New energy vision of the Tono City area; 2001 nendo Tonoshi shin energy vision. Chiiki shin energy vision sakutei tou jigyo

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2002-02-01

As a leading plan to reconsider the resource consumption in large quantities and to change the society to a circulation type, a new energy vision of the Tono City area was worked out in Tono City, Iwate Prefecture. In this vision, FY 2002 was set as the first fiscal year, and FY 2010 as the target year. From the comprehensive judgement based on the objective availability, technical evaluation, civic needs, etc., biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy, etc. were made the main energy in new energy introduction. As model projects, studied were the introduction of solar energy utilization facilities to Kamigo Elementary School, introduction of the photovoltaic power generation to Aozasa Nursery School and disaster prevention base facilities, project on the wind power generation using large wind turbines, biomass alcohol plant, wood pellet production, etc. The target amount of new energy introduction was 2,640 kW in photovoltaic power generation, 19,000 kW in wind power generation, etc. The CO2 reduction amount including that in heat utilization, clean energy car, etc. was 41,374 t-CO2/y. (NEDO)

Urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis in the Tono Irrigation Scheme, Kassena/Nankana District, Upper East Region, Ghana

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Amankwa, J. A.; Bloch, P.; Meyer-Lassen, J.

1994-01-01

Human- and snail-related aspects of transmission of urinary and intestinal schistosomiasis were studied in the Tono Irrigation Scheme in northern Ghana. The scheme became operational in 1977. In some schools, prevalences and intensities of both Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium infection were...... of S. haematobium takes place in all parts of the irrigation system (lateral canal, night storage dam, main reservoir). Transmission of both S. mansoni and S. haematobium is rather focal and a seasonal pattern of transmission is indicated with peak transmission taking place during the beginning...

The influence of central corneal thickness and age on intraocular pressure measured by pneumotonometry, non-contact tonometry, the Tono-Pen XL, and Goldmann applanation tonometry

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Tonnu, P-A; Ho, T; Newson, T; El Sheikh, A; Sharma, K; White, E; Bunce, C; Garway-Heath, D

2005-01-01

Aims: To evaluate the influence of central corneal thickness (CCT) on intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements made with the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), Tono-Pen XL, ocular blood flow tonograph (OBF), and Canon TX-10 non-contact tonometer (NCT).

Assessment of uncertainties associated with characterization of geological environment in the Tono area. Japanese fiscal year, 2006 (Contract research)

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Toida, Masaru; Suyama, Yasuhiro; Seno, Shoji; Atsumi, Hiroyuki; Ogata, Nobuhisa

2008-03-01

'Geoscientific research' performed at the Tono Geoscience Center is developing site investigation, characterization and assessment techniques for understanding of geological environment. Their important themes are to establish a methodology for analyzing uncertainties in heterogeneous geological environment, and to develop investigation techniques for reducing the uncertainties efficiently. This study proposes a new approach where all the possible options in the models and data-sets that cannot be excluded in the light of the evidence available, are identified. This approach enables uncertainties associated with the understanding at a given stage of the site characterization to be made explicitly using an uncertainty analysis technique based on Fuzzy geostatistics. This, in turn, supports the design of the following investigation stage to reduce the uncertainties efficiently. In the study, current knowledge had been compiled, and the technique had been advanced through geological modeling and groundwater analyses in the Tono area. This report systematized the uncertainty analysis methodology associated with the characterization of the geological environment, and organized the procedure of the methodology with the application examples in the study. This report also dealt with investigation techniques for reducing the uncertainties efficiently, and underground facility design options for handling geological uncertainties based on the characterization of the geological environment. (author)

Development of system technology for routine 10Be measurement in the JAEA-AMS-TONO

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Matsubara, Akihiro; Saito-Kokubu, Yoko; Ishimaru, Tsuneari; Nishizawa, A.; Miyake, M.

