

2013-01-01

Roč. 5, č. 7 (2013), s. 1891-1898 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR GBP106/12/G015 Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : acidity * active sites * Beckmann rearrangement Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 5.044, year: 2013

Frank Lloyd Wright - väike maja saab suureks : meistriklass / Pille Nagel

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Nagel, Pille

2006-01-01

Frank Lloyd Wrighti (1867-1959) eramuloomingust. Preeriamajadest, usonia majadest, krundist ja maastikust algavast arhitektuurist, katustest ja horisontaalsusest, plaanist, tasapindade ja kõrguste muutumistest, akendest, autovarjualustest, materjalidest ja värvidest, privaatsusest ja avatusest, inimlikust mõõtmest jm. 11 värv. vaadet, plaan

Feed-Forward Neural Networks and Minimal Search Space Learning

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Neruda, Roman

2005-01-01

Roč. 4, č. 12 (2005), s. 1867-1872 ISSN 1109-2750 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA201/05/0557 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10300504 Keywords : search space * feed-forward networks * genetic algorithm s Subject RIV: BA - General Mathematics

ACTRIS non-methane hydrocarbon intercomparison experiment in Europe to support WMO GAW and EMEP observation networks

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Hoerger, C. C.; Claude, A.; Plass-Duelmer, C.; Reimann, S.; Eckart, E.; Steinbrecher, R.; Aalto, J.; Arduini, J.; Bonnaire, N.; Cape, J. N.; Colomb, A.; Connolly, R.; Diskova, J.; Dumitrean, P.; Ehlers, C.; Gros, V.; Hakola, H.; Hill, M.; Hopkins, J. R.; Jäger, J.; Junek, R.; Kajos, M. K.; Klemp, D.; Leuchner, M.; Lewis, A. C.; Locoge, N.; Maione, M.; Martin, D.; Michl, K.; Nemitz, E.; O´ Doherty, S.; Pérez Ballesta, P.; Ruuskanen, T. M.; Sauvage, S.; Schmidbauer, N.; Spain, T. G.; Straube, E.; Váňa, Milan; Vollmer, M. K.; Wegener, R.; Wenger, A.

2015-01-01

Roč. 8, č. 7 (2015), s. 2715-2736 ISSN 1867-1381 Institutional support: RVO:67179843 Keywords : carbon number concept * organic trace gases * experiment nomhice * ozone precursor * response factors * ambient air * atmosphere * emission Subject RIV: DI - Air Pollution ; Quality Impact factor: 2.989, year: 2015

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Diversity and distribution of fossil codlets (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Bregmacerotidae): review and commentary

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Přikryl, Tomáš; Brzobohatý, R.; Gregorová, R.

2016-01-01

Roč. 96, č. 1 (2016), s. 13-39 ISSN 1867-1594 R&D Projects: GA ČR GP13-19250P Institutional support: RVO:67985831 Keywords : Bregmacerotidae * codlets * fish * Gadiformes * Neogene * osteology * Paleogene Subject RIV: DB - Geology ; Mineralogy Impact factor: 1.278, year: 2016

Lead Polluted Hotspot: Environmental Implication of Unplanned Industrial Development

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Rikta Sharmin Yousuf

2016-06-01

Full Text Available In Rayer Bazaar, different industries like tannery, plastic, textile, battery recycling industry etc. are increasing rapidly without considering the environmental issues and deterioration. Since chromium (Cr pollution of this area has been widely investigated due to the presence of tannery industries, this study was focused on examining other environmental factors. Field visits and analytical results of semi-quantitative and quantitative analysis as well as three dimensional excitation emission matrix spectroscopy (3DEEM of water, soil and vegetative tissues indicated that, the area is highly polluted in term of different environmental parameters and metal content. The extremely high lead (Pb content of the soil (1171.7 mg/kg in summer, 2157.1 mg/kg in winter and blackish materials of vegetative tissues (6585.6 mg/kg in summer, 1974.1 mg/kg in winter indicates excessive lead deposition of this area that makes it a lead polluted hotspot. One of the possible sources of the extremely high lead concentration is adjacent battery recycling industry and/or other industries surrounding this area. So it is urgent to take necessary steps to find out immediate options for possible mitigation.

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Cribier, B

2017-01-01

Atopic dermatitis has been described under many names before the XXth century, and first illustrated in the early XIXth century. This article presents historical images from the first volumes of Robert Willan to the Pratique dermatologique, the first encyclopedy published in 1900. Many accurate clinical descriptions of the disease can be found in the early treaties of dermatology, including the one published by Thomas Carrere in 1740. Since then, Alibert and Rayer in France, Hebra and Neumann in Vienna and Duhring and Fox in the USA illustrated their atlases with spectacular images of adults or children suffering from AD, or from other diseases that might have been considered as eczema infantile. Color engravings, color lithographs and black and white photographs showed with an increasing precision the semiology of AD, in the context of artistic representations of high quality, that have not been surpassed by modern photographs. At the beginning of the XXth century the clinical presentation, the course and heredity of the disease were perfectly established, introducing a new era of research in physiopathology and treatment in the following decades. © 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits réservés.

Effect of estrogens on boar sperm capacitation in vitro

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Děd, Lukáš; Dostálová, Pavla; Dorosh, Andriy; Dvořáková-Hortová, K.; Pěknicová, Jana

2010-01-01

Roč. 8, - (2010), --- ISSN 1477-7827 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06011; GA ČR(CZ) GD523/08/H064; GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : capacitation * acrosome reaction * monoclonal antibody * estrogen * flow cytometry Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics Impact factor: 1.695, year: 2010

Effect of nitrogen on tribological properties of amorphous carbon films alloyed with titanium

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Musil, Jindřich; Hromadka, M.; Novák, P.

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, Jul (2011), S84-S88 ISSN 0257-8972 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522 Keywords : Ti(N,C)/a-C films * mechanical properties * friction * wear * reactive magnetron sputtering Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

Barreda, Vasconcelos, and Mexican Educational Reforms.

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Skirius, John

1983-01-01

Reviews the contributions to Mexican education of Gabino Barredas' positivism between 1867-1898 and the contributions of Jose Vasconcelos during the 1920s. Discusses the secondary curriculum reforms of Barreda's era and the vocational education and the education for women and adults during the Vasconcelos era. (SB)

Serum Potassium Levels and Outcome in Acute Heart Failure (Data from the PROTECT and COACH Trials)

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Tromp, Jasper; ter Maaten, Jozine M.; Damman, Kevin; O'Connor, Christopher M.; Metra, Marco; Dittrich, Howard C.; Ponikowski, Piotr; Teerlink, John R.; Cotter, Gad; Davison, Beth; Cleland, John G. F.; Givertz, Michael M.; Bloomfield, Daniel M.; van der Wal, Martje H. L.; Jaarsma, Tiny; van Veldhuisen, Dirk J.; Hillege, Hans L.; Voors, Adriaan A.; van der Meer, Peter

2017-01-01

Serum potassium is routinely measured at admission for acute heart failure (AHF), but information on association with clinical variables and prognosis is limited. Potassium measurements at admission were available in 1,867 patients with AHF in the original cohort of 2,033 patients included in the

Transformation and reconstitution of Khoe-San identities : AAS le Fleur I, Griqua identities and post-apartheid Khoe-San revivalism (1894-2004)

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Besten, M.P.

2006-01-01

Focussing on AAS le fleur I (1867-1941), the Griqua, and post-apartheid Khoe-San revivalism, the dissertation examines changes in the articulation of Khoe-San identities in South-Africa. It shows the significance of shifting political, cultural and ideological power relations on the articulation of

Folkloor bluusi sünnimaalt

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2008-01-01

9. veebruaril tutvustavad USA folkloristid Anna Lomax Wood ja Todd Dunham Harvey Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi saalis Tartus John A. Lomaxi (1867-1948) ja Alan Lomaxi (1915-2002) kogutud afroameerika folkloori, näidatakse dokumentaalfilmi "Land Where the Blues Began" ja esineb Emajõe deltabluesi ansambel Bullfrog Brown

Revision of the West Palaearctic species of the genus Agathis Latreille (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Agathidinae)

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Simbolotti, G.; Achterberg, van C.

1999-01-01

The West Palaearctic species of the genus Agathis Latreille, 1804 (Braconidae: Agathidinae) are revised and keyed. Forty-six species of Agathis are treated as valid, of which 29 occur in Europe; three species of the former Agathis mediator group (Bassus brevicaudus (Reinhard, 1867) comb. nov., B.

Geosite and geomorphosite assessment as a tool for geoconservation and geotourism purposes: a case study from Vizovická vrchovina Highland (eastern part of the Czech Republic)

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Kubalíková, L.; Kirchner, Karel

2016-01-01

Roč. 8, č. 8 (2016), s. 5-14 ISSN 1867-2485 Institutional support: RVO:68145535 Keywords : geotourism, geoconservation * geosite and geomorphosite assessment * Vizovická vrchovina Highland Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12371-015-0143-2

First record of the Indo-Pacific areolate grouper Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Perciformes: Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Rothman, Shevy B S; Stern, Nir; Goren, Menachem

2016-01-25

The number of alien species in the Mediterranean Sea is steadily increasing and it seems that the pace has been accelerating since the turn of the century (Galil et al. 2014). In 2015 alone five additional fish species have been reported, Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Golani et al. 2015); Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt, 1823) (Fricke et al. 2015); Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) (Stern et al. 2015); Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Capapé et al. 2015); and Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Rothman & Goren 2015). Among the ca. 100 alien fish species reported from the Mediterranean to date (Galil & Goren 2014), five Indo-Pacific species belong to the genus Epinephelus Bloch, 1793: Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton, 1822), Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775), Epinephelus malabaricus (Bloch and Schneider, 1804) Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 (Golani et al. 2013a) and Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Golani et al. 2015). Additional alien Epinephelus species reported from the Mediterranean are excluded for various reasons (Golani et al. 2013b). Here we report the finding of a sixth Indo-Pacific species of this genus along the Mediterranean coast of Israel.

Ocorrência e recomendações para o manejo de Sirex noctilio Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Siricidae em plantios de Pinus patula (Pinaceae em Minas Gerais, Brasil Occurrence and management recommendations of Sirex noctilio Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Siricidae on Pinus patula (Pinaceae plantations in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Edson Tadeu Iede

2007-12-01

Full Text Available A vespa-da-madeira Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1793 (Hymenoptera, Siricidae é a praga mais importante das florestas cultivadas com Pinus spp. no Brasil. Foi introduzida no Rio Grande do Sul em 1988 e sua dispersão ficou restrita aos estados do sul do país até 2004, quando foi detectada em São Paulo. Neste trabalho é relatada a ocorrência de S. noctilio em plantios de Pinus patula em Minas Gerais, em janeiro de 2005. São discutidas algumas medidas que podem ser adotadas para restringir a dispersão de S. noctilio na região Sudeste.The woodwasp Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1793 (Hymenoptera, Siricidae is the most important pest on Pinus spp. in Brazil. It was introduced in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in 1988 and dispersed through the southern states. In 2004 it was detected in São Paulo state. In this work, it is reported the occurrence of S. noctilio in the state of Minas Gerais, in January 2005, on commercial areas of Pinus patula. It is discussed some measures that can be adopted to restrict its spread in the southeastern region.

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... Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Washington... section 7 of the Bank Service Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1867), of the relationship with a bank service... their availability policies to customers, and begin accruing interest on such deposits promptly. The...

Geomorphological Inventory as a Tool for Proclaiming Geomorphosite (a Case Study of Mt. Myslivna in the Novohradské hory Mts. — Czech Republic)

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Rypl, J.; Kirchner, Karel; Dvořáčková, S.

2016-01-01

Roč. 8, č. 1 (2016), s. 393-400 ISSN 1867-2485 Institutional support: RVO:68145535 Keywords : geomorphological inventory * GPS mapping * Novohradské hory Mts. * Mt. Myslivna * geomorphosite Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12371-015-0169-5

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....482. Therefore, $18.67 * 1.482 = $27.70. Lifebuoy: $72. http://www.amazon.com/RING-BUOY-WHITE-COAST... more Indian tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian tribes. K. Energy Effects...

Low pressure plasmachemical processing of multi-walled carbon nanotubes for the production of polyurethane composite films with improved mechanical properties

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Zajíčková, L.; Eliáš, M.; Buršíková, V.; Studýnková, Z.; Mazánková, V.; Michlíček, M.; Houdková, Jana

2013-01-01

Roč. 538, Jul (2013), s. 7-15 ISSN 0040-6090 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0068 Institutional support: RVO:68378271 Keywords : plasma functionalization * CCP * carbon nanotubes * polyurethane composites Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

Notes on the genus Pirdana Distant, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

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Jong, de R.; Treadaway, C.G.

1993-01-01

In the Oriental genus Pirdana Distant, 1886, the new species P. fusca is described from Samar (E Philippines). The phylogeny of the genus is discussed and as a consequence the endemic Sulawesi taxon P. hyela ismene (Felder & Felder, [1867]) is given back its species rank, bringing the total number

Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Cyclic Ketones by Using Tin-Silica Pillared Catalysts

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Přech, Jan; Carretero, M. A.; Čejka, Jiří

2017-01-01

Roč. 9, č. 15 (2017), s. 3063-3072 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR GBP106/12/G015 Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : heterogeneous catalysis * ketones * layered * zeolites Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry OBOR OECD: Physical chemistry Impact factor: 4.803, year: 2016

Adverse effect of tetracycline and doxycycline on testicular tissue and sperm parameters in CD1 outbred mice

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Elzeinová, Fatima; Pěknicová, Jana; Děd, Lukáš; Kubátová, Alena; Margaryan, Hasmik; Dorosh, Andriy; Makovický, P.; Rajmon, R.

2013-01-01

Roč. 65, Sep (2013), s. 911-917 ISSN 0940-2993 R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06011; GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : Tetracycline * Doxycycline * Testes * Sperm * Apoptosis * Puberty Subject RIV: DN - Health Impact of the Environment Quality Impact factor: 2.005, year: 2013

Effects of thermal ageing on the static and cyclic mechanical properties of carbon fibres/PDMS composites for use in medicine

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Suchý, Tomáš; Sedláček, R.; Sucharda, Zbyněk; Balík, Karel; Bouda, T.

2013-01-01

Roč. 16, Suppl. 1 (2013), s. 255-257 ISSN 1025-5842. [Congress of the Société de Biomécanique /38./. Marseille, 04.09.2013-06.09.2013] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP108/10/1457 Institutional support: RVO:67985891 Keywords : polymeric composite * carbon fiber * sterilization * nanoindentation Subject RIV: JI - Composite Materials Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2013

‘Het witte spook van Mesdag’. De bruid van Matthijs Maris opnieuw bezien’

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Bionda, R.W.A.

2013-01-01

The Bride (1867-'68) by Matthijs Maris in The Mesdag Collection is without doubt one of his most intriguing early works. Though he defensively described it as only a 'sketch' which he could not bring to a satisfying end, Maris considered this fairly large piece as quite important. Regardless of its

Trichomonas Vaginalis infection among women in Ikwuano Abia ...

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A study on Trichomoniasis was conducted to determine the prevalence, symptoms and factors that promote the transmission of Trichomonas vaginalis among women of Ikwuano in Abia State using high vaginal swab and urine samples. A total of 600 women aged between 14-60years were examined and 112 (18.67%) ...

Synthesis and characterization of Bi.sub.1-x./sub.Nd.sub.x./sub.FeO.sub.3./sub. thin films deposited using a high throughput physical vapour deposition technique

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Darby, M.S.B.; Karpinsky, D.V.; Pokorný, Jan; Guerin, D.; Kholkin, A. L.; Miao, S.; Haydn, B.E.; Reaney, I. M.

2013-01-01

Roč. 531, MAR (2013), s. 56-60 ISSN 0040-6090 Institutional support: RVO:68378271 Keywords : bismuth ferrite * piezoelectric * neodymium doped * high throughput * combinatorial * physical vapour deposition Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004060901201646X

Infection Prevention and Control in Deployed Military Medical Treatment Facilities

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2011-08-01

to surgery in 1867.31 Supported by the discoveries of Louis Pasteur (in the 1850s–1860s) that germs (bacteria) were the cause of putrification (pus...Kirkup BC Jr, et al. Surveillance, characterisation, and preservation of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Lancet Infect Dis. 2011;11: 8–10. 50. Lesho E

« Weegee… The Famous »

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Frédéric Perrier

2008-01-01

Full Text Available For the pictures in this book (Naked City I was on the scene ;sometimes drawn there by some power I can’t explain,and I caught the New Yorkers withtheir masks off… not afraid to Laugh, Cry, or make love.What I felt I photographed, laughing and crying with them.Des panneaux 4 par 3 sur la ligne 12 du métro parisien affichent un cow-boy avachi sur la banquette d’un restaurant (« Cow-Boy fatigué dans les années 1940 » et indiquent aux voyageurs pressés : « Weegee — Musée Maillol — Dans la coll...

Famous Threesomes: Uncommon Uses for Common Stories.

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Spears, Jo Ann Lohl

2003-01-01

This article presents a unit of fun and developmentally satisfying activities, using familiar folk stories focusing on threesomes. Each example involves story time, block center, art center, dramatic play, listening area, math and manipulatives center, folder game, group times, cooking, writing center, discovery center, and the music and movement…

This famous cloud...Tchernobyl. The polluted France

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Jacquemin, J.M.

1998-01-01

The Tchernobyl nuclear accident is discussed. During two years the author conducts a meticulous inquiry regarding this accident, at medical and scientific sources. He shows the responsible persons; but who are the offenders? The second part of the book deals with the ecological and medical consequences in France and in ex-USSR. (A.L.B.)

Faith of a novelist : religion in John Galsworthy's work

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Knoester, Maarten Willem

2006-01-01

Most readers are familiar with the British author John Galsworthy (1867-1933) through his The Forsyte Saga (1922), A Modern Comedy (1929) and The End of the Chapter (1934). He wrote many other novels as well, and in his own times he was also known as a leading dramatist. Literary criticism and

Low-Temperature and High-Pressure p-rho-T Relation for 1-(2-Methoxyethyl)-1-methylpyrrolidinium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide and 1-C-n-3-methylimidazolium Thiocyanate with n=2 and 4

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Klomfar, Jaroslav; Součková, Monika; Pátek, Jaroslav

2015-01-01

Roč. 60, č. 6 (2015), s. 1855-1867 ISSN 0021-9568 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA13-00145S Institutional support: RVO:61388998 Keywords : ionic liquid * 1-(2-Methoxyethyl)-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide * thiocyanate anion * experimental pvT data Subject RIV: BJ - Thermodynamics Impact factor: 1.835, year: 2015

Envisioning science : Marie Curie's journey from Poland to Paris

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Odlin, S.; Fleming, J.S.

2011-01-01

Marya Sklodovska (nicknamed Manya), born November 1867, was the fifth and youngest child in the Sklodovski family. Marie Curie epitomised the ability to be beautifully creative. Her pioneering spirit gave her the drive to become one of the first women to gain an education, and qualifications, in the sciences. 5 refs., 1 fig.

Effects of Language of Instruction on Learning of Literacy Skills among Pre-Primary School Children from Low-Income Urban Communities in Kenya

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Hungi, Njora; Njagi, Joan; Wekulo, Patricia; Ngware, Moses

2018-01-01

This study investigates the relationship between the language of instruction and learning of literacy skills among pre-primary school children in a multilingual environment. The sample consists of 1867 learners from low-income urban households, attending 147 low-cost private pre-primary schools located in low-income areas of Nairobi, Kenya. About…

Nota sobre o comportamento de agregação dos machos de Oxaea austera Gerstaecker (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Oxaeinae na caatinga do Estado da Bahia, Brasil Notes on a male sleeping aggregation behavior of Oxaea austera Gerstaecker (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Oxaeinae in the caatinga of Bahia State, Brazil

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Favízia Freitas de Oliveira

2002-03-01

Full Text Available This note reports for the first time a "male sleeping aggregation" of the solitary bee Oxaea austera Gerstaecker, 1867 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Oxaeinae found near the town of Iaçú, Bahia, in Northeastern Brazil. This is also the first record of a species of Oxaea for the caatinga ecosystem.

Gastrointestinal Parasites of Indigenous and Introduced Primate Species of Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania

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Petrášová, J.; Modrý, David; Huffman, M. A.; Mapua, Mwanahamissi Issa; Bobáková, Lucia; Mazoch, Vladimír; Singh, J.; Kaur, T.; Petrželková, Klára Judita

Roč. 31, č. 5 ( 2010 ), s. 920-936 ISSN 0164-0291 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA524/06/0264; GA ČR GA206/09/0927; GA AV ČR KJB600930615 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60220518; CEZ:AV0Z60930519 Keywords : Chimpanzee * Parasite * Parasite richness * Prevalence * Primate introduction Subject RIV: GJ - Animal Vermins ; Diseases, Veterinary Medicine Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2010

Dislocation mechanism of twinning in Ni-Mn-Ga

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Zárubová, Niva; Ge, Y.; Gemperlová, Juliana; Gemperle, Antonín; Hannula, S.-P.

2012-01-01

Roč. 5, č. 1 (2012), "1250006-1"-"1250006-4" ISSN 1793-6047 R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP107/10/0824; GA ČR(CZ) GAP107/11/0391; GA AV ČR IAA100100920 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100520 Keywords : Ni-Mn-Ga shape memory alloy * martensitic transformation * in situ TEM straining Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.270, year: 2012

Fortid nr. 3/2006. Globalhistoriske utfordringer

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2006-01-01

Leder: Globalhistoriske utfordringer (s. 5) Korttekster: Middelalderreligiøsitet, pasifisme, arbeidsrett og afrikansk samarbeid - variert forskning fra IAKH. Av Inger Hilde Killerud (s. 6) Historietidsskrifter gratis på nett. Av Inger Hilde Killerud (s. 7) Et kvinneuniversitet i Norge anno 1793. Av Håkon Evju (s. 7-8) Tema: Globalhistoriske utfordringer Verdenshistorie - hvorfor og hvordan? Av Knut Kjeldstadli (s. 10-14) Globalhistorie i praksis. Av Jarle Simensen (s. 1...

Paratrypanosoma Is a Novel Early-Branching Trypanosomatid

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Flegontov, Pavel; Votýpka, Jan; Skalický, Tomáš; Logacheva, M.D.; Penin, A.A.; Tanifuji, G.; Onodera, N. T.; Kondrashov, A.S.; Volf, P.; Archibald, J.M.; Lukeš, Julius

2013-01-01

Roč. 23, č. 18 (2013), s. 1787-1793 ISSN 0960-9822 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP305/11/2179; GA ČR GD206/09/H026 Grant - others:GA MŠk(CZ) ED3.2.00/08.0144; GA MŠk(CZ) LM2010005 Institutional support: RVO:60077344 Keywords : Paratrypanosoma * isolate * phylogeny Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology Impact factor: 9.916, year: 2013

Aging of nanocluster Ti/TiOx films prepared by means of gas aggregation cluster source

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Drábik, M.; Choukourov, A.; Artemenko, A.; Matoušek, J.; Polonskyi, O.; Solař, P.; Pešička, J.; Lorinčík, Jan; Slavínská, D.; Biederman, H.

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, SUPPL. 2 (2011), S48-S52 ISSN 0257-8972. [12th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 13.09.2010-17.09.2010] Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z20670512 Keywords : Aging * Cluster source * Oxidation Subject RIV: JA - Electronics ; Optoelectronics, Electrical Engineering Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

Joannes Jacobus Smith

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Lam, H.J.

1937-01-01

J. J. Smith was born June 29th, 1867, at Antwerp, where his father was the director of the Netherlands’ Railway Post Office. In 1872 the family moved to Utrecht and in 1875 to Amsterdam. Smith spent his school days in the capital. His leisure hours were occupied by growing and sketching plants and

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Home; Journals; Resonance – Journal of Science Education; Volume 6; Issue 3. Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934). Featured Scientist Volume 6 Issue 3 March 2001 pp 98-98. Fulltext. Click here to view fulltext PDF. Permanent link: https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/006/03/0098-0098. Resonance – Journal of ...

Reactive magnetron sputtering of Si-C-N films with controlled mechanical and optical properties

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Vlček, J.; Kormunda, M.; Čížek, J.; Soukup, Z.; Peřina, Vratislav; Zemek, Josef

2003-01-01

Roč. 12, č. 8 (2003), s. 1287-1294 ISSN 0925-9635 R&D Projects: GA MŠk ME 203; GA MŠk OC 527.90 Institutional research plan: CEZ:MSM 235200002 Keywords : silicon-carbon-nitride films * magnetron co-sputtering Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2003

Optimization of Barron density estimates

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Vajda, Igor; van der Meulen, E. C.

2001-01-01

Roč. 47, č. 5 (2001), s. 1867-1883 ISSN 0018-9448 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA102/99/1137 Grant - others:Copernicus(XE) 579 Institutional research plan: AV0Z1075907 Keywords : Barron estimator * chi-square criterion * density estimation Subject RIV: BD - Theory of Information Impact factor: 2.077, year: 2001

De gemaskerde god. Francois Haver Schmidt en het Oera Linda- boek

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Jensma, Goffe Theunis

2004-01-01

The subject of this study is the so-called Oera Linda Book, an enigmatic manuscript which turned up in 1867 as an heirloom in the house of Cornelis over de Linden (Enkhuizen 1811- Den Helder 1874). Over de Linden, who worked as a shipwright at the naval dockyard in the city of Den Helder, had

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home after her father's insolvency. Her brother. Theo (23 in 1867), headmaster of the local public school, was head of the little household, with their sister Ettie (17) as housekeeper. In the following year their younger brother Will, then eleven, joined them. The four remained together until 1870 when. Thea and Will went to ...