2013-01-01

We have completed the development of system technology for routine 10 Be measurement with the 5 MV Pelletron system in the Tono Geoscience Center of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The function of separating 10 Be and 10 B provided in the gas cell set in the front of an ionization chamber was experimentally confirmed through observation of variation of ΔE 1 -E Res spectrum with the gas pressure of the gas cell. The test measurement with beryllium samples of an ice core shows that measured 10 Be/ 9 Be ratios were consistent with the values obtained by the group of the Micro Analysis Laboratory, Tandem accelerator (MALT) in the University of Tokyo. (author)

Comparison of three methods of tonometry in normal subjects: Goldmann applanation tonometer, non-contact airpuff tonometer, and Tono-Pen XL

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Yilmaz, Ihsan; Altan,Cigdem; Aygit,Ebru Demet; Alagoz,Cengiz; Baz,Okkes; Ahmet,Sibel; Urvasizoglu,Semih; Yaşa,Dilek; Demirok,Ahmet

2014-01-01

Ihsan Yilmaz, Cigdem Altan, Ebru Demet Aygit, Cengiz Alagoz, Okkes Baz, Sibel Ahmet, Semih Urvasizoglu, Dilek Yasa, Ahmet DemirokBeyoglu Eye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, TurkeyObjective: We aimed to compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements via three different tonometers: the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), the Tono-Pen® XL (TPXL), and a non-contact airpuff tonometer (NCT).Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 200 eyes from 20...

Cambios en el tono muscular en dos niños con parálisis cerebral espástica mediante la hipoterapia: reporte de casos

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Yasmín Andrea Rodríguez Laiseca

2015-06-01

Full Text Available Introducción: Estudios previos han demostrado que la hipoterapia como terapia complementaria mejora la función motora gruesa en niños con parálisis cerebral. Sin embargo la evidencia no es concluyente. Objetivo: Determinar los cambios en el tono muscular de dos pacientes con parálisis cerebral tipo cuadriparesia espástica mediante la hipoterapia. Descripción del caso: El estudio se llevó a cabo con dos sujetos de género masculino de dos años de edad, con diagnóstico de parálisis cerebral tipo cuadriparesia espástica, nivel V según la escala Gross Motor Function Clasification System (GMFCS. Los niños realizaron 27 sesiones de hipoterapia distribuidas de la siguiente manera: 3 sesiones de acoplamiento en hipoterapia en la primera semana y 24  sesiones de monta terapéutica con una frecuencia de tres veces por semana y una intensidad de 20 minutos por sesión. Se llevó a cabo la valoración del tono muscular mediante la escala de Ashworth modificada (MAS de la siguiente forma: una inicial, dos de control, cuatro post-monta, una final tras 9 semanas de tratamiento continuo y tres mediciones más en la semana uno, dos y tres de inactividad terapéutica. Resultados y discusión: La hipoterapia demostró efecto modulador sobre el tono muscular de los dos sujetos finalizadas las 27 sesiones de hipoterapia, pero este se pierde progresivamente durante el periodo de inactividad terapéutica. Por lo tanto se confirma que esta técnica puede ser una estrategia de tratamiento para el manejo de la espasticidad en pacientes con parálisis cerebral, siempre y cuando se aplique continuamente.

Comparison of Central Corneal Thickness Measured by Standard Ultrasound Pachymetry, Corneal Topography, Tono-Pachymetry and Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography.

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González-Pérez, Javier; Queiruga Piñeiro, Juan; Sánchez García, Ángelx; González Méijome, José Manuel

2018-04-10

To compare central corneal thickness (CCT) measured by standard ultrasound pachymetry (USP), and three non-contact devices in healthy eyes. A cross-sectional study of CCT measurement in 52 eyes of 52 healthy volunteers was done by a single examiner at Ocular Surface and Contact Lens Laboratory. Three consecutive measurements were done by standard USP, non-contact tono-pachymeter, Pentacam corneal topographer, and Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT). The mean values were used for assessment. The results were compared using multivariate ANOVA, linear regression, and Pearson correlation. Agreement among the devices was analyzed using mean differences and Bland-Altman analysis with 95% limits of agreement (LoA). Finally, reliability was analyzed using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Mean CCT by ultrasound pachymeter, tono-pachymeter, corneal topographer and AS-OCT were 558.9 ± 31.2 µm, 525.8 ± 43.1 µm, 550.4 ± 30.5 µm, and 545.9 ± 30.5 µm respectively. There was a significant positive correlation between AS-OCT and USP (Pearson correlation = 0.957, p device, and USP. Mean CCT among USP, Pentacam and AS-OCT were comparable and had significant linear correlations. In clinical practice, these three modalities could be interchangeable in healthy patients.