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were learning in the academic year. 2004/05. Of this, 1,867 of them ... foreign language learning (English, for this matter) from the point of ... English classes taking their way to preparatory school and the language's use as medium of instruction in to account. The study is, therefore, supposed to be important for two reasons.

Prehistoric floods on the Tennessee River—Assessing the use of stratigraphic records of past floods for improved flood-frequency analysis

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Harden, Tessa M.; O'Connor, Jim E.

2017-06-14

Stratigraphic analysis, coupled with geochronologic techniques, indicates that a rich history of large Tennessee River floods is preserved in the Tennessee River Gorge area. Deposits of flood sediment from the 1867 peak discharge of record (460,000 cubic feet per second at Chattanooga, Tennessee) are preserved at many locations throughout the study area at sites with flood-sediment accumulation. Small exposures at two boulder overhangs reveal evidence of three to four other floods similar in size, or larger, than the 1867 flood in the last 3,000 years—one possibly as much or more than 50 percent larger. Records of floods also are preserved in stratigraphic sections at the mouth of the gorge at Williams Island and near Eaves Ferry, about 70 river miles upstream of the gorge. These stratigraphic records may extend as far back as about 9,000 years ago, giving a long history of Tennessee River floods. Although more evidence is needed to confirm these findings, a more in-depth comprehensive paleoflood study is feasible for the Tennessee River.

A taxonomic review of the Norwegian species of Raphitoma (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Raphitomidae

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Tore Høisæter

2016-02-01

Full Text Available The problematic conoidean genus Raphitoma s.l. in inshore Norwegian waters is revised based on fresh material from all along the coast of Norway. This largely shallow water group is represented by at least six species in Norwegian waters of which two, Raphitoma obesa n.sp. and R. maculosa n.sp. are described as new, and another Raphitoma aequalis (Jeffreys, 1867 is reported from Norway for the first time. The taxonomic and nomenclatural status of R. reticulata (sensu Jeffreys 1867 and R. asperrima (sensu Forbes & Hanley 1853 are discussed. Empty shells of several additional species indicate that the number of Raphitoma-species living in the North East Atlantic will be further increased in the future. The morphological variability of each species is described if possible. Shell morphology, including microsculpture and protoconch details as deduced from LM photographs, are used for distinguishing the species. Some easily observable behaviour and soft part morphology features were found to bepromising areas for further studies.

Greek Gods and Heroes

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Peter Schoon,; Sander Paarlberg,

2001-01-01

Many famous en less famous myths and historic events from Greek antiquity painted by Dutch and Flemish artists from the 16th and 17th century. For the first time a broad selection of paintings and prints with subjects from Greek mythology and history are exposed. Famous painters like Rembrandt,

Reisolation and redescription of Balantidium duodeni Stein, 1867 (Litostomatea, Trichostomatia)

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Chistyakova, L. V.; Kostygov, A.Y.; Kornilova, O. A.; Yurchenko, Vyacheslav

2014-01-01

Roč. 113, č. 11 (2014), s. 4207-4215 ISSN 0932-0113 Institutional support: RVO:60077344 Keywords : Balantidium duodeni * phylogeny * 18S rRNA * transmission electron microscopy Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology OBOR OECD: Biochemistry and molecular biology Impact factor: 2.098, year: 2014

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Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and several parts of Asia. The Merion Gerbil. The Indian desert gerbil Meriones hurrianae (Figure 1) is found in abundance in the Great Indian or the Thar desert. Its range does not extend east of the Aravallis. The species was first described by J erdon in 1867 on the basis of specimens collected ...

Angle-resolved investigation of ion dynamics in high power impulse magnetron sputtering deposition system

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Čada, Martin; Adámek, Petr; Straňák, V.; Kment, Štěpán; Olejníček, Jiří; Hubička, Zdeněk; Hippler, R.

2013-01-01

Roč. 549, DEC (2013), s. 177-183 ISSN 0040-6090 R&D Projects: GA MŠk LD12002 Institutional support: RVO:68378271 Keywords : HiPIMS * titania * Katsumata probe * ion sensitive probe * IVDF * angular resolution Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040609013011127

Deposition of hematite Fe.sub.2./sub.O.sub.3./sub. thin film by DC pulsed magnetron and DC pulsed hollow cathode sputtering system

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Hubička, Zdeněk; Kment, Štěpán; Olejníček, Jiří; Čada, Martin; Kubart, T.; Brunclíková, Michaela; Kšírová, Petra; Adámek, Petr; Remeš, Zdeněk

2013-01-01

Roč. 549, Dec (2013), s. 184-191 ISSN 0040-6090 R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP108/12/2104; GA MŠk LH12043 Grant - others:AVČR(CZ) M100101215 Institutional support: RVO:68378271 Keywords : HIPIMS * thin films * hollow cathode Subject RIV: BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

Convective Diffusion from Strip-like Microprobes into Colloidal Suspensions

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Wein, Ondřej

2010-01-01

Roč. 53, 9-10 (2010), s. 1856-1867 ISSN 0017-9310 R&D Projects: GA ČR GA104/08/0428; GA ČR GA104/09/0972 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z40720504 Keywords : electrodiffusion friction probes * microdisperse fluid flow * longitudinal diffusion Subject RIV: CI - Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Impact factor: 1.898, year: 2010

Institutional innovation in less than ideal conditions: management of commons by an Alaska Native village corporation

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Dixie Dayo; Gary Kofinas

2010-01-01

Alaska Natives have experienced less than ideal conditions for engaging in management of their homeland commons. During the first 100 years after the Treaty of Cession of 1867, Alaska Natives received limited recognition by the United States. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) was signed into law by President Richard Nixon after tedious...

Solid Acid Catalysts for Coumarin Synthesis by the Pechmann Reaction: MOFs versus Zeolites

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Opanasenko, Maksym; Shamzhy, Mariya; Čejka, Jiří

2013-01-01

Roč. 5, č. 4 (2013), s. 1024-1031 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR GBP106/12/G015 Grant - others:European Commission(XE) FP7/2007-2013, contract 228862 Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : mesoporous molecular sieves * metal -organic frameworks * heterogeneous catalysis Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 5.044, year: 2013

Deactivation Pathways of the Catalytic Activity of Metal– Organic Frameworks in Condensation Reactions

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Opanasenko, Maksym; Dhakshinamoorthy, A.; Čejka, Jiří; Garcia, H.

2013-01-01

Roč. 5, č. 6 (2013), s. 1553-1561 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR GBP106/12/G015 Grant - others:European Commission(XE) FP7/2007-2013, contract 228862 Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : aldehydes * CC coupling * heterogeneous catalysis Subject RIV: CF - Physical ; Theoretical Chemistry Impact factor: 5.044, year: 2013

die geometriese en riviergrense van suidwes-afrika, met spesiale ...

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tuig die" Star" oak gestuur am die Britse vlag by al die aandoenplekke langs die weskus tot so ver as Angola te ... Anderson wat oak tussen 1859 en 1867 verkenningstogte in die land onderneem het, het veral die ylbe- .... upon maps where no White man's foot has ever trod; we have been giving away mountains and rivers ...

Spatial distribution of forest aboveground biomass estimated from remote sensing and forest inventory data in New England, USA

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Daolan Zheng; Linda S. Heath; Mark J. Ducey

2008-01-01

We combined satellite (Landsat 7 and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) and U.S. Department of Agriculture forest inventory and analysis (FIA) data to estimate forest aboveground biomass (AGB) across New England, USA. This is practical for large-scale carbon studies and may reduce uncertainty of AGB estimates. We estimate that total regional forest AGB was 1,867...

Kolmest Eestis loodud tehiskeelest ja nende loojatest / Ülo Lumiste, Leo Võhandu

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Lumiste, Ülo, 1929-2017

2007-01-01

Baltisakslane Edgar de Wahl (1867-1948) oli tehiskeele oksidentaal looja ja matemaatikaõpetaja Tallinna Reaalgümnaasiumis. Jakob Linzbach (1874-1953) ja Jaan Sarv (1877-1954) kujundasid oma kunstlikke märgikeeli, mida liigitatakse pasigraafia alla. Lisa: Esimene rahvusvaheline teoreetilise, matemaatilise ja rakendusliku keeleteaduse alane olümpiaad (8.-12. september 2003, Bulgaaria) : individuaalvõistluse ülesanne

Effects of the Linking of Cyclopentadienyl and Ketimide Ligands in Titanium Half-sandwich Olefin Polymerization Catalysts

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Varga, Vojtěch; Večeřa, M.; Gyepes, R.; Pinkas, Jiří; Horáček, Michal; Merna, J.; Lamač, Martin

2017-01-01

Roč. 9, č. 16 (2017), s. 3160-3172 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-08531S; GA ČR(CZ) GA17-13778S Institutional support: RVO:61388955 Keywords : ketimide ligands * olefin polymerization catalysts * cyclopentadienyl Subject RIV: CD - Macromolecular Chemistry OBOR OECD: Polymer science Impact factor: 4.803, year: 2016

Joseph McCabe: A Forgotten Early Populariser of Science and Defender of Evolution

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Cooke, Bill

2010-01-01

Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) was one of the most prolific and gifted polymaths of the twentieth century. Long before such a thing was thought respectable, and almost a century before any university established a chair in the public understanding of science, McCabe made a living as a populariser of science and a critic of philosophical and religious…

Stonehaven Island Extension, Density, and Calcification Data for 1793 to 1990

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce — Extension, Density, and Calcification data from 35 Porites coral cores covering the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Data set contains 35...

75 FR 1793 - Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings

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2010-01-13

...; Cancer Biomarker Genomics/Proteomics. Date: February 3, 2010. Time: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Agenda: To review...; Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study Section. Date: February 4-5, 2010. Time...

Sperm surface protein AQ1 spermadhesin and ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in porcine anti-polyspermy defense

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Jonáková, Věra; Postlerová, Pavla; Young-Joo, Y.; Sutovsky, P.; Pěknicová, Jana

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 8-9 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : spermadhesin * ubiquitin * proteasome Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry

Notes on Apidae and Vespidae (Hymenoptera) Species Collected by Bait Traps in OrganicVineyard and Orchards of Kemalpaşa (İzmir), Western Turkey

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ÜZÜM, Ahu; TANYERİ, Rukiye; GÜLPERÇİN, Nilay; TEZCAN, Serdar; YILDIRIM, Erol

2010-01-01

Hymenoptera species collected by bait traps during the months of June-October in organic vineyard and orchards in Kemalpaşa district, (İzmir) of Western Turkey were evaluated in this study. As a result, six species belonging 2007 to two families of Hymenoptera were determined. Those were Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758, Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793), Vespa crabro Linnaeus, 1758, Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771, Polistes dominulus (Christ, 1791) and Polistes gallicus (Linnaeus, 1767). Amon...

Copépodes parasitos de Oligoplites spp. (Osteichthyes, Carangidae) da costa brasileira, com a redescrição de Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson, 1908 (Siphonostomatoida, Tuxophoridae)

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Takemoto, Ricardo Massato; Universidade Estadual de Matingá; Luque, José Luis; UFRRJ; Luque, José Luis; UFRRJ

2008-01-01

Four species of caligid copepods, parasites of Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1833), O. saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) and O. saliens (Bloch, 1793) (Osteichthyes: Carangidae) from the Sepetiba Bay, coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are presented. New geographical and host records for Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898, C. rufimaculatus Wilson, 1905, C. bonito Wilson, 1905 and Metacaligus rufus (Wilson, 1908) are given. Caligus oligoplitisi Carvalho, 1954 is considered a new jun...

Evaluation of elastic properties of DLC layers using resonant ultrasound spectroscopy and AFM nanoindentation

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Kocourek, Tomáš; Růžek, Michal; Landa, Michal; Jelínek, Miroslav; Mikšovský, Jan; Kopeček, Jaromír

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, č. 2 (2011), S67-S70 ISSN 0257-8972 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA101/09/0702 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522; CEZ:AV0Z20760514 Keywords : RUS-resonant ultrasound spectroscopy * PLD * diamond-like carbon * elastic properties * AFM nanoindentation Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

The sixth catalogue of galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, their past and present

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Hucht, K.A. van der; Conti, P.S.; Lundstroem, I.; Stenholm, B.

1981-01-01

This paper presents the Sixth Catalogue of galactic Wolf-Rayet stars (Pop I), a short history on the five earlier WR catalogues, improved spectral classification, finding charts, a discussion on related objects, and a review of the current statur of Wolf-Rayet star research. The appendix presents a bibliography on most of the Wolf-Rayet literature published since 1867. (orig.)

Mechanical and tribological properties of coatings sputtered from SiC target in the presence of CH.sub.4./sub. gas

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Kulykovskyy, Valeriy; Vorlíček, Vladimír; Čtvrtlík, Radim; Boháč, Petr; Suchánek, J.; Bláhová, O.; Jastrabík, Lubomír

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, č. 11 (2011), s. 3372-3376 ISSN 0257-8972 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR KAN301370701; GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06002 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522 Keywords : amorphous SiC films * sputtering * hardness * coefficient of friction * Raman spectra Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

Halogen bond tunability II: the varying roles of electrostatic and dispersion contributions to attraction in halogen bonds

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Riley, Kevin Eugene; Murray, J. S.; Fanfrlík, Jindřich; Řezáč, Jan; Solá, R. J.; Concha, M. C.; Ramos, F. M.; Politzer, P.

2013-01-01

Roč. 19, č. 11 (2013), s. 4651-4659 ISSN 1610-2940 R&D Projects: GA ČR GBP208/12/G016 Grant - others:Operational Program Research and Development for Innovations(XE) CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0058 Institutional support: RVO:61388963 Keywords : dispersion * electrostatics * halogen bonding * noncovalent interactions Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

New data on the genus Albinaria (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) from the island of Astypalea and neighboring islets (Dodecanese Archipelago, Greece)

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Liberto, Fabio; Grano, Mauro; Cattaneo, Cristina; Colomba, Maria Stella; Sparacio, Ignazio; 4th International Congress on Biodiversity “Man, Natural Habitats and Euro-Mediterranean Biodiversity”

2017-01-01

The highly diverse genus Albinaria Vest, 1867 (Pulmonata: Clausiliidae) is present in the Dodecanese archipelago with 12 species and 32 subspecies. Species identification is almost exclusively based on shell morphology and recent molecular studies have largely confirmed species classification based on shell morphology. In this communication A. brevicollis astropalia from the South-West of the island is redescribed and discussed in detail.

Scientific Opinion on the substantiation of health claims related to eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) and maintenance of normal cardiac function (ID 504, 506, 516, 527, 538, 703, 1128, 1317, 1324, 1325), maintenance of normal blood glucose, -cholesterol concentrations (ID 527, 538, 1317, 1325, 4689), protection of the skin from photo-oxidative (UV-induced) damage (ID 530), improved absorption of EPA and DHA (ID 522, 523)

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EFSA-Q-2008-1291 , EFSA-Q-2008-1293 , EFSA-Q-2008-1303 , EFSA-Q-2008-1307 , EFSA-Q-2008-1309 , EFSA-Q-2008-1310 , EFSA-Q-2008-1314 , EFSA-Q-2008-1317 , EFSA-Q-2008-1325 , EFSA-Q-2008-1353 , EFSA-Q-2008-1490 , EFSA-Q-2008-1867 , EFSA-Q-2008-2054 , EFSA-Q-2008-2061 , EFSA-Q-2008-2062 , EFSA-Q-2008-...

Empire: New Mexico's First Television Program

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Meade, Roger Allen [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

2016-11-14

In recent years, New Mexico has hosted television and motion picture film crews working on both famous and not-so-famous productions. Perhaps the most famous of these productions was the television hit Breaking Bad. Perhaps the least famous production, which almost certainly no one remembers, is the 1962-1963 television series Empire. Empire was an hour long western that chronicled the lives of 1960s ranchers in New Mexico. The series starred Richard Egan, Ryan O’Neal, Denver Pyle, and Charles Bronson. Guest stars included Robert Vaughn (The Man from Uncle), Inger Stevens (The Farmer’s Daughter), Robert Culp (I Spy), and Telly Savalas (Kojak).

Blazing the trail essays by leading women in science

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Ideal, Emma

2013-01-01

Name a famous scientist. Got one? Now name a famous physicist. Ok, now name a famous female physicist. Ok, now name a famous living female physicist. Stumped? In Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science, 35 highly successful physicists, engineers, and chemists share their personal histories, their passion for discovery, and their secrets for success with the next generation. Essayists candidly recount their experiences – both positive and negative – with an uplifting tone, focusing on lessons learned along the way. The combination of personal stories and advice sends a powerful message to all young women considering scientific careers: I did it, so can you. Here’s how.

El subgénero Trigona S. Str. Jurine 1808 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) en Colombia

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Édgar Javier Hernández Martínez; Guiomar Nates Parra

2004-01-01

Para Colombia se registran 28 de los 29 taxones descritos para el subgénero Trigona s. str. T. (T.) albipennis Almeida, 1992; T. (T.) amalthea Olivier, 1789; T. (T.) hyalinata var. amazonensis Ducke, 1916; T. (T.) hyalinata var. branneri Cockerell, 1912; T. (T.) chanchamayoënsis Schwarz, 1948; T. (T.) cilipes Fabricius, 1804; T. (T.) corvina Cockerell, 1913; T. (T.) crassipes Fabricius, 1793; T. (T.) dallatorreana Friese, 1900; T. (T.) dimidiata var. venezuelana Schwarz, 1948; T. (T.) dimi...

El subgénero Trigona S. Str. Jurine 1808 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) en Colombia

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Hernández Martínez Édgar Javier; Nates Parra Guiomar

2004-01-01

Para Colombia se registran 28 de los 29 taxones descritos para el subgénero Trigona s. str. T. (T.) albipennis Almeida, 1992; T. (T.) amalthea Olivier, 1789; T. (T.) hyalinata var. amazonensis
Ducke, 1916; T. (T.) hyalinata var. branneri Cockerell, 1912; T. (T.) chanchamayoënsis Schwarz, 1948; T. (T.) cilipes Fabricius, 1804; T. (T.) corvina Cockerell, 1913; T. (T.) crassipes Fabricius, 1793; T. (T.) dallatorreana Friese, 1900; T. (T.) dimidiata var. venezuelana Schwarz, 1948; T. (...

Characterization of human sperm protein recognized by monoclonal antibody HS-8

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Margaryan, Hasmik; Čapková, Jana; Pěknicová, Jana

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 27-28 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : monoclonal antibody * GAPDHS * human sperm proteins * mass spectrometry Subject RIV: EC - Immunology

Effect of estrogens on boar sperm capacitation in vitro

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Děd, Lukáš; Dostálová, Pavla; Dorosh, Andriy; Dvořáková-Hortová, K.; Pěknicová, Jana

2010-01-01

Roč. 33, Supplement 1 (2010), s. 93-93 ISSN 0105-6263. [6th European Congress of And rology. 29.09.2010-01.10.2010, Athens] R&D Projects: GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06011; GA ČR(CZ) GA523/08/H064; GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : spermatozoa * capacitation * monoclonal antibody * estrone * 17beta-estradiol * estriol * 17alpha-ethynylestradiol Subject RIV: EI - Biotechnology ; Bionics

Atmospheric pressure barrier torch discharge and its optimization for flexible deposition of TiO.sub.2./sub. thin coatings on various surfaces

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Kment, Štěpán; Klusoň, Petr; Žabová, Hana; Churpita, Olexandr; Chichina, Mariya; Čada, Martin; Gregora, Ivan; Krýsa, J.; Hubička, Zdeněk

2009-01-01

Roč. 204, č. 5 (2009), s. 667-675 ISSN 0257-8972 R&D Projects: GA AV ČR KJB100100703; GA AV ČR KAN301370701; GA AV ČR KAN400720701; GA ČR GA202/09/0800 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522; CEZ:AV0Z40720504 Keywords : atmospheric plasma * thin layers * titanium dioxide * PECVD * optical emmision spectroscopy Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.793, year: 2009

Increased Cardiometabolic Risk and Worsening Hypoxemia at High Altitude

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Miele, Catherine H.; Schwartz, Alan R.; Gilman, Robert H.; Pham, Luu; Wise, Robert A.; Davila-Roman, Victor G.; Jun, Jonathan C.; Polotsky, Vsevolod Y.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Leon-Velarde, Fabiola; Checkley, William

2016-01-01

Miele, Catherine H., Alan R. Schwartz, Robert H. Gilman, Luu Pham, Robert A. Wise, Victor G. Davila-Roman, Jonathan C. Jun, Vsevolod Y. Polotsky, J. Jaime Miranda, Fabiola Leon-Velarde, and William Checkley. Increased cardiometabolic risk and worsening hypoxemia at high altitude. High Alt Med Biol. 17:93���100, 2016.���Metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, diabetes, and dyslipidemia are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. While excessive erythrocytosis is associated...

Three Hungarian researchers and three periods of the history and culture of the Albanian people

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Myrvete Dreshaj-Baliu

2016-01-01

The object of this study is the contribution of three Hungarian researchers: the publicist, the editor and the historian Windisch (Karl Go$ lieb von Windisch, 1725 -1793); the outstanding historian, medievalist, latinist and germanist Thalloczy (Ludwig von Thallóczy, 1857-1916); and the geographer and ethnographer of international dimensions Nopcsa (Baron Nopcsha 1877-1933). Their selection is not random; it refl ects the up to now development in the science of Albanology and our goal as rese...

Performance measurement in Juliusz Au's theory of agricultural accounting in 19th century Poland

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Turzyński, Mikołaj

2011-01-01

Before the Partitions, Poland, beside Russia, was the largest, territorially compact European state. As a result of the Partitions of Poland, which were carried out in 1772, 1793 and 1795, Polish territory was divided and annexed by the three partitioning powers: Russia, Germany and Prussia. In an attempt to resist aggressive Germanization by the invader, Poles employed, among others, the methods of “organic work” and “work at the grass roots” (a programme, launched by the Poli...

Wave Structures in Thermospheric Density from Satellite Electrostatic Triaxial Accelerometer Measurements.

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1987-06-04

Testud , J. (1970) Gravity waves generated diring magnetic substorms, .1. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 32:1793. .6 t9, "-€ according to their horizontal...auroral oval during polar substorms, J. Geophys. Res., 74:5721. 7. Testud , J. P., Amayenc, P., and Blanc, M. (1975) Middle and low latitude effects of...1730. 13. Bertin, F.J., Testud , J., Kersley, L., and Rees, P. R. (1978) The meteorological jet stream as a source of medium scale gravity waves in

(In) Famous Spirituality : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom

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Visser, I.

2008-01-01

After the Egyptian and the Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the

Placed on a Pedestal: Famous Faces in Clay

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Walkup, Nancy

2010-01-01

Artists have created portraits of people for thousands of years. In sculpture, a portrait of a person's face often includes the neck and part of the shoulders and chest. These artworks are called portrait busts. In this article, the author describes how her fifth-grade students created clay portrait busts on pedestal columns. The objectives are…

Comparison between Famous Game Engines and Eminent Games

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Prerna Mishra

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Nowadays game engines are imperative for building 3D applications and games. This is for the reason that the engines appreciably reduce resources for employing obligatory but intricate utilities. This paper elucidates about a game engine, popular games developed by these engines and its foremost elements. It portrays a number of special kinds of contemporary game developed by engines in the way of their aspects, procedure and deliberates their stipulations with comparison.

Neurological problems of famous musicians: the classical genre.

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Newmark, Jonathan

2009-08-01

Neurological histories of great musicians allow for a unique perspective on music physiology. Bedrich Smetana's autobiographical string quartet ends with the musical equivalent of tinnitus in the fourth movement, rendering the youthful and passionate themes of earlier movements moot as the piece ends depicting his ultimately fatal disease, neurosyphilis. Dmitri Shostakovich survived the censorship of Joseph Stalin's apparatchiks but suffered a prolonged form of paralysis attributable to slowly progressive motor neuron disease, although the viola sonata he wrote on his deathbed has become standard repertoire. Glenn Gould was a hypochondriacal pianist with obsessive-compulsive disorder and suspected Asperger syndrome. Vissarion Shebalin and (Ira) Randall Thompson had strokes followed by aphasia without amusia. Domenico Scarlatti provides an example of how even great composers must alter their technical expectations depending upon the skills and body habitus of their chief patrons. The focal dystonia afflicting Leon Fleisher and Gary Graffman catalyzed the discipline of performing arts medicine.

Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy

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Mariana M. Wolski

Full Text Available ABSTRACT Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Famous people with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome?

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Monaco, Francesco; Servo, Serena; Cavanna, Andrea Eugenio

2009-12-01

Virtually no neurologist nor psychiatrist today can be unaware of the diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS). Although the eponymous description by Dr. Georges Gilles de la Tourette was published in 1885, familiarity with this syndrome has been achieved only recently. In this article, the two most renown accounts of exceptional individuals retrospectively diagnosed with GTS are critically analyzed: British lexicographer Samuel Johnson and Austrian musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In both cases, clinical descriptions have been retrieved from written documents predating Gilles de la Tourette's original publication. The case for Samuel Johnson having GTS is strong, mainly based on Boswell's extensive biographical account. Johnson was reported to have a great range of tics and compulsions, including involuntary utterances, repetitive ejaculations, and echo-phenomena. On the other hand, there is circumstantial evidence that Mozart may have had hyperactivity, restlessness, sudden impulses, odd motor behaviors, echo/palilalia, love of nonsense words, and scatology, the latter being documented in autograph letters ("coprographia"). However, the evidence supporting the core features of GTS, i.e., motor and vocal tics, is rather inconsistent. Thus, GTS seems to be an implausible diagnosis in Mozart's medical history and completely unrelated to his undisputed musical genius.

Figures of equilibrium inside a gravitating ring and the limiting oblateness of elliptical galaxies

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Kondratyev, B. P.; Trubitsyna, N. G.; Kireeva, E. N.

2016-05-01

A new class of figures of equilibrium for a rotating gravitating fluid located inside a gravitating ring or torus is studied. These figures form a family of sequences of generalized oblate spheroids, in which there is for any value of the tidal parameter α in the interval 0 ≤ 0 ≤slant α /{π Gρ } ≤slant 0.1867 ≤ 0.1867 a sequence of spheroids with oblatenesses emin ( α) ≤ e ≤ e max ( α). A series of classicalMaclaurin spheroids from a sphere to a flat disk is obtained for α = 0. At intermediate values 0 isolated non-rotating galaxy is unstable, and it cannot be supported purely by anisotropy of the stellar velocity dispersion. A ring of dark matter can stabilize a weakly rotating galaxy, supplementing standard dynamical models for such stellar systems. In order for a galaxy to acquire appreciable oblateness, the mass of the ring must be an order of magnitude higher than the mass of the galaxy itself, consistent with the ratios of the masses of dark and baryonic matter in the Universe. The influence of massive external rings could shed light on the existence of galaxies with the critical oblateness E7.

Co-operation of the transcription factor hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 with Sp1 or Sp3 leads to transcriptional activation of the human haem oxygenase-1 gene promoter in a hepatoma cell line.

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Takahashi, Shigeru; Matsuura, Naomi; Kurokawa, Takako; Takahashi, Yuji; Miura, Takashi

2002-11-01

We reported previously that the 5'-flanking region (nucleotides -1976 to -1655) of the human haem oxygenase-1 ( hHO-1 ) gene enhances hHO-1 promoter activity in human hepatoma HepG2 cells, but not in HeLa cells [Takahashi, Takahashi, Ito, Nagano, Shibahara and Miura (1999) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1447, 231-235]. To define more precisely the regulatory elements involved, in the present study we have functionally dissected this region and localized the enhancer to a 50 bp fragment (-1793 to -1744). Site-direct mutagenesis analysis revealed that two regions were responsible for this enhancer activity, i.e. a hepatocyte nuclear factor-4 (HNF-4) homologous region and a GC box motif homologous region. Mutation in either region alone moderately decreased enhancer activity. However, mutations in both regions reduced promoter activity to the basal level. Electrophoretic mobility-shift assays demonstrated that the P5-2 fragment (-1793 to -1744) interacted with at least two nuclear factors, i.e. HNF-4 and Sp1/Sp3. Co-transfection experiments using Drosophila SL2 cells revealed that HNF-4 and Sp1/Sp3 synergistically stimulated the enhancer activity of the P5-2 fragment. These results indicate that co-operation of HNF-4 with Sp1 or Sp3 leads to the activation of hHO-1 gene expression in hepatoma cells.

Ommatius: synonyms, new record, redescription of Ommatius erythropus and description of the female of Ommatius trifidus (Diptera: Asilidae: Ommatiinae

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Sheila Lima

2017-10-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACT Ommatius erythropus Schiner, 1867 is redescribed and a lectotype is established. The female of Ommatius trifidus Vieira, Bravo & Rafael, 2010 is described and a new record is provided. Ommatius ruficaudus Curran, 1928 is established as a new synonym of Ommatius pulcher (Engel, 1885. An identification key is presented to the Ommatius costatus species group. A map with the geographic records is provided.

Sarajevo 1914: An Examination of the Context by which Austria Hungary Responded to the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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2014-04-01

disputes. Romania and Serbia were recognized as independent states in this Congress, but the agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina was a half-way house...Greece, and Romania together against Bulgaria. After fighting, peace was arranged and borders re-drawn without Austro-Hungarian input. Williamson...Monarchy 1848- 1918 . 2 vols. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1950. May, Arthur J. The Hapsburg Monarchy 1867-1914. Harvard University Press

El vigía de la costa: funcionario olvidado de la historia de Yucatán, siglos XVI al XIX

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Jorge Victoria Ojeda

2015-09-01

This article presents an official who worked on the beaches of Yucatan, whose presence in regional history goes from colonial to independent times (XVI century-1867. Its role had not been studied in Hispanic America. In this research we give you to know the legal and illegal affairs that the watchtower (vigía performed in his job and waht that employment had implied.

Ahmed Hilmi Pasha (1839-1905): A remarkable Ottoman physician and medical translator.

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Tekiner, Halil

2016-09-15

Besides being a founding member of the Ottoman Medical Society (est. 1867) and general director of the Imperial Military and Civil medical schools in Istanbul, Dr Ahmed Hilmi Pasha offered a pathology course for the first time in the Ottoman Empire. He also translated various medical textbooks from French, and he paved the way for using Turkish in Ottoman medical education. © The Author(s) 2016.

Callerebia dibangensis (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae, a new butterfly species from the eastern Himalaya, India

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P. Roy

2013-09-01

Full Text Available A new species of butterfly in the genus Callerebia (Butler, 1867 is described from the Upper Dibang Valley District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. A combination of very distinctive characters: large size; highly rounded wings; striking under hindwing white scales; distinctive under hindwing tornal ocelli; large round forewing orange apical spot and a dark brown under ground colour distinguishes this butterfly from any other Callerebia species.

Light emitting diodes with InAs/GaAsSb self-assembled quantum dot layer embedded in GaAs

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Hazdra, P.; Oswald, Jiří; Hospodková, Alice; Hulicius, Eduard; Pangrác, Jiří

2013-01-01

Roč. 543, Sept (2013), 83-87 ISSN 0040-6090 R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP102/10/1201; GA ČR GA202/09/0676 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100521 Keywords : quantum dots * electroluminescence * metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy * InAs * GaAsSb * light emitting diodes Subject RIV: BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

Activation of materials proposed for use in superconducting linac applications

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Hanson, A.L.; Snead, C.L.; Greene, G.A.; Chan, K.C.D.; Safa, H.

1998-01-01

Samples of construction materials proposed for use in both superconducting and conventional high-power linear accelerators have been activated with 800 and 2,000 MeV protons to study the decay characteristics of these activated materials. Irradiation times ranged from 10 minutes to 18.67 hours. The decay characteristics of these activated materials were measured and compared to calculated decay curves based on simplified assumptions

The effect of endocrine disruptors on reproductive parameters and expression of selected testicular genes in male mice in vivo

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Pěknicová, Jana; Elzeinová, Fatima; Žatecká, Eva; Děd, Lukáš; Dorosh, Andriy

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 20 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : endocrine disruptors * testicular gene * reproductive parameters * reproduction Subject RIV: DN - Health Impact of the Environment Quality

Mathieu Briancourt, Visite au phalanstère, 1848

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2017-01-01

Introduction par Florent Perrier Malgré plusieurs rééditions de sa Visite au Phalanstère, malgré sa traduction en allemand puis en anglais, avant 1850, rares sont les informations disponibles sur Mathieu Briancourt (1793-1882), ouvrier teinturier, sinon qu’il fut un inlassable propagateur du fouriérisme jusqu’aux années 1870, ne reniant jamais ses engagements premiers auxquels il consacra plusieurs ouvrages fameux, dont L’Organisation du travail et l’Association. Reprenant un mode de descript...

Pattern Recognition and Classification of Fatal Traffic Accidents in Israel A Neural Network Approach

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Prato, Carlo Giacomo; Gitelman, Victoria; Bekhor, Shlomo

2011-01-01

on 1,793 fatal traffic accidents occurred during the period between 2003 and 2006 and applies Kohonen and feed-forward back-propagation neural networks with the objective of extracting from the data typical patterns and relevant factors. Kohonen neural networks reveal five compelling accident patterns....... Feed-forward back-propagation neural networks indicate that sociodemographic characteristics of drivers and victims, accident location, and period of the day are extremely relevant factors. Accident patterns suggest that countermeasures are necessary for identified problems concerning mainly vulnerable...

Assesment of sperm quality using monoclonal antibodies and proteomic analysis

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Čapková, Jana; Kubátová, Alena; Margaryan, Hasmik; Pěknicová, Jana

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 28-28 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : human sperm * immunofluorescence test * human seminal plasma proteins * flow cytometry * proteomic analysis Subject RIV: EC - Immunology

The 4th Industrial Revolution and SMEs in Malaysia and Japan: Some Economic, Social and Ethical Considerations

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Peter, Luff

2017-01-01

As always in discussions of economic change, the choice of metaphors matters greatly. Today, two seem to be competing for our attention; the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Industry 4. 0 (In4. 0). In origin, the term Industrial Revolution is a borrowing from politics, specifically from events in France between 1789 and 1793, and is highly dramatic in tone; it implies a process of sudden, rapid, radical change, one that is extremely divisive socially; liberating in the eyes of its propo...

Adverse effect of tetracycline and doxycycline on reproductive tract development of CD1 mice

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Elzeinová, Fatima; Pěknicová, Jana; Děd, Lukáš; Dorosh, Andriy; Kubátová, Alena; Margaryan, Hasmik; Makovický, P.; Rajmon, R.

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 47-48 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : tetracycline * doxycycline * CD1 mice * reproduction Subject RIV: DN - Health Impact of the Environment Quality

Methods useful for evaluation of human sperm

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Kubátová, Alena; Čapková, Jana; Pěknicová, Jana

2012-01-01

Roč. 67, Issue Supplement s1 (2012), s. 27-27 ISSN 1046-7408. [13th International Symposium for Immunology of reproduction "From the roots to the tops of Reproductive Immunology". 22.06.2012-24.06.2012, Varna] R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA523/09/1793; GA ČR(CZ) GAP503/12/1834 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50520701 Keywords : human sperm * immunofluorescence test * human seminal plasma proteins * flow cytometry Subject RIV: EC - Immunology

40 CFR 86.1867-12 - Optional early CO2 credit programs.

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2010-07-01

... § 600.510-12(j)(2)(vii) of this chapter, without the use of the 0.15 multiplicative factor and with F...-12(j)(2)(vii) of this chapter, without the use of the 0.15 multiplicative factor and with F = 0. (F..., instead of production data. (B) The average carbon-related exhaust emissions for alcohol fueled model...

Climatic information of Western Sahel (1535-1793 AD) in original documentary sources

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Millán, V.; Rodrigo, F. S.

2014-09-01

The Sahel is the semi-arid transition zone between arid Sahara and humid tropical Africa, extending approximately 10-20° N from Mauritania in the West to Sudan in the East. The African continent, one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, is subject to frequent droughts and famine. One climate challenge research is to isolate those aspects of climate variability that are natural from those that are related to human influences. Therefore, the study of climatic conditions before mid-19th century, when anthropogenic influence was of minor importance, is very interesting. In this work the frequency of extreme events, such as droughts and floods, in Western Sahel from the 16th to 18th centuries is investigated using documentary data. Original manuscripts with historical chronicles from Walata and Nema (Mauritania), Timbuktu and Arawan (Mali), and Agadez (Niger) have been analyzed. Information on droughts, intense rainfall, storms and floods, as well as socioeconomic aspects (famines, pests, scarcity, prosperity) has been codified in an ordinal scale ranging from -2 (drought and famines) to +2 (floods) to obtain a numerical index of the annual rainfall in the region. Results show wet conditions in the 17th century, as well as dry conditions in the 18th century (interrupted by a short wet period in the 1730s decade).

Los buscones de metal. El sistema de pallaqueo en Huancavelica (1793-1820

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Povea Moreno, Isabel María

2012-06-01

Full Text Available This work analyzes the introduction and development of pallaqueo, a free-labor system in the mining of Huancavelica. By 1790, the set of policies introduced by the Spanish Crown to promote Huancavelica’s mining industry had failed. As a means of last resort, the Bourbon government allowed pallaqueo. With free labor mercury production increased slightly but soon it began to decrease and finally it stagnated at very low levels. The revival of the mining center required large investments from the colonial government and these never happened.El presente trabajo estudia la introducción y el desarrollo del sistema de libre trabajo en la minería de Huancavelica, también conocido como sistema de pallaqueo. A la altura de 1790, las medidas borbónicas encaminadas al estímulo de la industria minera huancavelicana no habían tenido éxito. Como último recurso se concedió el permiso general de pallaqueo. Con éste la producción se incrementó brevemente, pero pronto comenzó a decrecer y se situó en niveles muy bajos. La revitalización del centro minero precisaba de importantes inversiones que no tuvieron lugar.

Pliny the Elder on Greek Painting and its Most Important Representative, Apelles of Colophon

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Monika Osvald

2007-12-01

Since the Hellenistic Period, Apelles’ most famous picture has been Aphrodite Anadyomene (Aphrodite Rising from the Sea, for which Apelles used his mistress Pancaspe of Larissa as his model for Aphrodite; another legend has it that it was inspired by the famous hetaera, the courtesan Phryne of Athens. The only work that could be said to be more famous is the unfinished painting of Aphrodite of Kos, which was left unfinished due to the artist’s death.

Comparison of the Antimicrobial Effect of Chlorhexidine and Saline for Irrigating a Contaminated Open Fracture Model

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2012-12-01

bladder irrigation fluid,10 and periodontal rinse.11 Interestingly, despite its reputation as an effective antiseptic with low toxicity and its...treating compound fracture, abscess , and so forth; with observations on the conditions of suppuration. Lancet. 1867; 89:326, 357, 387, 507. 2. Browning...topical application of chlorhexidine on the development of dental plaque and gingivitis in man. J Periodontal Res. 1970;5:79–83. J Orthop Trauma

Deposition of PZT thin film onto copper-coated polymer films by mean of pulsed-DC and RF-reactive sputtering

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Suchaneck, G.; Labitzke, R.; Adolphi, B.; Jastrabík, Lubomír; Adámek, Petr; Drahokoupil, Jan; Hubička, Zdeněk; Kiselev, D.A.; Kholkin, A. L.; Gerlach, G.; Dejneka, Alexandr

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, č. 2 (2011), S241-S244 ISSN 0257-8972 R&D Projects: GA ČR GC202/09/J017; GA AV ČR KAN301370701; GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06002 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522 Keywords : pulsed DC reactive sputtering * RF reactive sputtering * complex oxide film deposition * polymer substrate Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

A History of the Savannah District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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1989-01-01

Moultrie, GA Moultrie Municipal Airport, Moultrie, GA Tifton Army Airfield, Tifton , GA Turner Field and Auxiliary Fields, Albany, GA Albany Municipal...Avenue,Savannah, GA ,31401 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM...Civil War, Gilmer moved to Savannah, Georgia, and from 1867 until his death in 1883, he was president of the Savannah Gas Light Company. His grave

Measurement of multilayer mirror reflectivity and stimulated emission in the XUV spectral region

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Keane, C.; Nam, C.H.; Meixler, L.; Milchberg, H.; Skinner, C.H.; Suckewer, S.; Voorhees, D.; Barbee, T.

1986-03-01

We present measurements of multilayer mirror reflectivity and stimulated emission in the XUV spectral region. A molybdenum-silicon multilayer mirror with 12% measured reflectivity at 182 A was found to produce a 120% enhancement of the C VI 182 A line (3 → 2 transition) in a strongly recombining plasma. No such enhancement of the CV 186.7 A line was seen, demonstrating amplification of stimulated emission at 182 A

The Shock and Vibration Digest. Volume 10, Number 12

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1978-12-01

programs Sho fArsae ah n ula nr. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman , OK, J. Mech. Des., The reflection of a plane sound wave from a thick, i.e., Trans. ASME, 100 (2...1534 P Perkins, J...............1166 Norman , C.D ............. 866 Penl, E .................. 532 Norris, D.M .............. 197 Perreira, N.D...1499, 1867, 1868 Shende, R.W............. 488 Smallwood , D.O ........ 62,1422 Srinivasan, M.G ............ 98 Shepherd, R ............ 1745 Smigielski

[Hering, Vintschgau and the problem of Purkinje's succession].

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Sablik, K

1989-01-01

The problem of Jan Evangelista Purkinje's succession will be presented according to the results of archival research. The Ministery of Cult and Education in Vienna, and especially Karl Rokitansky, who was the adviser for medical education, in 1867 created a new professorship and Institute for Physiology, beside Purkinje and his Institute. Maximilian Vintschgau was to assist the world-famous 80 years old Purkinje but was not permitted to teach the whole field of physiology and to examine students. The fact that the professors of the Prague Medical Faculty in 1868 started to remove the restrictions for Vintschgau with the argument of academic freedom and in 1869 tried to keep the second institute for the future, is not yet mentioned in the literature. Discussions about the problems of the Czech language and its use in physiological lectures were scarcely mentioned by the Ministery: if one day there should be a Czech-speaking lecturer, the problem would be solved. Unfortunately Purkinje had no genuine pupil in Prague, and after his death, Vintschgau was provisional director of the Institute for half a year. In this situation Rokitansky decided that there should only be one institute for physiology in Prague. The Medical Faculty wanted to have Hermann Helmholtz to succeed Purkinje, but Helmholtz refused to come. Ewald Hering, who was nominated in the second place by the Faculty, accepted the call. Vintschgau had only rank four, third was Conrad Eckhard from Giessen. The Ministery in Vienna, however, made a special decision: The Medical Faculty of Innsbruck was founded in 1869, and there was not professor for physiology at the beginning of 1870. The candidates of the Insbruck Medical Faculty were neglected in favour of Vintschgau, who was considered to be a trustworthy Austrian patriot. Hering and Vintschgau became professors on March 6, 1870, and Hering started his work in Prague in a new institute in the "Wenzelsbad".

"Should I Buy the Jerry's Famous Frozen Desserts' Chain?" Case Study [and] Case Study Update: Our Advice on Jerry's Famous Frozen Desserts.

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Finkle, Todd A.; And Others

1996-01-01

Offers a case study of a business plan in which the potential business owner examines the industry and the financial statements of the company he plans to purchase. A variety of experts give their perspectives on the situation and the authors provide a follow-up analysis. (JOW)

The Community of Rights

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Kjærgård, Jonas Ross

2012-01-01

be used in a particularistic and excluding way which was the case in the legislation of Maximilien de Robespierre’s Terror Regime. Situated somewhere between inclusion in and exclusion from the community of rights, the playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges sought to propagate an understanding...... of the natural that could better accommodate women and nonmarital children. Her attempts were futile, however, and in 1793 she was sentenced to death according to a newly written law meant to prosecute enemies of the Republic’s natural community....

Die Fußnote über Geognosia in Humboldts Florae Fribergensis specimen

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Herbert Pieper

2007-04-01

Full Text Available Article in German, Abstracts in English and GermanHumboldt distinguished between three disciplines dealing with the inquiring of the earth: geognosia, historia telluris, physiografia. In 1793, he used the notion of “Geognosie” for the first time. He explained the notion in a footnote that was reprinted in 1815, 1817, and again in 1845. The paper analyses the meaning attributed by Humboldt to the notion of “Geognosie” and gives a new German translation of the Latin texts of the footnote.

Una aproximación a la biblioteca del ilustrado valenciano Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745-1799)

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Bas Martín, Nicolás

1998-01-01

El presente estudio sobre la biblioteca del ilustrado valenciana Juan Bautista Muñoz (1745-1799) muestra las preocupaciones intelectuales que marcaron su trayectoria intelectual. Impulsor de la filosofía moderna en la Universidad de Valencia, fundador del Archivo General de Indias y autor de la Historia del Nuevo Mundo (1793), poseía una selecta y voluminosa biblioteca que contenía los libros más vanguardistas en las diversas disciplinas (filosofía, historia de América, religión, literatura, ...

Coordinated management of coastal hazard awareness and preparedness in the USVI

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Watlington, R. A.; Lewis, E.; Drost, D.

2014-04-01

As far back as history has been written in the islands today known as the US Virgin Islands (USVI), residents have had to endure and survive costly and deadly onslaughts from tropical storms such as the 1867 San Narciso Hurricane, Hurricane Hugo and Hurricane Marilyn. Keenly alerted by recent tragic events in the Indian Ocean in 2004, in Haiti in 2010 and in Japan in 2011, the USVI was reminded that it had suffered its greatest tsunami impact in a well-documented event that had followed the 1867 hurricane by fewer than three weeks. To address their community's continual vulnerability to coastal hazards, USVI emergency managers, scientists and educators, assisted by national and regional disaster management agencies and warning programs, have engaged programs for understanding, anticipating and mitigating these hazards. This paper focuses on how three public-serving institutions, the Virgin Islands Territorial Emergency Management Agency (VITEMA), the University of the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean Ocean Observing System have responded to the community's need for improved preparedness through programs of physical preparation, planning, research, observations, education and outreach. This report reviews some of the approaches and activities employed in the USVI in the hope of sharing their benefits with similarly vulnerable coastal communities.

Palaeomagnetic constraints on the age of Lomo Negro volcanic eruption (El Hierro, Canary Islands)

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Villasante-Marcos, Víctor; Pavón-Carrasco, Francisco Javier

2014-12-01

A palaeomagnetic study has been carried out in 29 cores drilled at six different sites from the volcanic products of Lomo Negro eruption (El Hierro, Canary Islands, Spain). Systematic thermal and alternating field demagnetization of the samples' natural remanent magnetization revealed a northward, stable palaeomagnetic direction similar in all the samples. Rock magnetic experiments indicate that this palaeomagnetic component is carried by a mixture of high-Ti and low-Ti titanomagnetite crystals typical of basaltic lithologies that have experienced a significant degree of oxyexsolution during subaerial cooling. The well constrained palaeomagnetic direction of Lomo Negro lavas was used to perform a palaeomagnetic dating of the volcanic event, using the SHA.DIF.14k global geomagnetic model restricted for the last 3000 yr. It can be unambiguously concluded that Lomo Negro eruption occurred well before the previously proposed date of 1793 AD, with three different age ranges being statistically possible during the last 3 ka: 115 BC-7 AD, 410-626 AD and 1499-1602 AD. The calibration of a previously published non-calibrated 14C dating suggests a XVI c. date for Lomo Negro eruption. This conclusion leaves open the possibility that the seismic crisis occurred at El Hierro in 1793 AD was related to an intrusive magmatic event that either did not reach the surface or either culminated in an unregistered submarine eruption similar to the one occurred in 2011-2012 at the southern off-shore ridge of the island.

The correspondance of Michael Faraday

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1991-01-01

The initial volume of the correspondence of Micahel Faraday (1791-1867), published in the year of the bicentenary of his birth, covers his early years up to his discovery of electromagnetic induction in 1831. Other scientific and technical topics covered include Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic rotations (in 1821), the liquefaction of gases (in 1823) and the long series of experiments in the latter part of the 1820s to improve optical glass.

Balancing the Stability-Activity Trade-Off by Fine-Tuning Dehalogenase Access Tunnels

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Liskova, V.; Bednář, D.; Prudníková, T.; Řezáčová, Pavlína; Koudeláková, T.; Šebestová, E.; Smatanová, I.K.; Brezovský, J.; Chaloupková, R.