Rethinking of the criteria for natural analogue study. A case of Tono natural analogue study

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Yoshida, Hidekazu

1996-01-01

Natural analogue regarding long-term performance of the geological disposal system for radioactive waste isolation is essentially the study of geochemical process which has been evolved in geological environment. All geochemical studies, however, will not be nominated as natural analogue studies. It is, therefore, important to be clear the criteria for natural analogue study with the view of analogy by following three categories, (1) Conceptual model development, (2) Data provision and (3) Model testing, for the concept of geological disposal and safety assessment model. Rethinking of the criteria for natural analogue study through the case of Tono Natural Analogue Study, and the usefulness of natural analogue study for the safety assessment of geological disposal system in Japan have been presented in this paper. (author)

Caída abrupta del tono muscular al entrar a sueño MOR en el ser humano

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Rosales-Lagarde, Alejandra; del Río-Portilla, Irma Yolanda; Guevara, Miguel Ángel; Corsi-Cabrera, María

2009-01-01

De acuerdo con el manual estandarizado para la clasificación del sueño en el ser humano, tres variables fisiológicas marcan el inicio del sueño con movimientos oculares rápidos (MOR): la desincronización electroencefalográfica (EEG), los movimientos oculares rápidos y la pérdida de tono muscular. De estos tres indicadores, uno de ellos, los movimientos oculares rápidos, es una manifestación intermitente o fásica que consiste en movimientos que pueden ser aislados o emitirse en salvas de vario...

Study on dose assessment in surrounding environment of the Tono Mine associated with closure activity

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Sasao, Eiji

2012-07-01

Dose assessment associated with closure activity of the Tono Mine has been performed. In this assessment, exposure dose has been calculated on groundwater and surface water migration of radionuclide from 1) waste rock in the waste rock dump facility, 2) mining waste in the mining waste facility, and 3) uranium ore and waste rock backfilled in the shafts and galleries. Direct and skyshine gamma rays and exposure of exhalated radon from the waste rock dump has also been evaluated. An evaluation tool developed for safety assessment for sub-surface disposal of radioactive waste is utilized for this assessment. Localities for dose evaluation are selected at the Higashihoragawa and Hiyoshigawa based on the topography around the Tono Mine and groundwater flow simulation. Evaluation scenarios are classified into 'Scenario for intake of agricultural product' as the base scenario, and 'Scenario for intake of groundwater' as the alternative scenario. Parameters for dose assessment are set-up based on the existing data. But the range and uncertainty of parameters are taken into account in the 'alternative cases'. As the result of dose assessment, maximum exposure dose of the base scenario is 0.08mSv/year, and 0.09mSv/year including direct and skyshine gamma rays and exposure of exhalatedradon at the Higashihoragawa. Maximum exposure dose of the alternative scenario is 0.08mSv/year (0.09mSv/year including direct and skyshine gamma rays and exposure of exhalated radon). On the alternative cases, exposure doses are calculated as 0.05-0.14mSv/year in both of the base and alternative scenarios. At the Hiyoshigawa, maximum exposure dose is less than 0.001mSv/year (1x10 -6 mSv/year) for the base scenario, and 0.001mSv/year for the alternative scenario. On the alternative cases, maximum exposure doses are less than 0.001mSv/year for all cases of the base scenario and 0.0006-0.002mSv/year for the alternative scenario. (author)

Natural analogue study of uranium deposits in Japan with special reference to the Tono uranium deposit

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Komuro, Kosei; Sasao, Eiji

2004-05-01

In order to verify the safety assessment for geological disposal system of high-level radioactive waste, it is necessary to evaluate properly the stability of the disposal system under natural hydrogeological environment over long period of time (ten to hundred thousands years). For the safety assessment for that in the Japanese Islands, many geological processes inherent in the tectonically active Island-Arc system should be also taken into consideration in addition to those in stable continental environment. However, it is difficult because some processes such as earthquake seem to be accidental and some are periodic or gradual over our life scale. The uranium deposits in Japan are subjected to many geological processes inherent in the tectonically active Island-Arc system. The studies on long-term preservation of uranium deposits in Japan from a natural analogue viewpoint would be expected to provide useful information for the assessment in the Japanese Islands over long period of time. In order to understand the behavior of radionuclides under natural hydrogeological environment in Japanese Islands over long period of time, the uranium deposits in Japan, especially of the Tono uranium deposit was investigated from a natural analogue viewpoint under the course of joint research program by University of Tsukuba and Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute. Important conclusions obtained in the present study are summarized as follows: The migration behavior of the radionuclides in the granite area is mainly controlled by the stability of original minerals in oxic condition, being due to poor reducing agents such as organic matter and sulfide minerals. In the case of hydrothermal alteration, yttrialite and fergusonite were decomposed and thorogummite was formed at the altered part, whereas zircon and allanite have not been significantly altered. In the case of weathering, autunite and torbernite were formed, probably due to the high phosphorus weathering

Coupled geochemical/hydrogeological modelling to assess the origin of salinity at the Tono area (Japan)