2015-01-01

Roč. 7, č. 4 (2015), s. 648-659 ISSN 1867-3880 Grant - others:GA ČR(CZ) GAP207/12/0775; GA MŠk(CZ) LO1214; GA MŠk(CZ) LH14027; European Social Fund(XE) CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0037 Program:GA Institutional support: RVO:68378050 Keywords : alkanes * halogenation * molecular dynamics * enzyme catalysis * protein engineering Subject RIV: EB - Genetics ; Molecular Biology Impact factor: 4.724, year: 2015

Assessing the Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism Threat

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2005-12-01

Senate testimony, Dr. Craig Venter suggested that “outbreaks and spread of avian and other fl u virus strains . . . could potentially kill hundreds of...May 23, 2005. 36. Dr. Craig Venter, Testimony to Hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, “21st Century...International Studies. 241. Robert M. Cook- Deegan , “Issues in Biosecurity and Biosafety,” Science, Vol. 308, No. 5730, June 24, 2005, pp. 1867-1868

Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Aryl Sulfotransferases: Sulfation of Quercetin and Its Derivatives

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Purchartová, Kateřina; Valentová, Kateřina; Pelantová, Helena; Marhol, Petr; Cvačka, Josef; Havlíček, Libor; Křenková, Alena; Vavříková, Eva; Biedermann, David; Chambers, Christopher S.; Křen, Vladimír

2015-01-01

Roč. 7, č. 19 (2015), s. 3152-3162 ISSN 1867-3880 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GP14-14373P; GA MŠk(CZ) LD14096 Grant - others:Rada Programu interní podpory projektů mezinárodní spolupráce AV ČR(CZ) M200201204 Institutional support: RVO:61388971 ; RVO:61389030 ; RVO:61388963 Keywords : biotransformations * enzyme catalysis * flavonoids Subject RIV: CE - Biochemistry Impact factor: 4.724, year: 2015

How We Can Win the Long War: A New Interagency Approach to the GWOT

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2009-04-01

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe states, “Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” 17...Case for Strengthening the Department of State” 1 16 Schwarzkopf, Norman, “Famous Military Quotes”, 1 17 Goethe , Johan Wolfgang Van, Famous

Pictures to a story. Notes on Vita di San Filippo Neri at the Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa

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Federica Vettori

2014-12-01

Full Text Available During the eighteenth century the venetian publishing knows a flowering season thanks to the involvement of great artists in the field of illustration. Pietro Antonio Novelli was one of the most prolific inventors of decorations for illustrated books. He sketched the illustrations of Vita di San Filippo Neri engraved by Innocente Alessandri and printed in Venice in 1793. At the Museum of Bassano del Grappa we can find a special watercolored edition: sixty large prints that tell, as if they were history paintings, the life of the saint.

Åpent nummer om surrogati, bioetikk, forskningsetikk og minoriteter

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May Thorseth

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Dette nummeret av Etikk i praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics er kommet i stand i stafettpinneskiftet mellom avtroppende og påtroppende redaksjon. Vi byr på bidrag fra et variert utsnitt av det mangfoldige forskningsfeltet som omfattes av anvendt etikk. Tematisk er det bredde i utvalget, men felles for alle bidragene er at de drøfter svært relevante tema som også er til stede i offentlige medier.http://dx.doi.org/10.5324/eip.v7i2.1793

INVESTIGATING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPRINT AND JUMP PERFORMANCE WITH POWER PARAMETERS DURING PROPULSIVE PHASE OF FULL BACK SQUAT EXERCISE

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İbrahim; Hamit

2015-01-01

The basic purpose of this study was to investigate of the relationships with sprint and jump performance of power parameters during propulsive phase of full back squat exercise and to determine which variable was associated with which loading loading. For this purpose, thirty-two men amateur athletes (age: 20.4 ± 1.98 years; height: 179.3 ± 7.23 cm; weight: 73.5 ± 9.85 kg) who actively involved in sports and have a basic level of force participated in voluntarily to this study. In the study, ...

Effect of Core Training on Male Handball Players’ Throwing Velocity

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Manchado, Carmen; García-Ruiz, José; Cortell-Tormo, Juan M.; Tortosa Martínez, Juan

2017-01-01

Abstract In handball, throwing velocity is considered to be one of the essential factors in achieving the ultimate aim of scoring a goal. The objective of the present study was to analyze the effect of a core training program on throwing velocity in 30 handball players (age 18.7 ? 3.4 years, body height 179.3 ? 7.0 cm, body mass 78.9 ? 7.7 kg), 16 of whom were in the junior category and 14 of whom were in the senior category. The 30 players were randomly divided into two groups, the control g...

On 'Reinterpreting the famous train/embankment experiment of relativity'

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Mallinckrodt, A John

2004-01-01

Nelson contends that Einstein's train/embankment gedanken experiment is incomplete and inadequate to demonstrate the relativity of simultaneity. However, the contradictions he points to in support of this contention arise entirely from his attempt to perform an unnecessary reconciliation using a logically inconsistent framework. (letters and comments)

A World-Famous Scholar (In Memory of Natalia Bazhanova

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T V Zvereva

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Significance of the findings and scientific generalizations, which were made by the the leading Russian scientist of Korean Studies Natalia Bazhanova, goes far beyond the Korean issues. It is of great interest for both the expert community, and for a wide range of readers. Analysis of the political and economic development of the DPRK allowed Bazhanova highlight the characteristics of authoritarian regimes and non-market economy, and to see how they affect the foreign policy and international relations. Natalia Evgen'evna has made a great contribution to the development of historical science. She was the first who introduced into scientific use unique documents on the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953, allowing to understand the causes, course and consequences of the conflict. Bajanova proved itself as a political scientist, analyzing and forecasting the development of the international situation on the Korean Peninsula, making constructive proposals aimed at resolving the North Korean nuclear problem. The works of Bazhanova dedicated to Russian-Korean relations are very significant. Her conclusions on the current development of relations between our two countries are especially valuable, as well as on international multilateral cooperation in the matter of a Korean settlement. Natalia Evgen'evna was the author of monograph, publicistic books and papers devoted to the many countries of the world, including the United States, France, Italy, China. She put her exceptional talent to the study of these topics. The works of Bazhanova characterized by internal logic, depth and light, have “transparent” style of presentation.

'ah famous citie' : women, writing, and early modern London

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Wilcox - Boulton, Helen

2010-01-01

This article explores aspects of the textual relationship between women and early modern London by examining three verbal 'snapshots' of the city in works either written by women or focusing on women in their urban environment. The first text, Isabella Whitney's 'Wyll and Testament' (1573),

Famous problems of geometry and how to solve them

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Bold, Benjamin

1982-01-01

Amateur puzzlists as well as students of mathematics and geometry will relish this rare opportunity to match wits with Archimedes, Euclid, Newton, Descartes, and other great mathematicians. Each chapter explores an individual type of geometric challenge, with commentary and practice problems, and reveals a milestone in the development of mathematics. Solutions.

Notas sinonímicas sobre Hesperiidae neotropicais, com descrições de novos gêneros, espécies e subespécies (Lepidoptera

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Olaf H. H. Mielke

1990-01-01

Full Text Available Celaenorrhinus shema mercedensis, ssp. n. de La Mercede e Rio Colorado, Peru e Cochabamba, Bolívia; Phocides pialia intermedia, ssp. n. de Minas Gerais, Brasil; Corticea diamantina, sp. n. de Minas Gerais, Brasil; Artines tobiasi sp. n. de Minas Gerais, Brasil; Cymaenes albiventris albiventris, sp. n. do Maranhão, Brasil; Cymaenes albiventris capixaba, ssp. n. do Espirito Santo, Brasil; Papias cascatona, sp. n. de Minas Geras, Brasil; Lerema caraca, sp. n. de Minas Gerais e Espirito Santo, Brasil; Vettius ploetzii morretesi, ssp. n. do Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Propapias, gen. n., tipo: Rhinthon proximus Bell, 1934, única espécie incluída. Celaenorrhinus songoensis saroma Evans, 1952, comb. n.; Celaenorrhinus songoensis tonio Evans, 1952, comb. n. Lerema duroca duroca (Ploetz, 1883, comb. n. e sp. rev. Lerema duroca lenta Evans, 1955, stat. n. Eumesia eburones inornata (Bell, 1937, comb. n. e stat. n., Eprius veleda obrepta (Kivirikko, 1936, comb. n. e stat. n., Phocides zancleius 1932 syn. n. de Phocides pialia (Hewitson, 1857; Dalla eburones elna Evans, 1955 syn. n. de Eumesia eburones inornata (Bell, 1937; Staphylus holaphegges Dyar, 1913 syn. n. de Eprius veleda veleda (Godman, 1901; Eprius veleda palta Evans, 1955 syn. n. de Eprius veleda obrepta (Kivirikko, 1936; Lerema elgina Schaus, 1902 syn. n. de Lerema duroca duroca (Ploetz, 1883. Dalla Mabille, 1904 syn. n. de Eumesia Felder &. Felder, 1867, n. rev, Eumesiinae Felder & Felder, 1867, n. rev.Celaenorrhinus shema mercedensis, ssp. n. from La Merced and Rio Colorado, Peru, and Cochabamba, Bolívia; Phocides pialia intermedia, ssp. n. from Minas Gerais, Brazil; Corticea diamantina, sp. n. from Minas Gerais, Brazil; Artines tobiasi, sp. n. from Minas Gerais, Brazil; Cymaenes albiventris albiventris, sp. n. from Maranhão, Brazil; Cymaenes albiventris capixaba, ssp. n. from Espírito Santo, Brazil; Papias cascatona, sp. n. from Minas Gerais, Brazil; Lerema caraca, sp. n. from

Los precedentes franceses y estadounidense y su influencia en la rigidez constitucional de la Constitución española de 1812

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José Manuel Vera Santos

2012-01-01

Full Text Available El autor analiza en este artículo la influencia de la Constitución norteamericana de 1787 y de las tres Constituciones revolucionarias francesas (1791, 1793 y 1795 en la regulación que de la reforma constitucional prescribe el texto constitucional español de 1812. Dejando al margen matices, llega a la conclusión de que a la influencia francesa es mucho más elevada que la de los constituyentes de Filadelfia; b que la Constitución francesa de 1791 influye decisivamente en el texto gaditano en los ámbitos axiológico, institucional y normativo; c que la Constitución rosusseauniana de 1793 no sirve de modelo a nuestros liberales gaditanos, más propensos al pensamiento de Sieyès; d que la Constitución francesa de 1795 asume los postulados de la de 1791 y, por ende, pueden observarse ciertos paralelismos indirectos con la española de 1812. En lo concreto, la asunción de una iniciativa de reforma que debe aprobarse por tres legislaturas, siguiendo salvo excepciones el procedimiento fijado para la formación de la voluntad legislativa ordinaria; la concreción de la misma únicamente a la reforma parcial, no admitiendo la revisión total; la posible unión en el órgano revisor de poderes ordinarios y los propios de reforma, o la inexistencia de aprobación posterior por el pueblo llamado en referéndum, así como la exclusión del antes todopoderoso Monarca de todo el proceso de reforma, conforman una realidad difícil de negar: la Constitución de 1791 fue tenida como libro de cabecera por los redactores de la Constitución española de 1812. In this article the author analyses the influence of the Constitution of the United States of 1787 and the three French revolutionary constitutions (1791, 1793 and 1795 on the regulation of constitutional reform set forth in the Spanish Constitution of 1812. Certain details aside, the author concludes that a the French influence is much greater than that of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention

Associative (prosop)agnosia without (apparent) perceptual deficits: a case-study.

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Anaki, David; Kaufman, Yakir; Freedman, Morris; Moscovitch, Morris

2007-04-09

In associative agnosia early perceptual processing of faces or objects are considered to be intact, while the ability to access stored semantic information about the individual face or object is impaired. Recent claims, however, have asserted that associative agnosia is also characterized by deficits at the perceptual level, which are too subtle to be detected by current neuropsychological tests. Thus, the impaired identification of famous faces or common objects in associative agnosia stems from difficulties in extracting the minute perceptual details required to identify a face or an object. In the present study, we report the case of a patient DBO with a left occipital infarct, who shows impaired object and famous face recognition. Despite his disability, he exhibits a face inversion effect, and is able to select a famous face from among non-famous distractors. In addition, his performance is normal in an immediate and delayed recognition memory for faces, whose external features were deleted. His deficits in face recognition are apparent only when he is required to name a famous face, or select two faces from among a triad of famous figures based on their semantic relationships (a task which does not require access to names). The nature of his deficits in object perception and recognition are similar to his impairments in the face domain. This pattern of behavior supports the notion that apperceptive and associative agnosia reflect distinct and dissociated deficits, which result from damage to different stages of the face and object recognition process.

Goal-congruent default network activity facilitates cognitive control.

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Spreng, R Nathan; DuPre, Elizabeth; Selarka, Dhawal; Garcia, Juliana; Gojkovic, Stefan; Mildner, Judith; Luh, Wen-Ming; Turner, Gary R

2014-10-15

Substantial neuroimaging evidence suggests that spontaneous engagement of the default network impairs performance on tasks requiring executive control. We investigated whether this impairment depends on the congruence between executive control demands and internal mentation. We hypothesized that activation of the default network might enhance performance on an executive control task if control processes engage long-term memory representations that are supported by the default network. Using fMRI, we scanned 36 healthy young adult humans on a novel two-back task requiring working memory for famous and anonymous faces. In this task, participants (1) matched anonymous faces interleaved with anonymous face, (2) matched anonymous faces interleaved with a famous face, or (3) matched a famous faces interleaved with an anonymous face. As predicted, we observed a facilitation effect when matching famous faces, compared with anonymous faces. We also observed greater activation of the default network during these famous face-matching trials. The results suggest that activation of the default network can contribute to task performance during an externally directed executive control task. Our findings provide evidence that successful activation of the default network in a contextually relevant manner facilitates goal-directed cognition. Copyright © 2014 the authors 0270-6474/14/3414108-07$15.00/0.

Parasites of the flatfish Paralichthys adspersus (Steindachner, 1867 (Pleuronectiformes from northern Chile

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Marcelo E Oliva

1996-06-01

Full Text Available Three species of protistan and 22 species of metazoan parasites were obtained from a sample of 179 flatfish, (Paralichthys adspersus taken-off Antofagasta, northern Chile. Prevalence of infection of seven parasites (Protista: 1, Copepoda: 2, Digenea: 1, Acantocephala: 1, Nematoda: 2 was significantly and positively correlated with host size. Host's sex do not seem to affect prevalence of infection, except for Nybelinia surmenicola, Capillaria sp. and Anisakis sp. (prevalence of infection significantly greater in males than females and Philometra sp. (prevalence higher in females. Mean abundance is correlated with size in nine species (Protista: 1, Copepoda: 2, Digenea: 3, Acantocephala: 1, Nematoda: 2. Host's sex do not affect mean abundance, except for Cainocreadium sp. and Philometra sp.(mean abundance higher in females and Nybelinia surmenicola, Capillaria sp. and Anisakis sp. (mean abundance higher in males.

Transcriptome sequencing and characterization for the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka, 1867.

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Huixia Du

Full Text Available BACKGROUND: Sea cucumbers are a special group of marine invertebrates. They occupy a taxonomic position that is believed to be important for understanding the origin and evolution of deuterostomes. Some of them such as Apostichopus japonicus represent commercially important aquaculture species in Asian countries. Many efforts have been devoted to increasing the number of expressed sequence tags (ESTs for A. japonicus, but a comprehensive characterization of its transcriptome remains lacking. Here, we performed the large-scale transcriptome profiling and characterization by pyrosequencing diverse cDNA libraries from A. japonicus. RESULTS: In total, 1,061,078 reads were obtained by 454 sequencing of eight cDNA libraries representing different developmental stages and adult tissues in A. japonicus. These reads were assembled into 29,666 isotigs, which were further clustered into 21,071 isogroups. Nearly 40% of the isogroups showed significant matches to known proteins based on sequence similarity. Gene ontology (GO and KEGG pathway analyses recovered diverse biological functions and processes. Candidate genes that were potentially involved in aestivation were identified. Transcriptome comparison with the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus revealed similar patterns of GO term representation. In addition, 4,882 putative orthologous genes were identified, of which 202 were not present in the non-echinoderm organisms. More than 700 simple sequence repeats (SSRs and 54,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs were detected in the A. japonicus transcriptome. CONCLUSION: Pyrosequencing was proven to be efficient in rapidly identifying a large set of genes for the sea cucumber A. japonicus. Through the large-scale transcriptome sequencing as well as public EST data integration, we performed a comprehensive characterization of the A. japonicus transcriptome and identified candidate aestivation-related genes. A large number of potential genetic markers were also identified from the A. japonicus transcriptome. This transcriptome resource would lay an important foundation for future genetic or genomic studies on this species.

Serum Potassium Levels and Outcome in Acute Heart Failure (Data from the PROTECT and COACH Trials)

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Tromp, Jasper; ter Maaten, Jozine M.; Damman, Kevin; OConnor, Christopher M.; Metra, Marco; Dittrich, Howard C.; Ponikowski, Piot; Teerlink, John R.; Cotter, Gad; Davison, Beth; Cleland, John G. F.; Givertz, Michael M.; Bloomfield, Daniel M.; van der Wal, Martje H. L.; Jaarsma, Tiny

2017-01-01

Serum potassium is routinely measured at admission for acute heart failure (AHF), but information on association with clinical variables and prognosis is limited. Potassium measurements at admission were available in 1,867 patients with AHF in the original cohort of 2,033 patients included in the Patients Hospitalized with acute heart failure and Volume Overload to Assess Treatment Effect on Congestion and Renal FuncTion trial. Patients were grouped according to low potassium (amp;lt;3.5 mEq/...

The 1984 ARI Survey of Army Recruits: Tabular Description of NPS Army Reserve Accessions. Volume 2

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1986-05-01

12 PROB. 0.1867 I 186 T261 — NATCH TV PROG’NBA BASKETBALL NARK ONE LETTER FOR EACH OF THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS OR PROGRAMMING TYPES ON TV: NBA ...Major league baseball — regular seaaon games 105. Major league baaaball playoffs 106. World Series 107. NBA baaketball 106. College basketball 109...BASEBALL PLAYOFFS HATCH TV PROG:WORLD SERIES HATCH TV PROG:NBA BASKETBALL HATCH TV PROG:COLLEGE BASKETBALL HATCH TV PROG:NHL HOCKEY HATCH TV

Time-resolved plasma parameters in the HiPIMS discharge with Ti target in Ar/O2 atmosphere

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Čada, Martin; Hubička, Zdeněk; Adámek, Petr; Klusoň, Jan; Jastrabík, Lubomír

2011-01-01

Roč. 205, č. 2 (2011), S317-S321 ISSN 0257-8972 R&D Projects: GA ČR GP202/09/P159; GA AV ČR KJB100100805; GA MŠk(CZ) 1M06002; GA AV ČR KAN400720701; GA ČR GA202/09/0800 Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100522 Keywords : HiPIMS * Langmuir probe * ion flux * reactive sputtering Subject RIV: BH - Optics, Masers, Lasers Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2011

Effects on Setting, Strength, Moisture Resistance and Linear Changes of Sorel’s Cement on Mixing Portland Cement as an Additive

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Mathur, Ritu; Chandrawat, M. P. S.; Sharma, Sanjay K.

2009-01-01

Magnesium oxysulphate cement (MOC, Magnesia / Sorel’s Cement), discovered by Sorel S.T. in 1867 and has versatile cementing characteristics. It is prepared by the reaction of magnesium sulphate with magnesia in aqueous solution. Dolomite is used as inert filler to absorb the heat evolved during the exothermic formations of oxysulphate cement. Additives play an important role to modify the properties of Sorel’s cement by nullifying the harmful effects of the impurities present in the matrix...

Notas, novos registros e novas espécies da coleção de Cerambycidae (Coleoptera do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus

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Maria Helena M. Galileo

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Espécies novas descritas da Amazônia brasileira em Ibidionini: Compsibidion uniforme sp. nov. (Amazonas; Heterachthes rafaeli sp. nov. (Amazonas; em Apomecynini: Amphicnaeia lineolata sp. nov. (Pará; em Desmiphorini: Cotycicuiara magnifica sp. nov. (Amazonas. Novos registros e notas são apresentados para: Gnomidolon insulicola Bates, 1885 e G. lansbergei (Thomson, 1867 (Hexoplonini; Desmiphora (D. uniformis Galileo & Martins, 2003 (Desmiphorini; Omosarotes paradoxum (Tippmann, 1955 (Cyrtinini e Ozotroctes ogeri Tavakilian & Néouze, 2007 (Acanthoderini.

Jorge Isaacs en su tiempo...

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Arturo Laguado

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Full Text Available 1867 marca una fecha de importancia para la literatura sudamericana; en este año Jorge Isaacs publica la "María". Poco queda por agregar sobre esta novela, leída y releída por varias generaciones, incansablemente analizada por los críticos más autorizados de la literatura universal, pero existen ciertos aspectos anecdóticos, que pueden ayudarnos a conocer mejor las circunstancias que rodearon el nacimiento de la obra.

Building water bridges in air: Electrohydrodynamics of the floating water bridge

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Gomez Marin, Alvaro; Lohse, Detlef

2010-01-01

The interaction of electrical fields and liquids can lead to a phenomenon that defies intuition. Some famous examples can be found in electrohydrodynamics as Taylor cones, whipping jets, or noncoalescing drops. A less famous example is the floating water bridge: a slender thread of water held

Patterns of Semantic Memory Impairment in Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Sven Joubert

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Although the semantic memory impairment has been largely documented in Alzheimer's disease, little is known about semantic memory in the preclinical phase of the disease (Mild Cognitive Impairment. The purpose of this study was to document the nature of semantic breakdown using a battery of tests assessing different aspects of conceptual knowledge: knowledge about common objects, famous people and famous public events. Results indicate that all domains of semantic memory were impaired in MCI individuals but knowledge about famous people and famous events was affected to a greater extent than knowledge about objects. This pattern of results suggests that conceptual entities with distinctive and unique properties may be more prone to semantic breakdown in MCI. In summary, results of this study support the view that genuine semantic deficits are present in MCI. It could be useful to investigate the etiological outcome of patients failing or succeeding at such tests.

Parasitic copepods on Oligoplites spp. (Osteichthyes, Carangidae from the Brazilian coastal zone, with the redescription of Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson, 1908 (Siphonostomatoida, Tuxophoridae Copépodes parasitos de Oligoplites spp. (Osteichthyes, Carangidae da costa brasileira, com a redescrição de Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson, 1908 (Siphonostomatoida, Tuxophoridae

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Ricardo Massato Takemoto

2002-05-01

Full Text Available Four species of caligid copepods, parasites of Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1833, O. saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801 and O. saliens (Bloch, 1793 (Osteichthyes: Carangidae from the Sepetiba Bay, coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are presented. New geographical and host records for Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898, C. rufimaculatus Wilson, 1905, C. bonito Wilson, 1905 and Metacaligus rufus (Wilson, 1908 are given. Caligus oligoplitisi Carvalho, 1954 is considered a new junior synonym of C. robustus. Fishes of the genus Oligoplites are new host records for this species of copepod. Redescription and illustration of Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson, 1908, collected on the body surface of Oligoplites saliens, O. palometa and O. saurus, are provided.Quatro espécies de copépodes caligídeos, parasitos de Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1833, O. saurus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801 e O. saliens (Bloch, 1793 (Osteichthyes, Carangidae da Baia de Sepetiba, litoral do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, são descritos. São apresentados o registro de novo hospedeiro e nova distribuição geográfica para Caligus robustus Bassett-Smith, 1898, C. rufimaculatus Wilson, 1905, C. bonito Wilson, 1905 e Metacaligus rufus (Wilson, 1908. Caligus oligoplitisi Carvalho, 1954, é considerado novo sinônimo júnior de C. robustus. Tuxophorus caligodes Wilson, 1908, coletado na superfície do corpo de Oligoplites saliens, O. palometa e O. saurus é redescrito e ilustrado. Peixes do gênero Oligoplites são novos hospedeiros para estas espécies de copépodes.

Géneros y modernidad en la escultura española de fines del siglo XIX. Una aproximación a través de seis piezas del Prado depositadas en Canarias

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Carlos Reyero

2013-11-01

Full Text Available Se analiza un grupo deseis esculturas que pertenecen a las colecciones del Museo del Prado. Están depositadas en el Museo de Bellas Artes de Santa Cruz de Tenerife desde 1908. Estas piezas fueron expuestas en Madrid, poco después de esculpidas o modeladas por sus autores (Moratilla, Carretero, Menéndez Entrialgo, Cabrera, Ridaura y Coullaut-Valera, con motivo de las exposiciones nacionales celebradas en 1867, 1897, 1899 y 1901. A pesar de que la crítica contemporánea subrayó la importancia de los temas para valorarlas, este viejo punto de vista contribuyó a reflexionar sobre las modernas tendencias en la escultura española del siglo XIX.The object of analysis is a group of six sculptures that belongs to the Prado Museum Collections. They are deposited in the Fine Arts Museum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife from 1908. These pieces were exhibited in Madrid, soon after they were carved or modeled by their authors (Moratilla, Carretero, Menéndez Entrialgo, Cabrera, Ridaura y Coullaut-Valera, on the occasion of the national exhibitions celebrated in 1867, 1897, 1899 y 1901. In spite of contemporary criticism emphasized the importance of subjects in order to appraise them, this old point of view contributed to think over modern trends in nineteenth century spanish sculpture.

El frustrado proyecto de avance territorial del estado nacional entre 1869 y 1872: Frustrated territorial expansion of the national state between 1869 and 1872

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Silvia Ratto

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la coyuntura del período 1869-1872, cuando se intentó llevar a adelante la conquista militar del territorio indígena del sur prevista en la Ley 215 promulgada en 1867. El análisis propone una visión de conjunto sobre las discusiones que se llevaron a cabo en torno a su realización y la respuesta que provocó en los principales líderes étnicos. Integra dos sectores fronterizos sobre los que se proyectaba avanzar -la frontera sur de Córdoba, Mendoza y San Luis y la frontera bonaerense- y las agrupaciones nativas más cercanas a esos espacios: los ranqueles y los salineros dirigidos por el cacique Calfucurá.The aim of this paper is to analyze the context during 1869-1872 when the central government attempted to carry out the military conquest of the Southern Indian Territory established by Law 215, issued in 1867. An overview of the discussions taken place around war conduct and the resistance of ethnic leaders are presented. It integrates two main border areas on which the conquest was expected: the southern border of Córdoba, Mendoza and San Luis and Buenos Aires and the strategies of the indigenous groups closer to these spaces: the ranqueles and the salineros.

Acromegalic gigantism, physicians and body snatching. Past or present?

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W.W. de Herder (Wouter)

2012-01-01

textabstractThe skeletons of 2 famous acromegalic giants: Charles Byrne (1761-1783) and Henri Cot = Joseph Dusorc (1883-1912) and the embalmed body of the famous acromegalic giant Édouard Beaupré (1881-1904) all ended up in the medical collections of museums despite the fact that these patients had

Piketty’s Capital

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Larsen, Øjvind

2016-01-01

Piketty’s Capital in Twenty-First Century has posed a totally new platform for the discussion of the economy and capitalism. Piketty has reinvented the classical political economy founded by Adam Smith in his 1776 Wealth of Nations. Piketty has shown via massive historical research how growth...... and inequality have developed since 1793. Piketty’s conclusion is that the French Revolution did not change the existing inequality either in the medium or in the long term. Piketty’s prediction is that a new form of global capitalism will arise, patrimonial capitalism, in which inequality will develop further...

Time and the French revolution the Republican calendar, 1789-year XIV

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Shaw, Matthew

2011-01-01

The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but decimalised the hours of the day and dated the year from the beginning of the French Republic. This book not only provides a history of the calendar, but places it in the context of eighteenth-century time-consciousness, arguing that the French were adept at working within several systems of time-keeping, whether that of the Church, civil society, or the rhythms of the seasons.

Essential role for the putative S6 inner pore region in the activation gating of the human TRPA1 channel

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Benedikt, Jan; Samad, Abdul; Ettrich, Rüdiger; Teisinger, Jan; Vlachová, Viktorie

2009-01-01

Roč. 1793, č. 7 (2009), s. 1279-1288 ISSN 0167-4889 R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA305/06/0319; GA ČR GA305/09/0081; GA ČR(CZ) GA303/07/0915; GA AV ČR(CZ) IAA600110701; GA MŠk(CZ) 1M0517; GA MŠk(CZ) LC554 Grant - others:EC(XE) LSHM-CT-2007-037765; GA MŠk(CZ) LC06010 Program:LC Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z50110509; CEZ:AV0Z60870520 Keywords : TRPA1 * channel * vanilloid receptor Subject RIV: ED - Physiology Impact factor: 4.374, year: 2009

Ankara Vespidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera) Türleri Üzerine Faunistik Çalışmalar ve Ekolojik Gözlemler

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TÜZÜN, Ayla; KEKİLLİOĞLU, Aysel

2003-01-01

Bu araştırma, 1998-2001 yılları arasında Türkiye’nin başkenti Ankara ili civarında yapılan arazi çalışmaları sonucunda elde edilen 683 örneğe dayanmaktadır. Çalışma sonucunda 4 cinse ait (Vespa, Vespula, Dolichovespula, Polistes ) 9 tür ve 1 alt tür; Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771, Vespula (Paravespula) germanica (Fabricius, 1793), Vespula (Paravespula) vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758), Dolichovespula (Metavespula) slyvestris (Scopoli, 1763), Polistes (s.str.) gallicus (Linnaeus, 1767), Polistes (s...

El papel social de los sentimientos en la construcción de la identidad social de desmovilizados del conflicto armado colombiano

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López Arboleda, Gloria María

2010-01-01

Ubicación en Biblioteca USB Medellín (San Benito): CD-1793t .-- Grupo de Investigación en Estudios Clínicos y Sociales en Psicología - Línea de Investigacion: Psicología Social. La presente investigación está guiada por los postulados básicos del constructivismo, como paradigma de investigación (Guba y Linconl, 2000) cuya intención e interés son las realidades locales, contextuadas y específicamente construidas, como lo son la identidad y los sentimientos. En cuanto al muestreo, fue intenc...

[Jacques Clarion (1776-1844), professor of l'Ecole de pharmacie de Paris].

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Trépardoux, Francis

2006-11-01

Engaged in military campaigns from 1793 to 1797, he then studied medicine in Paris, as well as pharmacy, specialised in chemistry and botany. Supported by Deyeux and Corvisart, he was nominated as pharmacist of the emperor. From 1819 to 1844, he taught botany at the School of pharmacy of Paris. In 1823, the authority gave him a second chair for the medical botany at the Faculty of medicine, but after the 1830 revolution, he was dismissed. He mainly worked in taxonomy, contributing to several publications with Palisot and de Candolle for Graminaceae. He was a member of the academy of medicine.

Parasitic amoebae found in water bodies of Ukraine.

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Patsyuk, Marina

2017-12-01

Two parasitic amoebian species are found in mollusks of the water bodies of Ukraine. Vahlkampfia sp. is found in hepatopankreas of Unio conus Spengler, 1793, and Acanthamoeba sp. is observed in mantle cavity of Viviparus viviparus Linnaeus, 1758. For these protist species, the mollusks are shown to be intermediate hosts where amoebae feed and reproduce. An experimental infection with Vahlkampfia sp. and Acanthamoeba sp. was not successful, no pathological changes in mollusks were observed. These amoebae are successfully cultured in fresh water and agar medium, hence we can safely consider them free-living. Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Work-aged stroke survivors’ psychosocial challenges and follow-up needs. A qualitative exploratory study

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Martinsen, Randi

2014-01-01

Background Suffering a stroke in the age span between 18-67 years means being threatened by a serious illness during a productive phase of life. During this phase, people usually focus on education, launching a career and/or establishing a family, and the role commitments are many and demanding. Suffering a stroke during this phase of life might give rise to different psychosocial challenges and problems compared to suffering a stroke later in life. A number of psychosocial challenges h...

New records of petiolate potter wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae from Bhutan

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Tshering Nidup

2016-10-01

Full Text Available A total of seven species from five genera, Delta de Saussure, 1855, Eumenes Latreille, 1802, Pareumenes (de Saussure, 1855, Labus de Saussure, 1867, and Zethus Fabricius, 1804, belonging to the subfamily Eumeninae of the family Vespidae are documented. Pareumenes quadrispinosus acutus Liu, 1941, Delta esuriens (Fabricius, 1787, D. conoideum (Gmelin, 1790, E. gibbosus Nguyen, 2015, Labus pusillus van der Vecht, 1963 and Zethus dolosus Bingham, 1897, including the subspecies P. q. acutus Liu, 1941, are new records for Bhutan. 

Tankering Fuel: A Cost Saving Initiative

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2011-05-01

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FIRST RECORDS OF THE INVASIVE AMERICAN WASP ISODONTIA MEXICANA (HYMENOPTERA: SPHECIDAE) IN SERBIA

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Ćetković, Aleksandar; Čubrilović, Branka; Plećaš, Milan; Popović, Anđelka; Savić, Dragiša; Stanisavljević, Ljubiša

2012-01-01

The first verified occurrences of the invasive American sphecid wasp, Isodontia mexicana (Saussure, 1867), in Serbia are reported. It was first collected from a trap-nest sample in the northern surroundings of Belgrade in 2010. During 2012, we recorded well-established, abundant populations in the central city area of Belgrade, its surroundings, and also at a single site on the Fruška Gora Mt. We briefly review the circumstances and course of its recent eastward and northeastward spreading in...

Fisheries management in inland and coastal waters in Denmark from 1987 to 1999

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Rasmussen, Gorm; Geertz-Hansen, Peter

2001-01-01

Fishing is a major recreational activity in Denmark, involving both inland and coastal waters. Anglers, aged 18-67, and amateur fishermen, aged 12-67, must hold a valid fishing pen- nit. Fees are used for stocking, river restoration and fisheries research. All proposals for stocking inland waters...... for several generations. Stocking is also subject to genetic guidelines. This paper reviews the status of fisheries in Danish inland waters, their regulation, socio-economic aspects, stocking, aquaculture and the main problems and trends....

FENDL/D-2.0. Decay data library for fusion applications. Version 1 of June 1996. Summary documentation

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Pashchenko, A.B.; Wienke, H.

1997-01-01

The FENDL-2 sublibrary FENDL/D-2.0 contains decay properties (decay type, decay energy, half life) for 1867 nuclides and isomers. It is identical to the EAF-4.1 decay library and is therefore complementary to the activation cross section sublibrary FENDL/A-2.0. The data, in ENDF-6 format as well as processed into MCNP and REAC compatible formats, are available from the IAEA Nuclear Data Section online via INTERNET by FTP command, or on magnetic tape upon request. (author)

Ficción y realidad en Un drama nuevo de Manuel Tamayo y Bauss: hacia una nueva concepción del ser humano.

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Marián Sáiz Angulo

2008-09-01

Full Text Available Resumen: Ambientada en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII, Un Drama nuevo (1867 nos presenta al ya consagrado Shakespeare durante el estreno de la primera obra de un joven desconocido—el “drama nuevo”. Se da la casualidad de que cuando el gran actor cómico Yorick decide adoptar el rol de marido engañado para demostrar su talento, su propia esposa Alicia se encuentra enamorada de Edmundo, el joven actor protegido por su esposo, y que a su vez representan los papeles de esposa infiel y amante respectivamente. Otro de los personajes, Walton, resentido por no poder trabajar en la obra, intenta vengarse revelando a Yorick la infidelidad de su esposa. Por un lado, los papeles de los personajes-actores llegan a convertirse en reales, de manera que la ficción se introduce en la vida imponiéndose a ésta. Por otro, los sentimientos reales de los actores se superponen al papel que representan en la escena, de forma que la vida se sitúa por encima de lo ficticio. Este entrecruce entre el teatro y la vida revela la artificialidad de los límites entre las esferas del teatro y la realidad. La falsa dicotomía entre vida y ficción culmina con la muerte, la del joven Edmundo, que ha de ser entendida como el único final posible de la representación del papel que adopta el ser humano. Aunque ya antes se había explorado la naturaleza teatral de la vida, la presencia de la metaficción da a esta obra una significación que se presta a un análisis de la misma bajo una perspectiva moderna. En última instancia, el juego entre ilusión y realidad plantea un concepto de realidad que desmantela la concepción convencional del mundo. Summary: Situated in seventeenth-century England, Un drama nuevo (1867 shows us an already-famous Shakespeare during the premiere of the first work of an unknown playwright—the so-called “new drama.” Coincidentally, when the great comic actor Yorick decides to play the role of the cuckolded husband in order to demonstrate

ЗВУКОВА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ ПОЕТИЧНИХ ТВОРІВ СИДОРА ВОРОБКЕВИЧА ПЕРШОГО ПЕРІОДУ ТВОРЧОСТІ (1863-1867 / SOUND ORGANIZATION OF POETRY WORKS BY SYDIR VOROBKEVYCH OF THE FIRST PERIOD OF CREATIVITY (1863–1867

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Тетяна НИКИФОРУК

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Full Text Available Никифорук Татьяна. Звуковая организация поэтических произведений Сидора Воробкевича первого периода творчества (1863-1867. Аннотация. Цель исследования. В статье описаны фонические аспекты произведений С. Воробкевича (1863-1867 по изданию О. Маковея. Методы исследования: формальный, который часто базируется на основе использования статистики, количественной обработке материала; сравнительный; описательный; сопоставление для анализа, синтеза и обобщения научных теорий, а также методики литературоведческого наблюдения,классификации и систематизации. Научная новизна. Впервые системно представлены основные особенности фоники в поэзии С. Воробкевича указанного периода, определена специфика звуковой организации поэтических произведений писателя и высказана гипотеза про активное использование поэтом фоничных приемов. Выводы. В лирических произведениях этого периода засвидетельствованы такие фонические способы как аллитерация, ассонанс, звуконаследование, внутренняя рифма. Приведенные примеры указывают на количество и качество фонических компонентов. В �

Identity, gender, and the role of age of acquisition in face processing

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Andrew W. Ellis

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Two experiments examined the effects of age of acquisition (AoA and the gender of stimulus faces on familiarity decisions (Experiment 1 and gender decisions (Experiment 2 to the same set of famous and unfamiliar faces presented as whole faces, internal features or external features. In Experiment 1, familiarity decisions were faster to whole faces than to internal or external features. Famous faces with early AoA were recognised faster than later acquired faces, though the effect was only reliable for famous male faces, and for whole faces and internal features rather than for external features. In Experiment 2, gender decisions were made more rapidly to whole faces than to internal or external features. Classification was faster to famous than to unfamiliar faces when the faces were presented as internal features or external features, but not when they were presented as whole faces. More gender classification errors were made to famous than to unfamiliar male faces, but there was no effect of familiarity on the accuracy of responses to female faces. AoA had no effect on gender classification of whole faces or external features. Classification from internal features was faster for early than for late acquired male faces, but faster for late than for early female faces. In the light of the anomalous results for female faces, responses to male faces were analysed separately. The results for the male faces form the focus of the discussion.

Recognition of Famous Names in Psychology by Students and Staff.

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Bunnell, Julie K.

1992-01-01

Presents results of a name recognition questionnaire testing the historical awareness of psychology majors and faculty members. Reports that students showed a low level of name recognition prior to taking a course in the history of psychology. Concludes that explicit instruction is required to impart knowledge of the history of the discipline. (DK)

Ethno-philosophy is Rational: A Reply to Two Famous Critics ...

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In this article, I contend that philosophical reactions against ethno-philosophy, especially the arguments by professional African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji and Kwame Anthony Appiah, cannot go unchallenged at a time when Africa is facing a myriad of problems such as disease, famine, ethnic conflicts, ...

Apteekrisell Mardi kuulus leib = Apothecary Mart's Famous Bread / Anne Saare

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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

Comment on 'Reinterpreting the famous train/embankment experiment of relativity'

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Rowland, David R

2004-01-01

Nelson (2003 Eur. J. Phys. 24 379) recently claimed on logical grounds that Einstein's train and embankment thought experiment cannot be used to prove the relativity of simultaneity prior to knowledge of the Lorentz transformations as it is purported to do. It is argued in this comment that Nelson's claim is based on premises which are incorrect, thus invalidating his conclusions. It is also argued that Nelson's article furnishes a 'proof by contradiction' of the desired result, thus also invalidating his claim. (letters and comments)

CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE PROTECTION OF FAMOUS MARKS IN E-COMMERCE

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Georgeta Valeria Sabau

2013-09-01

Full Text Available Although the benefits of e-commerce are remarkable both for companies and for the consumers and the society, the context of the virtual revolution creates many opportunities to infringe the international and european legal provisions concerning the protection of trademarks. Globally, the protection of notorious trademarks is presently matchless and laborious enough so that the problematic in focus constitutes a long subject of analysis and discussion. The goals and the purpose of the research focus upon the analysis of the doctrine and jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice. Approaching these goals both logically and historically with international, european and judicial practice regulations, the authors concluded that these do not offer a clear answer to the question whether using the trademark of a competitor as a search engine keyword will constitute an infringement of the trademark, a fact that seems to be needing evaluation for each case.

An investigation on Iranian consumer behavior towards famous luxury brands

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Seyed Hamidreza Moteshakereh; Masoumeh sadat Abtahi; Ahmad Rahchamani

2013-01-01

During the past few years, there has been a growing trend on luxury good consumption among Iranian consumers. Many rich people change their mobile devices, purchase new expensive cars, etc. This paper investigates the effects of three factors including consumer perceived value, sensitivity to social norms and need for uniqueness on consumer’s intention to purchase luxury products based on the theory of planned behavior. The proposed study uses clustering technique and randomly chooses a sampl...

Positive emotion word use and longevity in famous deceased psychologists.

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Pressman, Sarah D; Cohen, Sheldon

2012-05-01

This study examined whether specific types of positive and negative emotional words used in the autobiographies of well-known deceased psychologists were associated with longevity. For each of the 88 psychologists, the percent of emotional words used in writing was calculated and categorized by valence (positive or negative) and arousal (activated [e.g., lively, anxious] or not activated [e.g., calm, drowsy]) based on existing emotion scales and models of emotion categorization. After controlling for sex, year of publication, health (based on disclosed illness in autobiography), native language, and year of birth, the use of more activated positive emotional words (e.g., lively, vigorous, attentive, humorous) was associated with increased longevity. Negative terms (e.g., angry, afraid, drowsy, sluggish) and unactivated positive terms (e.g., peaceful, calm) were not related to longevity. The association of activated positive emotions with longevity was also independent of words indicative of social integration, optimism, and the other affect/activation categories. Results indicate that in writing, not every type of emotion correlates with longevity and that there may be value to considering different categories beyond emotional valence in health relevant outcomes.

An investigation on Iranian consumer behavior towards famous luxury brands

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Seyed Hamidreza Moteshakereh

2013-08-01

Full Text Available During the past few years, there has been a growing trend on luxury good consumption among Iranian consumers. Many rich people change their mobile devices, purchase new expensive cars, etc. This paper investigates the effects of three factors including consumer perceived value, sensitivity to social norms and need for uniqueness on consumer’s intention to purchase luxury products based on the theory of planned behavior. The proposed study uses clustering technique and randomly chooses a sample of 250 rich people and distributes a questionnaire among them. The study uses structural equation modeling and the implementation of the proposed model has been executed using LISREL software package. The results indicate the all three factors, consumer perceived value, sensitivity to social norms and need for uniqueness, influence consumer intention to buy luxury goods. In addition, consumer knowledge is a mediator factor between need for uniqueness and purchase intention.

浦戸湾地域の開発と防災の歴史的変化

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松田, 誠祐; 玉井, 佐一; Seisuke, MATSUDA; Saichi, TAMAI; 高知大学農学部; 高知大学農学部; Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University; Faculty of Agriculture, Kochi University

1995-01-01

In this paper we took a general view on the subject of the historical changes of land reclamation and disaster prevention at the Urado Bay area in Kochi prefecture. All parts of the head area around the Urado Bay have been constructed by the land reclamation at Chosogabe(1592-1595) and Yamauti (1596-1867) era. At that era severe obligations of a bank control were imposed to farmers with a village headman as the central figure. Works of disaster prevention mainly were recovery from illness of ...

水の変幻 : シュティフター作品に現れた泉の考察

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大澤, 元

1994-01-01

“Die Feldquellen versiegen, die Waldquellen nicht”, legte Adalbert Stifter einer Figur seines Geschichtsromans “Witiko” (1867) in den Mund. Es läßt sich hieraus eine tiefe, hingebende Liebe zu seiner Heimat Böhmen und seinem Vaterland Österreich vermuten. Denn die Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans situiert sich genau mitten im Österreichisch-Preußischen Kriege, worin die Österreicher bei Königgrätz besiegt wurden. Die Antriebskraft zur Entstehung des Romans ist nicht nur auf diesen Krieg zurüc...

則天去私とは何か : 『高慢と偏見』、『ウェイクフィールドの牧師』、『明暗』

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佐藤,深雪

2015-01-01

The “sensation of reaction” is a concept proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). It is classified as Secondness. “Second is the conception of being relative to, the conception of reaction with, something else ” (Peirce 1891: 175). I propose a hypothesis that the pair of “Jikohoni” (self-centeredness) and “Sokutenkyoshi” (selfless devotion to justice), which was a lifelong key concept of NATSUME Sōseki (1867-1916), is deeply connected to “Sensation of reaction”. Sōseki said “Sokutenkyo...

Why Are We So Punitive? Some Observations on Recent Incarceration Trends

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Shelden, Randall G.

2004-01-01

In the early 19th century, the famous Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville spent a considerable amount of time touring America and writing about what he saw. He is, of course, most famous for his book Democracy in America (1961), but he also wrote, along with a fellow Frenchman Gustav de Beaumont, a book called On the Penitentiary System in the United…

Time and Space in W.A. Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus (1791)

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Petersen, Nils Holger

2015-01-01

A discussion and interpretation of Mozart's famous motet contextualised through historical considerations of music, theology and aesthetics inspired by K.E. Løgstrup's notion of the fictive space of a melody.......A discussion and interpretation of Mozart's famous motet contextualised through historical considerations of music, theology and aesthetics inspired by K.E. Løgstrup's notion of the fictive space of a melody....

Historical and cultural recreational and tourist resources of the Odessa region

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E. I. Nikolaeva

2016-11-01

Full Text Available The article substantiates that historical and cultural objects can be decisive in shaping the demand for recreational resources. The peculiarity of the tourist and excursion potential of the region is determined by numerous sights of different times (monuments of the Paleolithic and Neolithic age, ancient culture, culture of the Scythians and Sarmatians, other ancient peoples are concentrated here with famous historical and cultural reserves, architectural monuments and museums. These are the famous in the world Odessa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, the famous Potemkin Stairs, Ukrainian Venice - Vilkovo city, fortress of the XII-XV centuries. in Belgorod - Dnestrovsky, excavations of the ancient cities of Tire and Nikon, monuments of religious architecture in the cities of Odessa, Izmail, Reni, Kiliya and much more.

[The great mortality crises of 1793-1812: long-term effects in the Catalan population].

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Nadal I Oller, J

1990-01-01

The author investigates reasons for the low numbers of the Catalan population aged 16-25 in the early nineteenth century in Spain. Hypotheses considered include mass emigration of youth in that age group; extraordinarily high mortality during the period of the Napoleonic wars; immigration of persons aged over 25; and a decline in births during the period 1832-1841.

GROWTH AND EXPLOITATION STATUS (Channa striata Bloch, 1793 IN LUBUK LAMPAM FLOODPLAINS, SOUTH SUMATERA

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Zulkarnaen Fahmi

2013-06-01

Full Text Available Due to the economic importance of C. striata in Lubuk Lampam floodplains (Indonesia, this study is aimed to estimate the biological and population parameters required for proposing a future plan to sustain and manage this valuable fish resource. The growth, mortality and explotation ratio of Channa striata estimated by employing FiSATProgramme are reported. The parameters of Von Bertalanffy growth model of 1,529 sample fishes were estimated as K= 0.36/ year, L” = 72.98 cm and to = -0.52 year. The coefficients of total mortality (Z, natural mortality (M and fishing mortality (F were 1.72, 0.73 and 0.99 year-1 respectively. Relative yield per recruit analysis shows that the presentexploitation rate (E was 0.58. Yield per recruit can be maximized at the exploitation ratio of 0.5 and Lc/Linf values of 0.3. The Yield per recruit and biomass per recruit models indicated that, the fisheries status of C. striata in Lubuk Lampam floodplains exceed the limit reference point (Fmax, thus stock of this species in Lubuk Lampam floodplains is indicated being driving down.Reduction in fishing effort and increase number of selective fishing gears are suggested to sustain the fishery of Channa striata in Lubuk Lampam floodplains.

El recibimiento del Sello Real de Carlos IV en la Audiencia de Guatemala (1792: epítome y epígono de una tradición secular (The Reception of the Royal Seal of Charles IV of Spain in the Chancery Court of Guatemala, 1792: Epitome and Epigone of a Secular

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J. Jaime García Bernal

2015-03-01

Full Text Available Resumen: El presente artículo analiza el recibimiento del Sello Real de Carlos IV en la ciudad de Guatemala en las postrimerías del Antiguo Régimen. Nos hemos basado en la Breve Relación (1793 que compuso el fraile dominico Carlos Cadena de la que examinamos sus códigos retóricos e ideológicos. Y en la documentación expedida por la Audiencia de Guatemala que se conserva en el Archivo General de Centroamérica. En primer lugar estudiamos los antecedentes de esta ceremonia en otras ciudades americanas a partir de las descripciones publicadas hasta ahora. En la segunda parte, nos detenemos en el estudio del programa decorativo de la entrada del sello en Guatemala. Posteriormente examinamos las funciones de ingreso, manifestación pública y juramento de la insignia real.Abstract: This article studies the reception of the Royal Seal of Carlos IV in the city of Guatemala in the late eighteenth century. It is based on the Breve Relación written by Dominican father Carlos Cadena (1793. We explore the rhetorical and ideological keys of this original text. We also have used the inform send by the district court of Guatemala that has been kept on the General Archive of Central America. The paper distinguished three phases. In the first part, we explore the forgoing records of this ceremony in others American cities starting from the sixteenth century. In the second part, we focus on the study of the “ephemeral” decorative program. Finally we emphasized the ceremony of the entry, public exhibition and civic oath of the Royal sign.

Between Nationalism and Internationalism: The German Chemical Society In Comparative Perspective, 1867-1945.

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Johnson, Jeffrey Allan

2017-09-04

One-hundred fifty years ago, on the eve of German unification, about one-hundred people gathered in Berlin to found the German Chemical Society (DChG) under the charismatic leadership of August Wilhelm von Hofmann, who attracted a large international membership by promoting modern organic chemistry. By 1892, when Emil Fischer succeeded Hofmann, the DChG was the world's largest chemical society. Under Fischer the Society promoted international collaboration with foreign societies, and in 1900 it opened an impressive headquarters, the Hofmann House, where it centralized its greatly expanded literary activity including abstracts and reference publications. Yet a half-century later, after war and racial-national extremism, the house lay in ruins and the Society had ceased to exist. In remembering the Society, one may well ask why its auspicious beginning should have led to this ignominious end. © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Tradition and Culture Change in the Oklahoma Delaware Big House Community: 1867-1924.