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Guimera, Jordi; Ruiz, Eduardo; Luna, Miguel; Arcos, David; Jordana, Salvador; Saegusa, Hiromitsu

2005-01-01

Numerical models are powerful tools for the characterization of groundwater flow, especially when integrating geochemical and hydrogeological data. This paper describes modeling exercises performed in the area surrounding the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) Construction Site in central Japan. A particular issue being investigated at the MIU Site is the presence of saline water detected at depth in certain boreholes. The main objective of this study is to develop conceptual physical models for the origin of this salinity and to test these conceptual models using numerical modeling techniques. One scenario being investigated is that the saline fluids represent residual Miocene age seawater which has been slightly altered by water-rock interactions. It is likely that during Miocene times, seawater inundated the Tono area. This hypothesis is partially supported by carbon and oxygen isotopic data of the calcite fracture filling materials. (author)

Water resources management using the WRF-Hydro modelling system: Case-study of the Tono dam in West Africa

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E. Naabil

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Water resources are a major source of economic development for most West African (WA countries. There is, however inadequate information on these resources for the purposes of planning, decision-making and management. This paper explores the potential for using a state of the art hydrological model (WRF-Hydro in a fully coupled (i.e. land surface hydrology-atmosphere mode to assess these water resources, particularly the Tono basin in Ghana. The WRF-Hydro model is an enhanced version of the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF which allows simulating river discharge. A 2-domain configuration is chosen: an outer domain at 25 km horizontal resolution encompassing the West African Region and an inner domain at 5 km horizontal resolution centered on the Tono basin. The infiltration partition parameter and Manning’s roughness parameter were calibrated to fit the WRF-Hydro simulated discharge with the observed data. The simulations were done from 1999 to 2003, using 1999 as a spin-up period. The results were compared with TRMM precipitation, CRU temperature and available observed hydrological data. The WRF-Hydro model captured the attributes of the “observed” streamflow estimate; with Nash-Sutcliff efficiency (NSE of 0.78 and Pearson’s correlation of 0.89. Further validation of model results is based on using the output from the WRF-Hydro model as input into a water balance model to simulate the dam levels. WRF-Hydro has shown the potential for use in water resource planning (i.e. with respect to streamflow and dam level estimation. However, the model requires further improvement with respect to calibration of model parameters (e.g. baseflow and saturated hydraulic conductivity considering the effect of the accumulation of model bias in dam level estimation.

“Y me comí mis caraotas”: Uso del posesivo átono en el español de Caracas

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Ugueto, Marluis

2015-01-01

En el español, el posesivo átono puede expresar relaciones de parentesco y relaciones de posesión real (física o abstracta). Igualmente, a veces se relaciona con la persona que diseña, crea o estudia el objeto o con la que lo usa regularmente. En la mayoría de los casos, la relación entre la entidad poseída y el poseedor parece bastante clara, pero es común encontrar frases en las que la función semántica del posesivo no es tan evidente. En el español venezolano, diferentes autores, tales com...

The influence of gestational age and birth weight in the clinical assesment of the muscle tone of healthy term and preterm newborns A influência da idade gestacional e do peso ao nascimento na avaliação clínica do tono muscular de recém nascidos a termo e prematuros hígidos

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Edla S. da Silva

2005-12-01

Full Text Available OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the influence of gestational age (GA and birth weight (BW in the clinical assessment of the muscle tone of healthy term and preterm newborns. METHOD: Cross sectional study. The muscle tone of healthy 42 preterm and 47 term newborns was quantified and measured with a goniometer (an instrument for measuring angles respectively between 7th-14th day of life and 24-48 hours of life. Newborns were grouped according to GA and BW and evaluated at fixed time intervals by one examiner. Preterm newborns were matched to term at 40 weeks postconceptional age (PCA. RESULTS: The evolution of muscle tone in the preterm occurred gradually, following PCA, independent of birth weight. Preterm newborns had lower scores in all muscle tone indicators when compared to term at the first assessment. Differences were observed among preterm small for GA and adequate to GA for the indicator heel to ear (pOBJETIVO: Verificar a influência da idade gestacional (IG e do peso ao nascimento (PN na avaliação do tono muscular de recém nascidos (RN a termo e prematuros hígidos. MÉTODO: Estudo transversal. O tono muscular de 42 RN prematuros e 47 termo foi quantificado e mensurado com goniômetro (instrumento para medir ângulos, respectivamente entre 7-14 dias de vida e 24-48 horas de vida. Os RN foram agrupados de acordo com IG e PN, sendo avaliados em intervalos fixos. RN prematuros foram comparados aos a termo na 40ª semana de idade concepcional (IC. RESULTADOS: A evolução do tono muscular nos RN prematuros ocorreu de forma gradual de acordo com IC e independente do PN. RN prematuros, na primeira avaliação apresentaram escores de tono muscular inferiores aos de RN a termo em todos os indicadores. Foram observadas diferenças entre RN prematuros pequenos e adequados para a IG em relação ao indicador calcanhar-orelha (p<0,001. O pareamento dos grupos na 40ª semana de IC mostra, exceto pela postura, diferença significativa entre os grupos (p< 0

Comparison of three methods of tonometry in normal subjects: Goldmann applanation tonometer, non-contact airpuff tonometer, and Tono-Pen XL

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2014-06-01

Full Text Available Ihsan Yilmaz, Cigdem Altan, Ebru Demet Aygit, Cengiz Alagoz, Okkes Baz, Sibel Ahmet, Semih Urvasizoglu, Dilek Yasa, Ahmet DemirokBeyoglu Eye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, TurkeyObjective: We aimed to compare intraocular pressure (IOP measurements via three different tonometers: the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT, the Tono-Pen® XL (TPXL, and a non-contact airpuff tonometer (NCT.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 200 eyes from 200 patients. Right eyes of all patients were included in this study. IOP was measured via GAT, NCT, and TPXL by three physicians. Each physician used one of the tonometers. Measurements via the three devices were compared.Results: The mean IOP was 15.5±2.2 mmHg (range 10–22 with the GAT, 16.1±3.0 (range 9–25 with the TPXL, and 16.1±2.8 (range 10–26 with the NCT. Bland–Altman analysis showed that the mean difference between measurements from the NCT and the GAT was 0.6±2.3 mmHg. The mean difference between the TPXL and GAT measurements was 0.7±2.5 mmHg. The mean difference between the NCT and TPXL measurements was −0.02±3.0 mmHg. There was no significant difference between the groups according to a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA test. P-values were 0.998 for NCT–TPXL, 0.067 for NCT–GAT, and 0.059 for TPXL–GAT.Conclusion: The NCT and TPXL provide IOP measurements comparable to those of the gold standard GAT in normotensive eyes.Keywords: tonometry, noncontact tonometry, Goldmann applanation tonometer, Tono-Pen

Automated tone grading of granite; Clasificación automática de granito según su tono

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Catalina Hernández, J.C.; Fernández Ramón, G.

2017-09-01

este problema consiste en la clasificación del producto en función de sus características visuales, lo que tradicionalmente se realiza de forma manual: un operario observa cada pieza y la asigna a uno de los tipos considerados en función de parámetros visuales tales como color, textura, grano, veteado, etc. Sin embargo, esta labor presenta a su vez problemas de consistencia, debidos a la subjetividad del criterio de clasificación de cada operario, y a los errores provocados por su progresiva fatiga. Los intentos de aplicar sistemas de inspección automática genéricos como los utilizados en la industria cerámica han resultado fallidos debido a que la piedra natural presenta una variabilidad mucho mayor que las baldosas cerámicas. Por ello, ha sido necesario desarrollar sistemas de clasificación específicamente diseñados para el tratamiento de los ámetros visuales que diferencian los distintos tipos de piedra natural. A continuación se describe los pormenores del sistema de visión artificial desarrollado por AITEMIN para la clasificación automática de piezas de granito en función de su tono, que permite dar una solución integral a la problemática del control de tono en la industria de elaboración y comercialización de granitos. El sistema ha sido diseñado para ser entrenado fácilmente por el usuario final, mediante el aprendizaje de las muestras seleccionadas como patrones de tono.

Estudo comparativo do tono muscular na paralisia cerebral tetraparética em crianças com lesões predominantemente corticais ou subcorticais na tomografia computadorizada de crânio Comparative study of muscular tonus in spastic tetraparetic cerebral palsy in children with predominantly cortical and subcortical lesions in computerized tomography of the skull