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1981-01-01

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Radioactive minerals - Multimedias strategies for their divulgation

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Cabral, João; Gomes, Ana; Aldano, Ana; Fonseca, Pedro; Cabral, Tiago; Nobre, José

2014-05-01

The region corresponding to Sortelha-Penalobo - Bendada, located deep in the transition zone between the Hesperian massif and the Cova da Beira in the central part of Portugal, more specifically in the Mountainous region of the province of Beira Alta, county Sabugal. This region is characterized by great mineral wealth combined with geomorphology of recognized landscape value. Under the scientific point of view, this region is the origin of the mineral sabugalite (HAl(UO2)4(PO4)4.16H2O) that was described by the famous American mineralogist Clifford Frondel (1907-2002) in the fifties of the 20th century. Uranium minerals of Sabugal region were also associated with the radioactivity studies made by the well-known French physicist Marie Curie (1867-1934). In 2007, U. Kolitsch et al described the Bendadaite (Fe (AsO4) 2 (OH) 2 • 4H2O), which corresponds to a new mineral from the group arthurite. The mineral wealth of this region is responsible for a rich history of mining and to highlight the importance until the 1990s the extraction of uranium minerals. The main uranium minerals extracted were the tobernite (Cu (UO2) 2 (PO4) 2 • 12 H2O), the metatobernite (Cu (UO2) 2 (PO4) 2 • 8 H 2 O), the autonite (Ca (UO2) 2 (PO4 ) 2 • 12H2O-10) and sabugalite (HAL (UO2) 4 (PO4) 4 16H2O). Due to the high radioactivity of these minerals, their handling becomes infeasible for disclosure purposes. An integrated and multidisciplinary museological strategy aims to access 3D images by QR codes, using multitouch as the primary means of interaction with the user, and can handle even the virtual samples, access various magnifications and enjoy explanations supplied by a mascot, in a fun way. All this framework and geological environment becomes an asset for the scientific, educational and economic development of the region. On the other hand, it has a vital importance in the context of a strategy of forming a geological park, in the point of view of tourism, research and

Quitones (Mollusca: Polyplacophora de El Salvador, América Central

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Cedar I García-Ríos

2007-03-01

Full Text Available En El Salvador se habían registrado los poliplacóforos Chaetopleura lurida (Sowerby, 1832; Ischnochiton guatemalensis (Thiele, 1910; Ceratozona angusta (Thiele, 1909; Chiton stokesii (Broderip, 1832 y Acantochitona exquisita (Pilsbry, 1893. Recolectamos quitones en aguas someras de El Salvador en julio del 2002, agragando a la lista a Lepidochitona beanii (Carpenter, 1857; Ischnochiton dispar (Sowerby, 1832; Stenoplax limaciformis (Sowerby, 1832; Callistochiton expressus (Carpenter, 1865; Acanthochitona arragonites (Carpenter, 1867; Acanthochitona ferreirai (Lyons, 1988 y Acanthochitona hirudiniformis (Sowerby, 1832. Ampliamos la distribución documentada de I. dispar hacia el norte y describimos brevemente una especie innominada de Lepidochitona.Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora from El Salvador, Central America. Collections of 11 species of shallow water Polyplacophora from El Salvador were made in July 2002. Previously only five species had been documented in El Salvador: Chaetopleura lurida (Sowerby, 1832; Ischnochiton guatemalensis (Thiele, 1910; Ceratozona angusta (Thiele, 1909; Chiton stokesii (Broderip, 1832 and Acantochitona exquisita (Pilsbry, 1893. Of these, I. guatemalensis and A. exquisita were not collected in this census. Seven other species are reported here for El Salvador for the first time: Lepidochitona beanii (Carpenter, 1857; Ischnochiton dispar (Sowerby, 1832; Stenoplax limaciformis (Sowerby, 1832; Callistochiton expressus (Carpenter, 1865; Acanthochitona arragonites (Carpenter, 1867; A. ferreirai (Lyons, 1988 and A. hirudiniformis (Sowerby, 1832. The known geographic distribution of I. dispar is extended to the north. An un-named species of Lepidochitona is briefly described. Rev. Biol. Trop. 55 (1: 171-176. Epub 2007 March. 31.

Toxic effects of oral 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene in the Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

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2011-02-15

The compound 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT) was evaluated under laboratory conditions in the Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) to assess the potential for reptile toxicity. Oral LD{sub 50} values were 1406 and 1867 mg/kg for male and female lizards, respectively. Based on responses from a 14-day subacute study, a 60-day subchronic experiment followed where lizards were orally dosed at 0, 5, 15, 20, 25, 30 mg/kg-d. At day 60, number of days and survivors, food consumption, and change in body weight were inversely related to dose. Signs of toxicity were characterized by anorexia and generalized cachexia. Significant adverse histopathology was observed in hepatic tissue at {>=}15 mg/kg-d, consistent with hepatocellular transdifferentiation. Based on survival, loss of body weight, diminished food intake, changes in liver, kidney, and testes, and increased blood urea nitrogen, these data suggest a LOAEL of 15 mg/kg-d and a NOAEL of 5 mg/kg-d in S. occidentalis. - Research highlights: Oral LD{sub 50} (mg/kg) values were 1406 for male and 1867 for female lizards. Dose-dependent hepatocellular transdifferentiation was observed at {>=}5 mg/kg-d. Chromaturia in 2A-DNT and the parent TNT suggest biomarkers of exposure and effect. Health effects of metabolites support comprehensive ecological risk assessments. - The Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a suitable reptile model for assessing the toxicity of energetic compounds and their metabolites.

Toxic effects of oral 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene in the Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis)

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McFarland, Craig A.; Quinn, Michael J.; Boyce, John; LaFiandra, Emily M.; Bazar, Matthew A.; Talent, Larry G.; Johnson, Mark S.

2011-01-01

The compound 2-amino-4,6-dinitrotoluene (2A-DNT) was evaluated under laboratory conditions in the Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) to assess the potential for reptile toxicity. Oral LD 50 values were 1406 and 1867 mg/kg for male and female lizards, respectively. Based on responses from a 14-day subacute study, a 60-day subchronic experiment followed where lizards were orally dosed at 0, 5, 15, 20, 25, 30 mg/kg-d. At day 60, number of days and survivors, food consumption, and change in body weight were inversely related to dose. Signs of toxicity were characterized by anorexia and generalized cachexia. Significant adverse histopathology was observed in hepatic tissue at ≥15 mg/kg-d, consistent with hepatocellular transdifferentiation. Based on survival, loss of body weight, diminished food intake, changes in liver, kidney, and testes, and increased blood urea nitrogen, these data suggest a LOAEL of 15 mg/kg-d and a NOAEL of 5 mg/kg-d in S. occidentalis. - Research highlights: → Oral LD 50 (mg/kg) values were 1406 for male and 1867 for female lizards. → Dose-dependent hepatocellular transdifferentiation was observed at ≥5 mg/kg-d. → Chromaturia in 2A-DNT and the parent TNT suggest biomarkers of exposure and effect. → Health effects of metabolites support comprehensive ecological risk assessments. - The Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) is a suitable reptile model for assessing the toxicity of energetic compounds and their metabolites.

Charlotte de Belgique, impératrice du Mexique. Une plongée dans les ténèbres de la folie. Essai de reconstitution fictionnelle

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André Bénit

2017-11-01

Full Text Available 150 years ago, in June 1867, the execution of Maximilian of Habsburg by Benito Juarez’s men marked the end of the Second Mexican Empire. One year earlier, the Empress Carlota had returned to Europe to request from Napoleon III that he maintain his troops in Mexico and from Pope Pius IX that he sign a concordat to save the Empire, but to no avail. With these setbacks, Carlota’s mental breakdown became increasingly obvious and noto- rious… In these pages, we recount the Belgian princess’s progressive descent into madness as told by novelists in French language. A tragic fairy tale… Il y a 150 ans, en juin 1867, l’exécution de Maximilien de Habsbourgar les hommes de Benito Juarez mettait fin au Second Empire mexicain. Un an avant, l’impératrice Charlotte de Belgique était rentrée en Europe pour prier Napoléon III de maintenir ses troupes au Mexique et le pape Pie IX de signer un concordat dans le but de sauver leur empire. En vain. Suite à ces échecs, la santé mentale de Charlotte se détériora indiscutablement... Dans ces pages, nous tentons de relater la progressive plongée de la princesse belge dans les ténèbres de la folie ainsi que la racontent les romanciers/romancières en langue fran- çaise. Un conte de fées tragique...

Characteristics of the first recorded spider (Arthropoda: Arachnida fauna from Sheringal, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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Farzana Khan Perveen

2015-12-01

Full Text Available The spiders (order: Aranae are an important environmental indicator and play a significant role as predators in biological control of the most of the key insect pests. The present study was conducted to establish the characteristics of the first recorded spider fauna from Sheringal, Dir Upper (DU, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP, Pakistan during June 2013-July 2014. Their 10 species belong to 7 families, and 10 genera (nt=123: total; ni=77: identified; nui=46: unidentified were recorded in the 6 quadrates, i.e., Daramdala, Doki, Guryaal, Samang, Shahoor and Sia-Sheringal of Sheringal. The largest family was Lycosidae (wolf spiders with respect to size and numbers of specimens collected (n=20, which contained Arctosa littorali Simon, 1897; Hippasa partita Takidar, 1970; Pardosa distincta Backwall, 1867, while the smallest family was Gnphosidae (ground spiders (n=3 with Gnaphosa eucalyptus Ghafoor and Beg, 2002; while other families Sparassidae (huntsman spiders (n=19 Halconia insignis Thorell, 1836, and Isopeda tuhogniga Barrion and Litsinger, 1995, Opilionidae (harvestmen spiders (n=12 Hadrobunus grandis Sundevall, 1833; Pholcidae (cellar spider (n=10 have Crossopriza lyoni Blackwall, 1867; Hersiliidae (two-tailed spiders (n=6 is having Harsilia savignyi Lucas, 1836; (n=5 with Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757 were recorded. It was concluded that 50% of the spiders collected from the study area were venomous. A detail study is required for further exploration of spider fauna of Sheringal, KP, Pakistan with special reference to their taxonomical, physiological and ecological characteristics.

Evolution of knowledge of electricity and electrotherapeutics with special reference to x -rays and cancer

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Mould, R. F.; Aronowitz, J. N.

2007-01-01

The first part of this article recounting the history of electricity and electrotherapeutics closed with contribution of Charles Coulomb (1736-1806), Lurgi Galvani (1737-1798), Pierre Bertholon (1742-1800) and Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793). This second installment continues chronologically with the story with Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) and ends with Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) and James Cleark Maxwell (1831-1879). The concluding part (to be published in 'Nowotwory' 2/2007), commences with Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) and closes with the electrotherapeutics of the early 20 th century. By then, X-ray therapy and radium brachytherapy had replaced electrotherapy as the alternative to surgery in the treatment of cancer. (author)

The Marine Physical Laboratory Multi-Disciplinary Ocean Science and Technology Program

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1989-10-01

1793 INTRODUCTION Two specific objectives were planned for the next year: an updating and completion of a world-wide catalog of fish sounds, and a...separated rhe walls of Cauldron (’rater consist of nearly vertical cliffs by younger ponds of cream colored calcareous ooze. The out- (black in Figure 2h...2 SiO2 49.78 50.02 5014 50.60 50.14 49.84 50.00 50.54 49.95 48.83 51.83 TiO2 1.07 1.13 1.12 1.23 1.13 1.10 1.09 1.02 1.76 1.75 1.38 A12 0 3 16.15

Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponini feeding on stinkhorn spores (Fungi, Phallales: robbery or dispersal?

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Marcio L. Oliveira

2000-09-01

Full Text Available Records about stingless bee-fungi interaction are very rare. In Brazilian Amazonia, workers of Trigona crassipes (Fabricius, 1793 and Trigona fulviventris Guérin, 1835 visiting two stinkhorn species, Dictyophora sp. and Phallus sp., respectively, were observed. The workers licked the fungi gleba, a mucilaginous mass of spores covering the pileum. Neither gleba residue nor spores were found on the body surface of these bee workers. These observations indicate that these bee species include spores as a complement in their diet. On the other hand, they also suggest that these stingless bees can, at times, facilitale spore dispersal, in case intact spores are eliminated with the feces.

Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic evidence for the interaction between semantic and episodic memory in healthy elderly subjects.

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La Corte, Valentina; Dalla Barba, Gianfranco; Lemaréchal, Jean-Didier; Garnero, Line; George, Nathalie

2012-10-01

The relationship between episodic and semantic memory systems has long been debated. Some authors argue that episodic memory is contingent on semantic memory (Tulving 1984), while others postulate that both systems are independent since they can be selectively damaged (Squire 1987). The interaction between these memory systems is particularly important in the elderly, since the dissociation of episodic and semantic memory defects characterize different aging-related pathologies. Here, we investigated the interaction between semantic knowledge and episodic memory processes associated with faces in elderly subjects using an experimental paradigm where the semantic encoding of famous and unknown faces was compared to their episodic recognition. Results showed that the level of semantic awareness of items affected the recognition of those items in the episodic memory task. Event-related magnetic fields confirmed this interaction between episodic and semantic memory: ERFs related to the old/new effect during the episodic task were markedly different for famous and unknown faces. The old/new effect for famous faces involved sustained activities maximal over right temporal sensors, showing a spatio-temporal pattern partly similar to that found for famous versus unknown faces during the semantic task. By contrast, an old/new effect for unknown faces was observed on left parieto-occipital sensors. These findings suggest that the episodic memory for famous faces activated the retrieval of stored semantic information, whereas it was based on items' perceptual features for unknown faces. Overall, our results show that semantic information interfered markedly with episodic memory processes and suggested that the neural substrates of these two memory systems overlap.

Value-chain analysis of freshwater apple snail (Pila globosa used for on-farm feeds in the freshwater prawn farming sector in Bangladesh

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2013-12-01

Full Text Available Growth of the freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii sector in Bangladesh since 1970s has been supported by natural availability of freshwater apple snail (Pila globosa, used for on-farm prawn feeds. The present study identified the current configuration of the value-chain benefits and constraints of freshwater apple snail in south-western Bangladesh in August 2011, based upon Rapid Market Appraisal (RMA approach. The site of snail collection was Chanda Beel in Gopalganj district, while trading, processing and final consumption was represented by Rayer Mahal Bazar in Khulna district. There were seven different nodes recognized throughout the value chain. Snail marketing was identified as a seasonal business and took place during June to November each year. Between 1995 and 2011 the price of whole snail, meat and shell has increased by 800%, 325% and 315%, respectively. The abundance of snail had been reduced and its demand has increased due to the expansion of the prawn farming industry. Prawn farmers preferred snail meat due to its’ low cost (US$ 0.21 kg-1 as a source of protein compared to commercial prawn feed (US$ 0.41 kg-1. Snail harvesting and processing were considered as additional livelihood options for the poor, where 60% of the labour involved in snail harvesting were women, and 95% the de-shelling workforce. Induced breeding in captivity and sustainable management in nature as well as development of commercial production of apple snails might reduce the pressure on ecosystems and positively contributed to the continued expansion of freshwater prawn farming in Bangladesh.

Historical evolution of ideas on eclampsia/preeclampsia: A proposed optimistic view of preeclampsia.

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Robillard, Pierre-Yves; Dekker, Gustaaf; Chaouat, Gérard; Scioscia, Marco; Iacobelli, Silvia; Hulsey, Thomas C

2017-09-01

Eclampsia (together with epilepsy) being the first disease ever written down since the beginning of writings in mankind 5000 years ago, we will make a brief presentation of the different major steps in comprehension of Pre-eclampsia. 1) 1840. Rayer, description of proteinuria in eclampsia, 2) 1897 Vaquez, discovery of gestational hypertension in eclamptic women, 3) In the 1970's, description of the "double" trophoblastic invasion existing only in humans (Brosens & Pijnenborg,), 4) between the 1970's and the 1990's, description of preeclampsia being a couple disease. The "paternity problem" (and therefore irruption of immunology), 5) at the end of the 1980's, a major step forward: Preeclampsia being a global endothelial cell disease (glomeruloendotheliosis, hepatic or cerebral endotheliosis, HELLP, eclampsia), inflammation (J.Roberts.C Redman, R Taylor), 6) End of the 1990's: Consensus for a distinction between early onset preeclampsia EOP and late onset LOP (34 weeks gestation), EOP being rather a problem of implantation of the trophoblast (and the placenta), LOP being rather a pre-existing maternal problem (obesity, diabetes, coagulopathies etc…). LOP is predominant everywhere on this planet, but enormously predominant in developed countries: 90% of cases. This feature is very different in countries where women have their first child very young (88% of world births), where the fatal EOP (early onset) occurs in more than 30% of cases. 7) What could be the common factor which could explain the maternal global endotheliosis in EOP and LOP? Discussion about the inositol phospho glycans P type. Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Photonics4All Crossword: Light Scientist

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Dr. Adam, Aurèle

2015-01-01

Photonics4All developed the quiz “The Optics Scientist“. It tests our knowledge regarding famous people in optics & photonics. 14 famous scientists you should know, if you consider yourself a photoncis experts, are presented! For instance: Do you know the Dutch scientist who lived in Delft and invented the microscope? …find our more & test yourself, your friends, co-workers, students or family members!

Die Asta and the Avant-Garde

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Thomsen, Bodil Marie Stavning

2013-01-01

The Danish film actress, Asta Nielsen, who became the first world famous film star after her success with The Abyss (1910), had a remarcable influence on what became the European avant-garde.......The Danish film actress, Asta Nielsen, who became the first world famous film star after her success with The Abyss (1910), had a remarcable influence on what became the European avant-garde....

Paul Ehrenfest

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Broda, E.

1982-01-01

This is a short biography about Paul Ehrenfest, a famous austrian physicist and student of Ludwig Boltzmann. Ehrenfest contributed important work to thermodynamics and quantum mechanics (a.o. adiabatic invariants, and the Ehrenfest theorem). Broda describes not only his scientific research but also his interaction and relation to other famous physicist of his time, like Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein and others. (nowak)

El castigo como práctica de gobierno en la Reforma Instruccionista en Antioquia

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Arley Fabio Ossa

2010-01-01

En el presente artículo describo discontinuidades y condiciones de existencia y emergencia del castigo en el campo de la instrucción pública en los Estados Unidos de Colombia, en el caso específico del Estado Soberano de Antioquia de 1867-1880. El escrito en una perspectiva genealógica que no descarta las herramientas arqueológicas, en el que analizo el castigo como tecnología de poder que actuó sobre las transgresiones que representaban amenaza para la concreción del plan educativo en cada u...

Het Oera Linda-boek. Falsificatie of mystificatie?

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W. Prevenier

2006-01-01

G.T. Jensma, De gemaskerde God. François HaverSchmidt en het Oera Linda-boek Walter Prevenier, The Oera Linda book. Forgery or hoaxThe manuscript of the Oera Linda book first appeared on the scene in 1867. It professed to date from the 13th century and presented an account of Friesian history from 557 BC to 1256 AD. Goffe Jensma argues convincingly that the manuscript is in fact a forgery written in pseudo-Runes on paper produced after 1850. It is also evidently a hoax, devised to gain sympat...

Federico Delpino and the foundation of plant biology.

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Mancuso, Stefano

2010-09-01

In 1867, Federico Delpino, with his seminal work "Pensieri sulla biologia vegetale" (Thoughts on plant biology) established plant biology by defining it not in the broad general sense, namely as the science of living beings, but as a branch of natural science dedicated to the study of plant life in relation to the environment. Today, the figure and achievements of this outstanding plant scientist it is almost unknown. In the following pages, I will concisely describe the main realizations of Federico Delpino and outline the significance of his work for modern plant science.

Kommenteret checkliste over Danmarks bier – Del 1: Colletidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

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Madsen, Henning Bang; Calabuig, Isabel

2008-01-01

This paper presents Part 1 of a checklist for the taxa of bees occurring in Denmark, dealing with the family Colletidae, and covering 27 species. The remaining five families will be dealt with in future papers. The following species are hereby recorded as new to the Danish bee fauna: Colletes...... floralis Eversmann, 1852, Hylaeus angustatus (Schenck, 1861) and Hylaeus gracilicornis (Morawitz, 1867). Hylaeus annulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) is excluded from the Danish checklist. Species that have the potential to occur in Denmark are discussed briefly. A systematic overview of the bee families and genera...

The whip spider collection (Arachnida, Amblypygi held in the Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria

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Seiter, Michael

2013-11-01

Full Text Available We present data and remarks on the history and contents of the whip spider collection housed in the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria. The collection comprises a total of 167 specimens from 4 families, 10 genera and 27 species. It includes types of four species: Charinus ioanniticus (Kritscher, 1959, Damon brachialis Weygoldt, 1999, Phrynus parvulus (Pocock, 1902 and Paraphrynus mexicanus (Bilimek, 1867. Short notes on interesting objects and former curators are provided as well as an appendix with a list of species kept alive by Michael Seiter.

Põltsamaa loss / Christian Gottlieb Welté, Stavenhagen Wilhelm Siegfried, Johann Michael Graff

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Welté, Christian Gottlieb, 1748/49-1792

1996-01-01

Lk. 58 (17. saj. pärinevad figuraalsed ahjukahlid), värv., lk. 59 (fragment 1815. a. alevi kaardist), värv., lk. 221 (sisevaated 1770. aastatest, rokokoodekoor J. M. Graff, reprod TÜ kunstikabineti kogust), lk. 222 (lossiansambel, G. Chr. Velté õlimaal 18. saj. lõpust), värv., lk. 223 (loss ja kirik, G. Chr. Velté õlimaal 18. saj. lõpust), värv., lk. 224 (ampiirstiilis ahi härrastemaja saalis), värv., lk. 225 (loss ja alev, W. S. Stavenhageni gravüür 1867)

Aves y literatura. El vuelo de las aves por la literatura

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Ricardo Andrés Manrique Granados

2016-01-01

La presencia de las aves en la literatura de Colombia puede rastrearse hasta sus inicios. Para todos es inmediata la imagen del ave negra de la María (1867), obra del vallecaucano Jorge Isaacs que cumple un papel figurativo fundamental similar al del poema El cuervo de 1845, del estadounidense Edgar Allan Poe, pues remite a la cercana muerte de la amada del protagonista [Isaacs, 1967, pág. 23; Poe, 1840, pág. 321]. La presencia de las aves en la escritura colombiana, así como en múltiples pro...

«Any where out of the world». Portugal: perspectivas europeias

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Clara, Fernando

1999-01-01

Conferência apresentada na 52nd. Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (Universidade de Kentucky, Lexington, USA, 22-24 de Abril de 1999) com o apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento. «Any where out of the world» é o título de um «pequeno poema em prosa» de Charles Baudelaire publicado em 1867 onde significativamente se fala de Lisboa. Num primeiro momento poderá parecer estranho, e até mesmo bizarro, o facto daquele poeta francês colocar a cidade branca e marmórea num qual...

Polydopamine-modified nanocrystalline diamond thin films as a platform for bio-sensing applications

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Pop-Georgievski, Ognen; Neykova, Neda; Proks, Vladimír; Houdková, Jana; Ukraintsev, Egor; Zemek, Josef; Kromka, Alexander; Rypáček, František

2013-01-01

Roč. 543, 30 September (2013), s. 180-186 ISSN 0040-6090. [International Conference on NANO-structures self-assembly - NANOSEA 2012 /4./. S. Margherita di Pula - Sardinie, 25.06.2012-29.06.2012] R&D Projects: GA ČR GAP108/11/1857; GA ČR(CZ) GBP108/12/G108 Grant - others:ČVUT(CZ) SGS10/297/OHK4/3T/14 Institutional support: RVO:61389013 ; RVO:68378271 Keywords : nanocrystalline diamond films * NCD * polydopamine Subject RIV: CD - Macromolecular Chemistry; BM - Solid Matter Physics ; Magnetism (FZU-D) Impact factor: 1.867, year: 2013

Coming of Age: Information Operations and the American Way of War

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2010-06-16

Rene Descartes , the ―Father of Modern Philosophy,‖ who famously envisioned the human condition as consisting of distinct elements of mind and body...15 Ever since Descartes , material humanism and ―science‖ has encouraged the idea that only that which can be observed and measured is ―real...four hundred years, is better known as dualism. Rene Descartes is perhaps the most famous advocate of this philosophical position. Descartes

Processing of Words and Faces by Patients with Left and Right Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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Andrew W. Ellis

1991-01-01

Full Text Available Tests of word and face processing were given to patients with complex partial epilepsy focussed on the left or right temporal lobe, and to non-epileptic control subjects. The left TLE group showed the greatest impairment on object naming and on reading tests, but the right TLE group also showed a lesser impairment relative to the normal control subjects on both tests. The right TLE group was selectively impaired on distinguishing famous from non-famous faces while the left TLE group was impaired at naming famous faces they had successfully recognized as familiar. There was no significant difference between the three groups on recognition memory for words. The implications of the results for theories of the role of the temporal lobes in word and face processing, and the possible neural mechanisms responsible for the deficits in TLE patients, are discussed.