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Cristina Iwabe

2003-09-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Comparar a distribuição e intensidade do tono muscular na paralisia cerebral tetraparética espástica (PC-T, correlacionando os dados clínicos com a localização da lesão no sistema nervoso central. MÉTODO: Foram incluídas 12 crianças de dois a quatro anos de idade com lesões predominantemente corticais (seis crianças e subcorticais (seis crianças. O tono foi analisado nos membros superiores (MMSS e inferiores (MMII baseado no protocolo de Durigon e Piemonte. RESULTADOS: Não houve diferença significante quanto à intensidade e distribuição de tono em MMSS e MMII nos dois grupos. Comparando os MMSS e MMII de sujeitos do mesmo grupo, os MMII apresentaram mais assimetrias e maior intensidade do tono do que os MMSS. CONCLUSÃO: Neste estudo, crianças com PC devido a lesões predominantemente corticais ou subcorticais apresentam déficit semelhante na modulação de tono, ocasionando distribuição simétrica e homogênea de hipertonia que predomina em MMII.OBJECTIVE: To compare distribution and intensity of muscular tonus in spastic tetraparetic cerebral palsy (CP, correlating the clinical data with lesion location in the central nervous system. METHOD: Twelve children aged two to four years old with predominantly cortical lesions (six children and subcortical lesions (six children were included. The tonus was analyzed in the upper (UULL and lower limbs (LLLL based on Durigon and Piemonte protocol. RESULT: There was no significant difference regarding tonus intensity and distribution in the UULL and LLLL in both groups. Comparing the upper and lower limbs of subjects in the same group, the LLLL presented more asymmetry and higher tonus intensity than the UULL. CONCLUSION: In this study children with CP as a result of predominantly cortical or subcortical lesions present a similar deficit in tonus modulation, causing a symmetric and homogeneous distribution of hypertonicity, which is predominant in the LLLL.

Cambios en el tono muscular en dos niños con parálisis cerebral espástica mediante la hipoterapia: reporte de casos

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Rodríguez Laiseca, Yasmín Andrea; Lerma Castaño, Piedad Rocío

2015-01-01

Introducción: Estudios previos han demostrado que la hipoterapia como terapia complementaria mejora la función motora gruesa en niños con parálisis cerebral. Sin embargo la evidencia no es concluyente. Objetivo: Determinar los cambios en el tono muscular de dos pacientes con parálisis cerebral tipo cuadriparesia espástica mediante la hipoterapia. Descripción del caso: El estudio se llevó a cabo con dos sujetos de género masculino de dos años de edad, con diagnóstico de parálisis cerebral tipo...

Estimation of groundwater recharge from the subsurface to the rock mass. A case study of Tono Mine Area, Gifu Prefecture

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Kobayashi, Koichi; Nakano, Katushi; Koide, Kaoru

1996-01-01

The groundwater flow analysis involve the groundwater recharge from the subsurface to the rock mass. According to water balance method, annual groundwater recharge is calculated by the remainder of annual evapotranspirator and river flow from annual precipitation. In this estimation, hydrological and meteorological data observed for 5 years on the watershed in Tono mine area is used. Annual precipitation ranges from 1,000 to 1,900 mm and annual river flow ranges from 400 to 1,300 mm, then river flow depends critically on precipitation. Annual evapotranspiration calculated by Penman method ranges from 400 to 500 mm. It is less fluctuant than annual precipitation. As the result of examination of water balance in subsurface zone estimated, annual ground water recharge ranges from 10 to 200 mm in this watershed. (author)

Radiation education by means of the measurement of natural environmental radiation in Tono region, Gifu prefecture

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Maruyama, Haruo; Yoshida, Yasuo; Uda, Tatsuhiko; Obayashi, Haruo

1999-01-01

The Tono region is placed in the south-east of Gifu prefecture. In this region, there is a plan of construction of the Research and Education Park. As the center facility of the park, the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has started their research activities. The Plasma Research Committee of Toki-city has been organized by the board of education of Toki-city for about 20 years. The committee is mainly composed of science teachers of elementary school, junior high school and high school in the area. The committee has measured continuously the natural environmental background radiations in cooperation with NIFS. Its activities started before constructing the NIFS laboratory buildings. Now, the new measuring points in Tajimi-city and Mizunami-city are added to the points in Toki-city area, therefore, some teachers join as the new members of the committee. In this conference, we present. (1) Plasma Research Committee of Toki-city; its history, organization and activities. (2) Obtained data of the natural environmental radiation in Toki-city. (3) Example lecture taken in natural radiation, its results and the farther issues. (author)

El tono fundamental y la duración: dos aspectos de la taxonomía prosódica de las modalidades de habla (enunciativa e interrogativa) del español

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Fernández Planas, Ana Ma. (Ana María); Martínez Celdrán, Eugeni

2003-01-01

Este estudio establece en primer lugar una taxonomía general de las estructuras de tono fundamental y de duración -dos de los parámetros responsables de la prosodia en español- tanto en modalidad enunciativa como en modalidad interrogativa en habla de laboratorio en el pretonema de las oraciones. En segundo lugar, relaciona las estructuras obtenidas con la posición acentual en la frase, tanto en el pretonema como en el tonema. Los resultados se obtienen a partir de una metodología automática ...