第二の軽井沢を夢想した“観光デザイナー”松本隆治と宮崎寛愛 : 観光リスクマネジメントの観点から

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小川, 功

2014-01-01

The Kitakaruizawa area is located north ofKaruizawa, a famous mountain resort in NaganoPrefecture built by foreign developers in themid-Meiji Period. Despite the resemblance inname, the former is part of Gunma Prefecture,while the latter is situated in Nagano. Kitakaruizawais one of many resorts that weredeveloped around the famous and prestigiousKyu-Karuizawa, or the original Karuizawa, inan attempt to capitalize on its high status.Among such developers, Yasujiro Tsutsumi andKasuke Hoshino, ...

United States Air Force F-35A Operational Basing Environmental Impact Statement. Appendix E: Comments

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2013-09-01

famous for progressive legislation that encourages inclusivenessJ peace and equality. We are famous for our green pastures and our Vermont village...patterns that all preserve special senses of place. We are not known for jobs at all cost, we do not allow heavy industry to pollute our air or...Winooski Vermont, we are deeply committed to t he preservation of th is unique historic treasure. Unfortunately, we find that your identification and

Cymothoa recifea sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae from the mouths of marine fishes of Pernambuco State, Brazil Cymothoa recifea sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae das bocas de peixes marinhos do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil

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Vernon E. Thatcher

2005-09-01

Full Text Available Cymothoa recifea sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae is described from the mouths of Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792 and Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1832. The fish hosts were caught near Itamaracá and Cabo de Santo Agostinho, State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The new species bears a superficial resemblance to Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1793 from which it differs in a number of important respects. In the new species, the basal carinae are large on pereopods 4-7 and usually pointed, whereas in C. oestrum the carinae are small on pereopods 4-6, large on 7 and not pointed. In the new species, only pleopod 1 is simple and 2-5 are provided with pockets and folds. In the other species, pleopods 1-4 are simple and only 5 has folds.Cymothoa recifea sp. nov. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae é descrito das bocas de Centropomus undecimalis (Bloch, 1792 e Oligoplites palometa (Cuvier, 1832. Os peixes foram capturados perto de Itamaracá, Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil. A nova espécie apresenta uma semelhança superficial à Cymothoa oestrum (Linnaeus, 1793 da qual distingue-se pôr várias características. Na nova espécie, as expansões nas bases dos pereópodos ("carinae" são grandes nos 4-7 e, geralmente, terminam em pontas agudas. Em contraste, em C. oestrum, estas estruturas são pequenas nos pereópodos 4-6, grande somente no sétimo e não têm pontas agudas. Na nova espécie, somente o pleópodo 1 é simples e 2-5 apresentam bolsas e dobras. Na outra espécie, os pleópodos 1-4 são simples e somente 5 tem dobras.

La Vista de San Lorenzo y del Campo Valdés de Gijón: Un cuadro del paisajista Mariano Ramón Sánchez pintado para Jovellanos

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González Santos, Javier

2004-12-01

Full Text Available An unpublished view by Mariano Ramón Sánchez (1740-1822 of the Arenal de San Lorenzo de Gijón (Asturias, in the collection of the Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos (Gijón is presented here. The painting, dating from 1796, is based on sketches made by the artist at the site in June 1793, and formed a pair with Campiña (probably of the outskirts of Gijón, now lost. In 1796 both paintings were given by the artist to Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811, magistrate, politician and outstanding intellectual of the Spanish Enlightenment, known to be a collector and man of good taste. These views were inventoried in Jovellanos's house in 1826, thereby demonstrating that they never formed part of the series of landscapes by this artist in the royal collection.

Se publica una vista inédita del Arenal de San Lorenzo de Gijón (Asturias, propiedad del Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos (Gijón, hecha por el pintor y académico Mariano Ramón Sánchez (1740-1822 en 1796, teniendo a la vista los apuntes obtenidos sobre el terreno en junio de 1793. El cuadro hacía pareja con una Campiña (probablemente de los alrededores de Gijón no conservada. Ambas pinturas fueron regaladas por el artista a don Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811, magistrado, político y destacado intelectual de la Ilustración española, y un conocido coleccionista y hombre de gusto, en 1796, en cuya casa de Gijón figuran inventariadas en 1826. Se trata, por tanto, de dos obras de temática paisajista de Sánchez que no formaron parte de la colección real.

Vincenzo Chiarugi: La pazzia y el Reglamento de Bonifacio en los orígenes de la psiquiatría moderna

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Conti, Norberto Aldo

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Vincenzo Chiarugi was director of St Boniface’s Hospital between 1788 and 1818.Based on his experiences in this institution he produced two works we now centuria di osservazioni, published in 1793, where madness is treated as a unity centered in the term pazzia, which can present three clinical aspects: melancholy, mania and amencia, that remind us largely of Pinel’s alienation. Also, in pazzia we find the firstreference to the conception of mental illness as a clinical and evolutive entity, and 2 The Regulation of Boniface, published in 1789, where he exposes the institutional and legal aspects of pazzia. From the analysis of both works we believe we can state that Chiarugi’s conception is at the basis of modern psychiatry disciplinary matrix.Vincenzo Chiarugi fue director del Hospital de San Bonifacio entre 1788 y 1818. De su experiencia en esa institución para enfermos mentales surgen las dos obras aquí presentadas: 1 Della Pazzia in genere e in spece. Trattato medico-analitico con una centuria di osservazioni, publicado en 1793, en él encontramos un tratamiento de la locura como unidad centrada en el término pazzia, que puede presentar tres aspectos clínicos: melancolía, manía y amencia, que recuerdan bastante a la alienación de Pinel, pero en la pazzia encontramos también la primera referencia a la concepción de enfermedad mental como entidad clínico evolutiva, y 2 Reglamento de Bonifacio, publicado en 1789, en donde expone el régimen institucional y jurídico de la pazzia. Creemos que del análisis de estas dos obras se puede sostener que el pensamiento de Chiarugi está a la base de la conformación de la matriz disciplinar psiquiátrica moderna.

Hindcasting of decadal‐timescale estuarine bathymetric change with a tidal‐timescale model

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Ganju, Neil K.; Schoellhamer, David H.; Jaffe, Bruce E.

2009-01-01

Hindcasting decadal-timescale bathymetric change in estuaries is prone to error due to limited data for initial conditions, boundary forcing, and calibration; computational limitations further hinder efforts. We developed and calibrated a tidal-timescale model to bathymetric change in Suisun Bay, California, over the 1867–1887 period. A general, multiple-timescale calibration ensured robustness over all timescales; two input reduction methods, the morphological hydrograph and the morphological acceleration factor, were applied at the decadal timescale. The model was calibrated to net bathymetric change in the entire basin; average error for bathymetric change over individual depth ranges was 37%. On a model cell-by-cell basis, performance for spatial amplitude correlation was poor over the majority of the domain, though spatial phase correlation was better, with 61% of the domain correctly indicated as erosional or depositional. Poor agreement was likely caused by the specification of initial bed composition, which was unknown during the 1867–1887 period. Cross-sectional bathymetric change between channels and flats, driven primarily by wind wave resuspension, was modeled with higher skill than longitudinal change, which is driven in part by gravitational circulation. The accelerated response of depth may have prevented gravitational circulation from being represented properly. As performance criteria became more stringent in a spatial sense, the error of the model increased. While these methods are useful for estimating basin-scale sedimentation changes, they may not be suitable for predicting specific locations of erosion or deposition. They do, however, provide a foundation for realistic estuarine geomorphic modeling applications.

[Gens Rulandica-Hungarian connections of a famous German family of physicians].

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Wix, G

2000-01-01

The Ruland family of German origin played an important role both in Hungarian and European medical history. Being a rather numerous family, and moreover, due to their habit of preferring to give the same first names to their children and because they worked in a relatively short period (ca. between 1550 and 1650), researchers often confuse one Ruland with the other. The present paper based on source-criticism, makes successful attempts to put the genealogy in order, presenting the history of the family, giving detailed biographies of each single Ruland and bringing together the bibliography of their works as well. As a result of her efforts the author puts a new light on the biographical data of the best known Ruland, namely of John David and at the same time she revisits the activity of John Ruland, who lived and worked in Hungary.

Viewers Extract Mean and Individual Identity from Sets of Famous Faces

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Neumann, Markus F.; Schweinberger, Stefan R.; Burton, A. Mike

2013-01-01

When viewers are shown sets of similar objects (for example circles), they may extract summary information (e.g., average size) while retaining almost no information about the individual items. A similar observation can be made when using sets of unfamiliar faces: Viewers tend to merge identity or expression information from the set exemplars into…

[Apocryphal Freud: Sigmund Freud' most famous "quotations" and their actual sources].

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Elms, Alan C

2005-01-01

The article traces the sources of the three most widespread quotations attributed to Freud "What does Woman want?", "To love and to work" (summarizing what a psychological healthy person should be able to do well), and "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". The first could have been spoken by Freud pretty much as we have it. The second was possibly said by Freud, in some form vaguely resembling the currently cited version. The third most probably did not come from him in any form.

FROM THE UNKNOWN STUDENT TO THE FAMOUS GRADUATE OF NOVOROSSIYSK UNIVERSITY

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Д. И. Бургеля

2016-10-01

Full Text Available The theme of the article is illumination of the biography of the graduate of Imperial Novorossiysk University Vasyl Petrovich Gutor. The main task of article – to expand and aggregate biographic information and highlight career of V. P. Gutor. On one concrete example to show how graduates of university proved and realized in various fields of activity, sometimes far from the education got at classical university. V. P. Gutor known as the musician-cellist, he has developed the basic principles of teaching music and has made the significant contribution to musical education of broad masses of the population, was the author methodical and critiques, one of the founders of classical music education. Gutor V. P. was a founder, the director of music schools in Chisinau and Elisavetgrad, and then the teacher and professor of the Odessa conservatory. In article is special attention paid to the Odessa period of his activity. However, unfortunately, it is not enough data on this period. The main finding of the work is that, having tracked a course of life of one specific person, it is possible to tell with confidence that else many destinies of the people carrying a  proud rank of graduates of Imperial Novorossiysk University remain unknown for modern scientists and researchers. The research findings have the practical value for all who are interested in music history, musical pedagogics and history of music in Odessa in the first half of the 20th century.

For Sale--Scotland's Most Famous Mountain Range: Land "Ownership" in Scotland

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Slattery, Deirdre

2005-01-01

The nature of land ownership is infrequently discussed by practitioners of outdoor education, though it is often central to the way they work. The recent controversy over the proposed sale of the Cuillin mountain range on the Isle of Skye in Scotland provoked heated discussion over rights to and benefits of this important place. The main point at…

Thompson’s Spa: The Most Famous Lunch Counter in the World

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Peter Szende

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Thompson’s Spa in Boston was one of the most celebrated restaurant companies in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Founder Charles Eaton was a pioneer in production and service methods, who developed a variety of innovative mechanical systems. This article describes the founding, growth, and eventual decline of the company during the period 1882 to 1968.

Neurobehavioral disorders locked in Alcatraz: case reports on three famous inmates

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Hélio A. G. Teive

2015-08-01

Full Text Available The Alcatraz prison, with its picturesque surroundings and fascinating life stories of its inmates, has been the subject of a number of films and publications. The authors take a closer look at the biographies of “Al Capone”, Robert “Birdman” Stroud and “Mickey” Cohen. These legendary American mobsters shared not only a history at “The Rock”, but also a history of neuropsychiatric diseases, ranging from neurosyphilis to anti-social, borderline and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.

Famous Landmark Identification in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease

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Sheardová, K.; Laczó, J.; Vyhnálek, M.; Andel, R.; Mokrišová, I.; Vlček, Kamil; Amlerová, J.; Hort, J.

2014-01-01

Roč. 9, č. 8 (2014), e105623 E-ISSN 1932-6203 Institutional support: RVO:67985823 Keywords : visual perception * Alzheimer’s disease * brain changes * mild cognitive impairment * medial temporal lobe Subject RIV: FH - Neurology Impact factor: 3.234, year: 2014

Piketty’s Capital. The Revival of Political Philosophy, Political Economy and Social Sciences in the Light of the Declaration of Human and Citizens’ Rights in the French Revolution of 1789

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Øjvind Larsen

2016-03-01

Full Text Available Piketty’s Capital in Twenty-First Century has posed a totally new platform for the discussion of the economy and capitalism. Piketty has reinvented the classical political economy founded by Adam Smith in his 1776 Wealth of Nations. Piketty has shown via massive historical research how growth and inequality have developed since 1793. Piketty’s conclusion is that the French Revolution did not change the existing inequality either in the medium or in the long term. Piketty’s prediction is that a new form of global capitalism will arise, patrimonial capitalism, in which inequality will develop further and the 1% of the World population will control 95% of all wealth in the World.

Extensive population admixture on drone congregation areas of the giant honeybee, Apis dorsata (Fabricius, 1793).

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Beaurepaire, Alexis L; Kraus, Bernard F; Koeniger, Gudrun; Koeniger, Nikolaus; Lim, Herbert; Moritz, Robin F A

2014-12-01

The giant honeybee Apis dorsata often forms dense colony aggregations which can include up to 200 often closely related nests in the same location, setting the stage for inbred matings. Yet, like in all other Apis species, A. dorsata queens mate in mid-air on lek like drone congregation areas (DCAs) where large numbers of males gather in flight. We here report how the drone composition of A. dorsata DCAs facilitates outbreeding, taking into the account both spatial (three DCAs) and temporal (subsequent sampling days) dynamics. We compared the drones' genotypes at ten microsatellite DNA markers with those of the queen genotypes of six drone-producing colonies located close to the DCAs (Tenom, Sabah, Malaysia). None of 430 sampled drones originated from any of these nearby colonies. Moreover, we estimated that 141 unidentified colonies were contributing to the three DCAs. Most of these colonies were participating multiple times in the different locations and/or during the consecutive days of sampling. The drones sampled in the DCAs could be attributed to six subpopulations. These were all admixed in all DCA samples, increasing the effective population size an order of magnitude and preventing matings between potentially related queens and drones.

Transposes, L-Eigenvalues and Invariants of Third Order Tensors

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Qi, Liqun

2017-01-01

Third order tensors have wide applications in mechanics, physics and engineering. The most famous and useful third order tensor is the piezoelectric tensor, which plays a key role in the piezoelectric effect, first discovered by Curie brothers. On the other hand, the Levi-Civita tensor is famous in tensor calculus. In this paper, we study third order tensors and (third order) hypermatrices systematically, by regarding a third order tensor as a linear operator which transforms a second order t...

Studi Komparatif Lukisan Perempuan Perupa dengan Pria Perupa Impresionis dalam Tema Kehidupan Keseharian

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Ira Adriati Winarno; Agus Sachari

2008-01-01

Impressionism is an art movement that firstly established in France in the middle of 19th century. Claude Monet, Èdouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas are famous male impressionist artists that were known by many, yet there are famous female impressionist artists such as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales, and Marie Bracquemond that deserve to be known as well. The presented paper discusses the aesthetics value and meanings of paintings of these female impressionist ar...

Probability distribution relationships

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Yousry Abdelkader

2013-05-01

Full Text Available In this paper, we are interesting to show the most famous distributions and their relations to the other distributions in collected diagrams. Four diagrams are sketched as networks. The first one is concerned to the continuous distributions and their relations. The second one presents the discrete distributions. The third diagram is depicted the famous limiting distributions. Finally, the Balakrishnan skew-normal density and its relationship with the other distributions are shown in the fourth diagram.

Typhus, yellow fever and Medicine in Mexico during the French intervention

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Gerardo-Ramírez, Monserrat; Zavaleta-Castro, Jesús; Gómez-Quiroz, Luis Enrique

2018-01-01

French intervention in Mexico (1861-1867) is particularly full of episodes of patriotic heroism in terms of military, politic and, even, religious affairs, however this history is also rich in episodes related to diseases and the evolution of Mexican scientific medicine practice, epidemics such as typhus (nowadays knows as rickettsiosis), yellow fever, or cholera. Principally, this context outlined the Mexican history and influenced the course of the nation. The epidemics served as fertile land for the development of medicine science leading by prominent physicians, particularly by doctor Miguel Francisco Jiménez. Copyright: © 2018 SecretarÍa de Salud.

大政奉還と「職制案（新官制擬定書）」 : 「公議」の人事

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寺島, 宏貴; Terashima, Hirotaka

2013-01-01

This paper is extended to the philosophy of "Kougi Seitai" (a thought of the parliamentary system 公議政体） to carry out "Kougi" as the open forum in the New Government before the Restoration of Imprial Rule （王政復古） in an, 1867. Concretely, reevaluation of the "Shoku- Sei-An" (New government organization idea) which was authored and edited by Sakamoto Ryoma （坂本龍馬） together with Ozaki Saburo （尾崎三良） from political history view. It considered specially one of the precondition of publishing the "Shok...

A short history of the Royal Odonto Chirurgical Society of Scotland.

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Geissler, Paul R

2014-01-01

In the mid-19th Century, the practice of dentistry in Britain was unregulated and chaotic. Organised training was non-existent, and the public was unable to be assured of satisfactory, ethical treatment. A group of Scottish practitioners, led by John Smith, an Edinburgh surgeon, established the Odonto Chirurgical Society of Scotland in 1867 as an ethical dental society promoting education and regulation of the emerging profession. The Society has prospered over the years. It was granted the title "Royal" on the occasion of its centenary in 1967, and approaches its 150th year with confidence.

Beams on nonlinear elastic foundation

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Lukkassen, Dag; Meidell, Annette

2014-01-01

In order to determination vertical deflections and rail bending moments the Winkler model (1867) is often used. This linear model neglects several conditions. For example, by using experimental results, it has been observed that there is a substantial increase in the maximum rail deflection and rail bending moment when considering the nonlinearity of the track support system. A deeper mathematical analysis of the models is necessary in order to obtain better methods for more accurate numerical solutions in the determination of deflections and rail bending moments. This paper is intended to be a small step in this direction

Internal tide—shelf topography interactions as a forcing factor governing the large-scale distribution and burial fluxes of particulate organic matter (POM) in the Benguela upwelling system

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Monteiro, PMS

2005-09-01

Full Text Available are at the inner and outer shelf break zones, respectively. The moorings at stations 2 and 3 were lost. P.M.S. Monteiro et al. / Continental Shelf Research 25 (2005) 1864–18761866 respectively (Fig. 1b). The deepest mooring at station 5 had a current meter only... 20001227 20010103 Dat m the d 5) P.M.S. Monteiro et al. / Continental Shelf Research 25 (2005) 1864–1876 1867 Temperature at Mooring 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 20001004 20001011 20001018 20001025 20001101 20001108 20001115...

Incomplete deep inelastic processes in 100Mo + 100Mo and 120Sn + 120Sn at 18 and 24 MeV/u

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Petrovici, M.

1989-12-01

Experimental evidence on inclomplete deep inelastic process in 100 Mo + 100 Mo at 18.67 MeV/u, 23.75 MeV/u and in 120 Sn + 120 Sn at 18.34 MeV/u are presented. Such a mechanism is responsible for strong deviations observed at these incident energies in σ 2 Z -TKEL/l g (for two-body) and P 3 /(P 2 + P 3 )-TKEL (for three-body) systematics. Calculations which predict the number of preequilibrium emitted nucleons and the corresponding excitation energy per nucleon that remains in the dinuclear system could explain the observed discrepancies. (author)

Three Licentiates of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh who were decorated with the Victoria Cross.

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Kaufman, M H

2011-08-01

Since the Victoria Cross was introduced in January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour in the face of the enemy, initially during the Crimean War, over 1350 medals have been awarded. Of these, three were awarded to medical officers who had previously gained the Licentiate Diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (LRCS Edin) - Valentine Munbee McMaster on 25 September 1857, Henry Thomas Sylvester on 20 November 1857 (although the acts of valour for which he was awarded his VC occurred on two occasions in September 1855) and Campbell Mellis (or Millis) Douglas on 7 May 1867.

Los moderados ante la intervención francesa. : Séminaire international "L'intervention française au Mexique : impacts culturels et scientifiques dans les deux pays" (Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

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Villegas Revueltas , Silvestre; de Pablo , Elisabeth; Fillon , Richard

2008-01-01

Corpus "AGORA"; En prélude aux manifestations prévues en 2010 au Mexique pour commémorer le bicentenaire de l'indépendance de ce pays, des chercheurs et des archivistes ont souhaité réfléchir ensemble sur les impacts culturels et scientifiques de l'intervention française au Mexique. Si l'histoire militaire de l'expédition (1862-1867) a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs ouvrages universitaires des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, celle des influences culturelles et des institutions scientifiques créée...

La intervención francesa en los archivos del Carso. : Séminaire international "L'intervention française au Mexique : impacts culturels et scientifiques dans les deux pays" (Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

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Ramos , Manuel; de Pablo , Elisabeth; Fillon , Richard

2008-01-01

Corpus "AGORA"; En prélude aux manifestations prévues en 2010 au Mexique pour commémorer le bicentenaire de l'indépendance de ce pays, des chercheurs et des archivistes ont souhaité réfléchir ensemble sur les impacts culturels et scientifiques de l'intervention française au Mexique. Si l'histoire militaire de l'expédition (1862-1867) a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs ouvrages universitaires des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, celle des influences culturelles et des institutions scientifiques créée...

Estados Unidos frente a la intervención francesa en México. : Séminaire international "L'intervention française au Mexique : impacts culturels et scientifiques dans les deux pays" (Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

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Galeana , Patricia; de Pablo , Elisabeth; Fillon , Richard

2008-01-01

Corpus "AGORA"; En prélude aux manifestations prévues en 2010 au Mexique pour commémorer le bicentenaire de l'indépendance de ce pays, des chercheurs et des archivistes ont souhaité réfléchir ensemble sur les impacts culturels et scientifiques de l'intervention française au Mexique. Si l'histoire militaire de l'expédition (1862-1867) a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs ouvrages universitaires des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, celle des influences culturelles et des institutions scientifiques créée...

Informes y exploraciones científicas en Palenque durante la intervención francesa en México. : Séminaire international "L'intervention française au Mexique : impacts culturels et scientifiques dans les deux pays" (Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

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González Medrano , Héctor; de Pablo , Elisabeth; Fillon , Richard

2008-01-01

Corpus "AGORA"; En prélude aux manifestations prévues en 2010 au Mexique pour commémorer le bicentenaire de l'indépendance de ce pays, des chercheurs et des archivistes ont souhaité réfléchir ensemble sur les impacts culturels et scientifiques de l'intervention française au Mexique. Si l'histoire militaire de l'expédition (1862-1867) a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs ouvrages universitaires des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, celle des influences culturelles et des institutions scientifiques créée...

Pelagio Antonio Labastida y la intervención francesa. : Séminaire international "L'intervention française au Mexique : impacts culturels et scientifiques dans les deux pays" (Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

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García , Marta Eugenia; Le Goff , Armelle; de Pablo , Elisabeth; Fillon , Richard

2008-01-01

Corpus "AGORA"; En prélude aux manifestations prévues en 2010 au Mexique pour commémorer le bicentenaire de l'indépendance de ce pays, des chercheurs et des archivistes ont souhaité réfléchir ensemble sur les impacts culturels et scientifiques de l'intervention française au Mexique. Si l'histoire militaire de l'expédition (1862-1867) a déjà fait l'objet de plusieurs ouvrages universitaires des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, celle des influences culturelles et des institutions scientifiques créée...

Um Banco na Misericórdia de Viana do Castelo

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Hugo Silveira Pereira

2011-01-01

Full Text Available On the second half of the XIX century, the Portuguese governments believed that the development of the kingdom required the widening of the credit to agriculture and the fostering of communications and education. In 1866 and 1867, to achieve the first of those requirements, the government published two laws that allowed charity institutions like the Misericórdias to use their assets in order to create rural and industrial banks. In Viana do Castelo, the local Misericórdia took advantage of that law and created the Banco Agrícola e Industrial Vianense.

Two new Korean earthworms (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Megadrilacea, Megascolecidae)

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Blakemore, Robert J.; Lee, Seunghan; Lee, Wonchoel; Seo, Hong-Yul

2013-01-01

Abstract Two Korean endemic pheretimoid Amynthas Kinberg, 1867 species belonging in family Megascolecidae s. stricto are sketched, dissected and described. Amynthas daeari Blakemore sp. n. has spermathecae in 6/7/8 complying with an Amynthas tokioensis spp-group, whilst Amynthas jinburi Blakemore sp. n. has spermathecal pores in 5 & 6 strictly complying with Sims and Easton’s (1972) Amynthas canaliculatus-group. A definitive COI gene barcode is provided for the holotype of Amynthas daeari but the age since collection or preservation of the Amynthas jinburi type in 2000 precluded its mtDNA extraction at this time. PMID:23794922

Women’s rights and minorities’ rights in Canada. The challenges of intersectionality in Supreme Court jurisprudence

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Scotti Valentina Rita

2017-12-01

Full Text Available After a discussion of the impact of the principle of equality, entrenched in the Charters approved in Canada since the 1867 British North American Act, this essay then focuses on the related Supreme Court’s adjudications. A brief analysis of the case-law concerning gender equality is followed by the discussion of cases of Aboriginal and Muslim women with the aim of assessing whether intersectionality represents for these groups of women a source of double discrimination. Brief concluding remarks discuss the challenges deriving from the different options for accommodating the principle of equality with cultural rights.

Humanitarian aid in peacetime: conflicting narratives in the international Red Cross movement, 1867-1884

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Arrizabalaga, Jon

2014-06-01

Full Text Available When, scarcely five years after its advent, the movement of aid societies for the relief of soldiers wounded in battle in international wars, set out to examine what should their activities be in peacetime, many debates were opened up as to the feasibility of broadening their field of action to other warlike settings and disasters. The following is an examination of how these debates developed, providing evidence that (a the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC defended its position not to incorporate civil aims into the humanitarian purposes of the Red Cross international movement until after the First World War; and (b different national societies and committees of the Red Cross, disagreeing with this position, defended, within the framework of emergent paradigms in hygiene and public health, the care of the sick poor, and were involved as early as the 1870s and 1880s in first-aid to the sick and wounded in everyday life as well as in relief of disasters both natural and caused by famine.Cuando, apenas cinco años después de su puesta en marcha, el movimiento de sociedades de socorro a los soldados heridos en campaña en caso de guerras internacionales se propuso examinar en qué deberían consistir sus actividades en tiempo de paz, se abrieron los debates sobre la posibilidad de ampliar su campo de actuación a otros escenarios y calamidades. Se analiza cómo fueron esos debates, ofreciendo muestras de cómo (a el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR defendió no añadir objetivos civiles entre los propósitos humanitarios del movimiento internacional hasta después de la Primera Guerra Mundial; y (b diferentes sociedades nacionales y comités de la Cruz Roja, discrepando de esa posición, defendieron, en el marco de los paradigmas emergentes en la higiene y la salud pública, la asistencia a pobres enfermos y se implicaron, tan pronto como en las décadas de 1870 y 1880, tanto en la intervención rutinaria en socorro de enfermos y heridos en la vida diaria, como en la atención a catástrofes naturales y producidas por el hombre.

Broodstock management of the fine flounder Paralichthys adspersus (Steindachner, 1867 using recirculating aquaculture systems

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Lili Carrera

2013-03-01

Full Text Available The present study describes the methodology used at IMARPE for the capture, acclimation and management of P. adspersus broodstock using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS. RAS improved the water quality and maintained the environmental parameters during the acclimation period, temperature (17.2±1°C, oxygen (8.1±0.7 mg L-1, pH (7.3±0.2, ammonia (0.004±0.003 mg L-1, nitrite (0.52±0.2 mg L-1 and nitrate (3.45±2.6 mg L-1. Fish began to be fed normally from day 15 post-capture, once or twice a day using live fish (Odonthestes regia regia, Mugil cephalus, crustacean (Emerita analoga, fresh food (Engraulis ringens and Dosidicus gigas and artificial feed. A significant loss in the weight of the fish was registered during the first days of captivity, followed by a continuous increase in both sexes. The specific growth rate was positive from the third month of captivity, being the relative growth rate 24.5% and 16.2% in August 2010 in males and females, respectively. Different internal and external parasites were detected in the fish, being Entobdella sp. and Philometra sp. the prevailing parasites observed during samplings.

Multilingual and Cosmopolitan Encounters in the Transleithanian Part of the Habsburg Empire (1867-1918)

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Marácz, L.

2014-01-01

The Transleithanian part, i.e. the Hungarian kingdom of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy recognized a multilingual language regime in which fourteen language were used. The Law on the Equality of the Nationalities XLIV/1868 guaranteed that all the nationality languages had a formal status,

PORTRAIT DE L’ARTISTE EN SINOLOGUE CAMILO PESSANHA (1867–1926 ET LA CHINE

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Gérard М. М. Siary

2016-12-01

Full Text Available This essay analyzes the image of China in the work of the Portuguese poet C. Pessanha. Not only it focuses on Pessanha’s place in the history of Portuguese literature but also analyzes such comparativist aspect as the image of East Asia in the Western culture and European orientalism. The image of China in Pessanha’s work is ambivalent and was developed under the influence of the “myths” invented by Studia Litterarum. Vol. 1, no 3–4 Gérard М. М. Siary 175 the turn-of-the-century decadent writers, essayists, and orientalists whose insights peeped into the hitherto impenetrable and closed Chinese culture. Pessanha does not like and even despises China but is fascinated by the vital energy of this country and its people. He pays special attention to Macau that becomes for him the symbol of Portuguese Empire. Through the image of Macau, he talks about the past, the present, and the future of Portugal, a country that he believed could be reborn if regained its energy.

Students’ perceived risk and investment intention: the effect of brand equity

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Washington Macías

2015-10-01

Full Text Available Emerging markets bring out the question of motivation to include of new investors in the market for financial securities often arises. The purpose of this study is to analyze how brands influence the investment intention of young potential investors. Specifically, the relationship between consumer based brand equity - according to Aaker’s multidimensional conceptualization - and investment intention, mediated by perceived risk, is analyzed. The study contributes to the literature in two ways: (1 based on the revision made, no study has analyzed Aaker’s brand equity construct in investment decisions; (2 studies linking brand aspects to investment decisions have not examined the mediating role of perceived risk. Through an experiment, where perceived risk and investment intention in a famous brand were measured as differences from fictitious brands, the following results were found: (1 the investment intention in a famous brand is higher than in a non-famous one, once controlled for risk and return; (2 the higher the brand equity, the lesser the perceived risk of investing in the famous brand, and the higher the investment intention; (3 the perceived quality of a brand’s products was the dimension by which the effect of brand equity is transmitted. Involvement with the investment task and cognitive ability, at an individual level, the relative size of comparable firms, and the risk and return of investment alternatives were introduced as control variables.

ПРО ГЕНЕРИКУ ВІРШОВАНИХ ТВОРІВ С. ВОРОБКЕВИЧА ПЕРШОГО ПЕРІОДУ ТВОРЧОСТІ (1863–1867 / THE GENRE OF POETRY WORKS OF S. VOROBKEVYCH OF THE FIRST PERIOD OF CREATIVITY (1863–1867

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Тетяна НИКИФОРУК

2018-03-01

Full Text Available Цель исследования. В статье рассматриваются ститворные произведения С. Воробкевича первого периода твор- чества (1863–1867 в аспекте генерики. Методы исследования: формальный, который часто базируется на основе использования статистики, количествен- ной обработки материала; сравнительный, описания, сопоставление для анализа, синтеза и обобщения научных теорий, а также методики литературоведческого наблюдения, классификации и систематизации. Научная новизна. Впервые системно представлено основные особенности генерики стихотворных произведений С. Воробкевича указанного периода, выяснена специфика жанровой организации поэтических произведений писателя, показано активное использование поэтом разных жанров. Выводы. В лирических произведениях этого периода засвидетельствованы такие жанры: песня, дума, элегия, стихо- творение-посвящение, стихотворение-призыв, идиллия; в лиро-эпических – поэма, баллада, стихотворение-новелла и другие. Также сделано обобщение относительно типологических признаков лирики и лиро-эпики, а именно: аутопсихо- логической (70% / ролевой (30

Intertextual Re-creation in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys

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Bertrand Cardin

2006-03-01

Full Text Available As the title of the book indicates, Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys, published in 2001, refers back to Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939. Through the use of such a parodic title, O’Neill places himself within a postmodern literary tradition, involving the influence of famous Irish parodists such as O’Brien or Joyce, who overshadow his novel. This title alludes to a famous text, gives it a new meaning, a new story and re-locates it in a different context, namely a gay universe which calls to mind another famous literary predecessor, Oscar Wilde, a writer also referred to repeatedly, whether explicitly or implicitly, throughout the novel. This paper focuses on the intertextual articulations of the novel in connection with the theories advanced by Neil Corcoran, Augustine Martin and Harold Bloom, whose essays take a real interest in the literary phenomenon of intertextuality.

Varieties of Fame in Psychology.

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Roediger, Henry L

2016-11-01

Fame in psychology, as in all arenas, is a local phenomenon. Psychologists (and probably academics in all fields) often first become well known for studying a subfield of an area (say, the study of attention in cognitive psychology, or even certain tasks used to study attention). Later, the researcher may become famous within cognitive psychology. In a few cases, researchers break out of a discipline to become famous across psychology and (more rarely still) even outside the confines of academe. The progression is slow and uneven. Fame is also temporally constricted. The most famous psychologists today will be forgotten in less than a century, just as the greats from the era of World War I are rarely read or remembered today. Freud and a few others represent exceptions to the rule, but generally fame is fleeting and each generation seems to dispense with the lessons learned by previous ones to claim their place in the sun. © The Author(s) 2016.

The contribution of local features to familiarity judgments in music.

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Bigand, Emmanuel; Gérard, Yannick; Molin, Paul

2009-07-01

The contributions of local and global features to object identification depend upon the context. For example, while local features play an essential role in identification of words and objects, the global features are more influential in face recognition. In order to evaluate the respective strengths of local and global features for face recognition, researchers usually ask participants to recognize human faces (famous or learned) in normal and scrambled pictures. In this paper, we address a similar issue in music. We present the results of an experiment in which musically untrained participants were asked to differentiate famous from unknown musical excerpts that were presented in normal or scrambled ways. Manipulating the size of the temporal window on which the scrambling procedure was applied allowed us to evaluate the minimal length of time necessary for participants to make a familiarity judgment. Quite surprisingly, the minimum duration for differentiation of famous from unknown pieces is extremely short. This finding highlights the contribution of very local features to music memory.

Symmetric functions and orthogonal polynomials

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Macdonald, I G

1997-01-01

One of the most classical areas of algebra, the theory of symmetric functions and orthogonal polynomials has long been known to be connected to combinatorics, representation theory, and other branches of mathematics. Written by perhaps the most famous author on the topic, this volume explains some of the current developments regarding these connections. It is based on lectures presented by the author at Rutgers University. Specifically, he gives recent results on orthogonal polynomials associated with affine Hecke algebras, surveying the proofs of certain famous combinatorial conjectures.

戦争SFの成立と背景

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白鳥, 克弥

2010-01-01

Science Fiction novels have a lot of War novels. Particularly famous works are Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship troopers" and Joe Haldeman's "THE FOREVER WAR". "Starship Troopers" is known as a warlike novel, and "THE FOREVER WAR" is known as an antiwar novel."Starship Troopers" is a famous warlike and right wing novel, and a view of war is based on the early American ideal. The ideal has a self righteous side, and makes others inferior human, because "Starship Troopers" is a warlike novel.On t...

Tai An's Famous and Aristocratic Official Families in Korean---New Research on Wang Yiwen Family Adherent to the End of Ming Dynasty%流寓韩国的泰安名臣世家--明末遗民王以文族系新考

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2016-01-01

韩国历史上著名之“九义士”，乃指明清之际随同朝鲜质子入境的九位明朝士人。其中之王以文，传系明臣王楫孙。王楫为明泰安州人，故里即今岱岳区范镇大王庄。范镇王氏所藏道光钞本《王氏族谱》中，不少内容堪与韩国史料相印证。两者在王楫及其先世的记述基本一致，而王楫之后则存在较大差异。入朝王氏系出于泰安范镇王氏家族洵无疑义，但王以文是否为王楫之孙，仍有进一步查证之余地。%The famous "nine righteous men" in Korean history was the nine scholars who had been ac-companying Korean hostage back to Korean at the end of Ming Dynasty. Wang Yiwen, the grandson of Wang Ji, the Ming minister who was from Da Wang Village of Fan County in Tai An. The book Wangs Pedigree of a Clan formed in Dao Guang of Qing Dynasty contained the same contents with Korean historical materials. Wang Ji and his ancestors' documents are generally the same, and his offspring's are different. So it is con-firmed that Wangs in Korea are from Tai An, but Wang Yiwen's origin should give further investigation.

Family photography in the work of a genealogist – perspectives of engaged and unengaged researchers [Fotografia rodzinna w pracy genealoga – perspektywa badacza zaangażowanego i niezaangażowanego

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Ewa JURCZYK-ROMANOWSKA

2017-11-01

Full Text Available The paper is written by thwo researchers, each representing a different perspective and a different level of emotional engagement in the research material consisting of family photos collected in Księga Rodziny Ziemlińskich z Krobi 1867–1967 [Chronicle of the Ziemliński Family of Krobia 1867–1967]. The paper constitutes an analysis of the functions of family photography. The catalogue of functions is found in reference books and papers: the publications of Piotr Sztompka, Christopher Musselo, and Pierre Bourdieu. It includes: (1 strengthening the feeling of community, (2 initiating and preserving interactions between family members, (3 self-presentation, (4 documentation of family life, (5 prestige, and (6 entertainment. These functions were the starting point of independent analyses of the family photos found in the Chronicle. They were carried out by an engaged researcher: a genealogist, the chronicler of the family, a descendant of the author of the Chronicle and an unengaged researcher, who looks at the analysis of the visual materials from a methodological perspective. What is more, the reflections of both the researchers are illustrated with photos from the Chronicle, and the photos made because of the book: during family reunions and interviews conducted in relation to it. In the final part of the paper the researchers propose that despite the mutual permeation of interpretations, perceiving the photos as illustrations of different investigated functions, and different levels of emotional engagement of both the authors, it is feasible to create a coherent image of the importance of family photography in genealogy. That is why both interpretation and autointerpretation are justified in qualitative research based on analysis of visual materials.

The exotic exchange of smoke rings

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Niemi, Antti J.

2006-01-01

Smoke rings are fascinating, to humans and animals alike. Experienced cigarette smokers blow them for entertainment while dolphins play with air-filled underwater rings that know how to puff. Smoke ring machines can be bought from science gadget shops and Lord Kelvin explains in a paper [Lord Kelvin, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. VI (1867), p. 94; reprinted in Philos. Mag. Vol. XXXIV (1867), p. 15] how one can be constructed from a cardboard box. Even Mount Etna [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/696953.stm] and our Sun [http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast03feb 1 .htm] are known to be sources of huge smoke rings. But a smoke ring is not only fun to watch. It is also an organized structure with the ability to engage in complex acts, best exemplified by the leapfrogging motion of two smoke rings. Here we propose that the leapfrogging actually encodes very important Physics: It is a direct three dimensional generalization of the motion that in the two dimensional context is responsible for exotic exchange statistics which rules the properties of structures and materials such as quantum Hall systems and high-temperature superconductors. By employing very simple and universal concepts with roots in the hydrodynamical Euler equation, the universal law that describes the properties of fluids and gases, we argue that three dimensional exotic exchange statistics is commonplace. Our observations could have far reaching consequences in fluids and gases which are subject to the laws of quantum mechanics, from helium superfluids to Bose-Einstein condensed alkali gases and even metallic hydrogen in its liquid phases. (author)

Notas, novos registros e novas espécies de Ibidionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae Notes, new records and new species of Ibidionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae

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Ubirajara R. Martins

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Novas espécies descritas do Brasil: Tropidion terminatum sp. nov. e Tropidion una sp. nov. (Rondônia; Tropidion buriti sp. nov. (Piauí; Compsibidion manauara sp. nov. (Manaus, Compsibidion elianae sp. nov. (Goiás; Compsibidion novalimae sp. nov. e Compsibidion peti sp. nov. (Minas Gerais. Do Brasil (Mato Grosso e da Bolívia (Santa Cruz, Compsibidion ybyra sp. nov.; da Venezuela (Guarico, Tropidion jolyi sp. nov.; da Bolívia (Santa Cruz, Dodecaibidion bolivianum sp. nov. e Pygmodeon maculatum sp. nov. Minibidion captiosus nom. nov. é proposto para Minibidion bicolor Martins, Galileo & Limeira-de Oliveira, 2011. São estabelecidos novo status para Compsibidion rubricolle Melzer, 1935, e notas sobre Heterachthes tysiphonis (Thomson, 1867. São apresentados novos registros para Tropidion zonapterum (Martins, 1962, Compsibidion campestre (Gounelle, 1908 e Kolonibidion femoratum (Martins, 1971.New species are described from Brazil: Tropidion terminatum sp. nov. and Tropidion una sp. nov. (Rondônia; Tropidion buriti sp. nov. (Piauí; Compsibidion manauara, sp. nov. (Amazonas; Compsibidion elianae sp. nov. (Goiás; Compsibidion novalimae sp. nov. and Compsibidion peti sp. nov. (Minas Gerais; from Brazil (Mato Grosso and Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Compsibidion ybyra sp. nov.; from Venezuela (Guarico, Tropidion jolyi sp. nov.; from Bolivia (Santa Cruz, Dodecaibidion bolivianum sp. nov. and Pygmodeon maculatum sp. nov. Minibidion captiosus nom. nov. to Minibidion bicolor Martins, Galileo & Limeira-de Oliveira, 2011 is proposed. New status is presented for Compsibidion rubricolle Melzer, 1935 and notes on Heterachthes tysiphonis (Thomson, 1867 are presented. New records are presented for Tropidion zonapterum (Martins, 1962, Compsibidion campestre (Gounelle, 1908 and Kolonibidion femoratum (Martins, 1971.

[POETRYAND TERATOLOGY: LORENZO MASCHERONI'S "INVITO A LESBIA CIDONIA" IN ANATOMICAL PREPARATIONS].

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Carla, Garbarino; Valentina, Cani; Stefano, Maretti; Paolo, Mazzarello

2015-01-01

In 1793 Lorenzo Mascheroni, appointed to the chair of Mathematics at the University of Pavia and well-known poet, wrote "L'invito di Dafni Orobiano a Lesbia Cidonia". In the poem he described the beauty of the University of Pavia and its wonders gathered in the scientific collections of the museums. From the beginning, one of the glass cases of the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia shows some of the preparations described in the Mascheroni's verses. In addition to some fossils, human teratological preparations are also exposed: they recall the verses of the poem dedicated to the description of "monstrous" preparations. However, after a detailed scientifc and historical research, the traditional association of the exposed anatomical preparations with the verses is questioned.

Nonlinear Waves in Complex Systems

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2007-01-01

The study of nonlinear waves has exploded due to the combination of analysis and computations, since the discovery of the famous recurrence phenomenon on a chain of nonlinearly coupled oscillators by Fermi-Pasta-Ulam fifty years ago. More than the discovery of new integrable equations, it is the ......The study of nonlinear waves has exploded due to the combination of analysis and computations, since the discovery of the famous recurrence phenomenon on a chain of nonlinearly coupled oscillators by Fermi-Pasta-Ulam fifty years ago. More than the discovery of new integrable equations...

#BlackLivesMatter : - Kändisars bidrag till spridning av rörelsens budskap genom medverkan på bilder

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Gorabi, Aline; Aida, Goitom

2017-01-01

Research question: 1. How have famous people in images contributed to the spread of #BlackLivesMatter’s message? 2. How can the content in the image be tied to the BlackLivesMatter movement.   Aim: The aim of this study is to research how famous people have appeared in images and in a what way they have contributed to spread of #BlackLivesMatter’s message   Method and material: A case study will be performed on the collected material from  two specific case-events that are affiliated to the ...

Das Palatium in Seligenstadt

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Atzbach, Rainer

2009-01-01

The town of Seligenstadt (Hessen) developped from a small market close to Eginhard's famous church and cloister into an imperial town of the Staufer kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire. The king erected one of the first unfortified castles in Europe in order to control his town.......The town of Seligenstadt (Hessen) developped from a small market close to Eginhard's famous church and cloister into an imperial town of the Staufer kingdom in the Holy Roman Empire. The king erected one of the first unfortified castles in Europe in order to control his town....

Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Brazil

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Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a neurologist from the famous Salpêtrière school and a renowned maritime explorer, visited Brazil twice. The first visit was in 1903, when the first French Antarctic expedition, traveling aboard the ship Français, made a very short stopover in Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. The second took place in 1908, during the famous voyage of the Pourquoi Pas? to the Antarctic, when Charcot and his crew stayed in the city of Rio de Janeiro for eight days.

HORROR AND TERROR IN PSYCHO: THE NOVEL AND THE FILM

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Aparecida Forrati (UFSM

2015-03-01

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In 1959, American writer Robert Bloch published the novel Psycho, his most famous work. The story called Alfred Hitchcock’s attention and he produced one of the most famous films of all times. Even though the novel and the film have the same story, they have different plots and explore different aspects of gothic fiction: horror and terror, respectively. Thus, this paper discusses the difference in plot and in the creation of effects (horror and terror to the readership or audience.

FENDL/A-2.0. Neutron activation cross section data library for fusion applications

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Pashchenko, A.B.; Wienke, H.; Kopecky, J.; Sublet, J.C. Sublet; Forrest, R.A.

1997-01-01

This document describes the contents of a comprehensive neutron cross section data library for 13,006 neutron activation reactions with 739 target nuclides from H (A=1,Z=1) to Cm (A=248,Z=96), in the incident energy range up to 20 MeV. FENDL/A-2 is a sublibrary of FENDL-2, the second revision of the evaluated nuclear data library for fusion applications. It is supplemented by a decay data library FENDL/D-2 in ENDF-6 format for 1867 nuclides. The data are available from the IAEA Nuclear Data Section online via INTERNET by FTP command, or on magnetic tape upon request. (author)

The Effect of Volunteer Work on Employability

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Petrovski, Erik; Dencker-Larsen, Sofie; Holm, Anders

2017-01-01

In addition to benefiting others, volunteer work is argued to supply volunteers themselves with skills, reputation, and social connections that increase overall employability. We test this hypothesized causal link between volunteer work and employability with a high-quality 2012 Danish survey...... sample of 1,867 individuals of working age. The survey data are linked to administrative registers containing individual-level data on unemployment. A combination of detailed controls, lagged dependent variables, and instrumental variable regression is used to determine cause and effect. Our findings...... show that performing volunteer work does not statistically significantly affect the risk or rate of unemployment for the typical individual on the labour market....

Ad industriens Vej

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Nielsen, Leif Hansen

2007-01-01

Før 1864 var Slesvig og Holstens industri i vækst, og hertugdømmerne var foregangsområder for industrien i det danske monarki. Det ændrede sig efter Slesvig og Holstens indlemmelse i Preussen i 1867. Generelt ramtes industrien af tilbagegang, da konkurrencen fra den tyske industri blev mærkbar. I...... store byer som Altona, Neumünster, Kiel og Flensborg samt i Hamborgs nordlige opland fortsatte industrialiseringen dog efter en kort overgangsperiode med fornyet kraft. De mindre byer, herunder de nordslesvigske købstæder Haderslev, Aabenraa, Sønderborg og Tønder, stor derimod ligesom landområderne...

Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the First Powered Flight, December 17, 1903. Revised

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Renstrom, Arthur G. (Compiler); Goldblatt, Roberta W.; Minkus, Carl; Berube, Karen L.; Launius, Roger (Technical Monitor)

2002-01-01

This annotated bibliography of material about Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first powered flight, commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the event. This publication represents an updated version of the classic, "Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Bibliography Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Wilbur Wright, April 16, 1867" which was originally published in 1968. Aspects of the Wright brothers' lives covered include: their published writings, biographical references, airplanes used and flight records, airplane components, patents, court records, Wright companies and schools, the Wright-Smithsonian controversy, monuments and museums, memorials, medals and honors, memorabilia, art, poetry, music, motion pictures and juvenile publications. An index is included.

Impact of an icy winter on the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793) populations in Scandinavia

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Strand, Åsa; Blanda, Elisa; Bodvin, Torjan

2012-01-01

The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is an invasive species that has dispersed into Scandinavia during the last few decades. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of extreme winter conditions on the mortality of the Pacific oyster in Scandinavia. The study was done by compilin...

26 CFR 1.79-3 - Determination of amount equal to cost of group-term life insurance.

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2010-04-01

... section prescribes the rules for determining the amount equal to the cost of group-term life insurance on an employee's life which is to be included in his gross income pursuant to the rule of inclusion set..., of group-term life insurance on such employee's life to which the rule of inclusion set forth in...

75 FR 1793 - Study Team for the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Project

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2010-01-13

... by the space available. The meeting room accommodates approximately 200 people. Background: Under a... responsibility and resources for conducting analytic epidemiologic investigations of residents of communities in...

An Analysis of the Atmospheric Trajectories of the Famous Meteorite Producing Fireballs

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Gritsevich, M. I.

2010-08-01

In the present study the modern analytical model of the atmospheric entry (Gritsevich, 2007) is applied to well-known real impacts. These are Pribram, Lost City, Innisfree, and Neuschwanstein meteorite falls. For each of the events preatmospheric mass is calculated using the data of actual observations, by selecting the parameters describing deceleration and ablation of fireballs along the luminous segment of the trajectory. Mathematical model is based on the best fitting of the observational data by the analytical solution of the equations of meteor physics. Other estimations of preatmospheric mass for Pribram, Lost City, Innisfree, and Neuschwanstein fireballs are also presented. The majority of them considerably differs from each other. The greater difference is appreciable between the estimations received by dynamic and photometric methods. In the paper (Ceplecha, ReVelle, 2005) the mixed approach is presented. However, the found terminal mass has been accepted by authors (Ceplecha, ReVelle, 2005) as the given condition. When this study was prepared, the terminal mass has been calculated analytically. And it is exceptionally important, that results have appeared quite close to their real values.