Nitrogen functionality of glucose-glycine condensate; Glucose to glycine tono shukugo hanno (shukugobutsuchu no chisso kagobutsu no keitai bunseki)

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Tanaka, C.; Yoshioka, T.; Komano, T.; Mashimo, K.; Wainai, T. [Nihon University, Tokyo (Japan). College of Science and Technology; Sugimoto, Y.; : Miki, Y. [National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba (Japan)

1996-10-28

In order to clarify a humification process in the early stage of coalification, the nitrogen functionality of prepared glucose-glycine condensate was studied experimentally. In experiment, the condensate was prepared by heating the mixture of glucose, glycine and water in a autoclave at 130{degree}C for 50 hours, and furthermore heating the produced solid material in water at 300{degree}C. After the condensate was hydrocracked, the fraction, condensate and hydrocracking residue were analyzed by elementary analyzer, {sup 13}C-NMR, XPS, FT-IR, capillary GC-FID/NPD and GC-MS. As a result, the glucose-glycine condensate could be arranged on the basis of three types of nitrogen such as pyridine, pyrrole and quaternary amine type. Pyridine type nitrogen increased, while quaternary amine type one decreased with an increase in heating treatment temperature. Rich pyrrole type nitrogen and poor pyridine type one were found in light nitrogen compounds in hydrocracked products. 2 refs., 4 figs., 2 tabs.

[Comparative study of intraocular pressure measurements by Goldmann applanation tonometer, noncontact tonometer and TonoPen].

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Ceská, Burdová M; Ferrová, K; Filous, A; Oskorypová, K; Lezatková, P; Sedlácková, P

2012-02-01

The purpose of the study was to compare the levels of the intraocular pressure (NOT) measured in one eye at the same moment by three different methods: by Goldmann applanation tonometer (AT), non-contact tonometer (BT) and Tono-Pen (TP). It was further set the average variability of the performed measurements for particular tonometric methods. NOT was assessed in 106 eyes of 106 subjects aged 7-77 years (average 34.3 +/- 17.1 years). NOT was measured at the same moment with BT, TP and AT. The obtained data were statistically analyzed. The average NOT was 16.55 +/- 2.95, 17.95 +/- 4.47 and 16.13 +/- 3.4 mmHg when AT, BT and TP were applied. Average variability of three measurements for AT, BT and TP was 1.51 +/- 0.96, 1.78 +/- 1.08 and 1.47 +/- 0.9 mmHg. Average NOT levels of the measured AT and TP were almost identical with a difference of 0.42 mmHg (p = 0.236). Average level of the intraocular pressure measured by BT was higher by 1.40 mmHg and 1.82 mmHg in comparison with AT and TP (p = 0.00002), respectively. NOT measurement produced almost identical average levels at AT and TP, whereas at BT the levels were much higher. Average variability of the three subsequent NOT measurements was the highest at BT, whereas at AT and TP the average variability was lower and nearly identical.

Composição florística e estrutura da comunidade de epífitas vasculares em uma área de ecótono em Campo Mourão, PR, Brasil

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O presente estudo foi realizado em uma área de ecótono de aproximadamente 30 hectares entre Floresta Estacional Semidecidual e Floresta Ombrófila Mista, localizada na Capela do Calvário, município de Campo Mourão, PR. Para a análise fitossociológica foram selecionados 80 forófitos. No levantamento total foram encontradas 61 espécies, 39 gêneros e 13 famílias de epífitas (10 de Pteridófitas e 51 de Magnoliófitas). As famílias mais ricas foram: Orchidaceae (38%), Bromeliaceae e Polypodiaceae (1...

Status of geochemical modeling of groundwater evolution at the Tono in-situ tests site, Japan

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Sasamoto, Hiroshi; Yui, Mikazu; Arthur, R.C.

1999-12-01

Hydrochemical investigation of Tertiary sedimentary rocks at JNC's Tono in-situ tests site indicate the groundwaters are: meteoric in origin, chemically reducing at depths greater than a few tens of meters in the sedimentary rock, relatively old [carbon-14 ages of groundwaters collected from the lower part of the sedimentary sequence range from 13,000 to 15,000 years BP (before present)]. Ca-Na-HCO 3 type solutions near the surface, changing to Na-HCO 3 type groundwaters with increasing depth. The chemical evolution of the groundwaters is modeled assuming local equilibrium for selected mineral-fluid reactions, taking into account the rainwater origin of these solutions. Results suggest it is possible to interpret approximately the 'real' groundwater chemistry (i.e., pH, Eh, total dissolved concentrations of Si, Na, Ca, K, Al, carbonate and sulfate) if the following assumptions are adopted: CO 2 concentration in the gas phase contacting pore solutions in the overlying soil zone=10 -1 bar, minerals in the rock zone that control the solubility of respective elements in the groundwater include; chalcedony (Si), albite (Na), kaolinite (Al), calcite (Ca and carbonate), muscovite (K) and pyrite (Eh and sulfate). It is noted, however, that the available field data may not be sufficient to adequately constrain parameters in the groundwater evolution model. In particular, more detailed information characterizing certain site properties (e.g., the actual mineralogy of 'plagioclase', 'clay' and 'zeolite') are needed to improve the model. Alternative conceptual models of key reactions may also be necessary. For this reason, a model that accounts for ion-exchange reactions among clay minerals, and which is based on the results of laboratory experiments, has also been evaluated in the present study. Further improvements of model considering ion-exchange reactions are needed in future, however. (author)

Florestas estacionais e áreas de ecótono no estado do Tocantins, Brasil: parâmetros estruturais, classificação das fitofisionomias florestais e subsídios para conservação

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Haidar,Ricardo Flores; Fagg,Jeanine Maria Felfili; Pinto,José Roberto Rodrigues; Dias,Ricardo Ribeiro; Damasco,Gabriel; Silva,Lucas de Carvalho Ramos; Fagg,Christopher William

2013-01-01

O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever a riqueza, estrutura e diversidade de espécies arbóreas em áreas de Floresta Estacional e ecótono (Floresta Estacional/Floresta Ombrófila) no estado do Tocantins, buscando subsídios para a conservação, manejo florestal, compensação de reserva legal e recuperação ambiental, além de discutir as identidades fitogeográficas em comparação com outras florestas do Brasil. Em 18 bacias hidrográficas, conduziu-se amostragem da vegetação arbórea (DAP > 5 cm) de 22 ...

Comparison of three methods of tonometry in normal subjects: Goldmann applanation tonometer, non-contact airpuff tonometer, and Tono-Pen XL.

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Yilmaz, Ihsan; Altan, Cigdem; Aygit, Ebru Demet; Alagoz, Cengiz; Baz, Okkes; Ahmet, Sibel; Urvasizoglu, Semih; Yasa, Dilek; Demirok, Ahmet

2014-01-01

WE AIMED TO COMPARE INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE (IOP) MEASUREMENTS VIA THREE DIFFERENT TONOMETERS: the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), the Tono-Pen(®) XL (TPXL), and a non-contact airpuff tonometer (NCT). This was a cross-sectional study of 200 eyes from 200 patients. Right eyes of all patients were included in this study. IOP was measured via GAT, NCT, and TPXL by three physicians. Each physician used one of the tonometers. Measurements via the three devices were compared. The mean IOP was 15.5±2.2 mmHg (range 10-22) with the GAT, 16.1±3.0 (range 9-25) with the TPXL, and 16.1±2.8 (range 10-26) with the NCT. Bland-Altman analysis showed that the mean difference between measurements from the NCT and the GAT was 0.6±2.3 mmHg. The mean difference between the TPXL and GAT measurements was 0.7±2.5 mmHg. The mean difference between the NCT and TPXL measurements was -0.02±3.0 mmHg. There was no significant difference between the groups according to a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test. P-values were 0.998 for NCT-TPXL, 0.067 for NCT-GAT, and 0.059 for TPXL-GAT. The NCT and TPXL provide IOP measurements comparable to those of the gold standard GAT in normotensive eyes.

Accuracy of intraocular pressure measurements in dogs using two different tonometers and plano therapeutic soft contact lenses.

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Ahn, Jeong-Taek; Jeong, Man-Bok; Park, Young-Woo; Kim, Se-Eun; Ahn, Jae-Sang; Lee, Yes-Ran; Lee, Eui-Ri; Seo, Kangmoon

2012-03-01

To compare and evaluate the accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP) measured through a therapeutic contact lens, using applanation (TonoPen XL(®)) and rebound (TonoVet(®)) tonometers in enucleated dog eyes. A total of 30 enucleated eyes from 15 beagle dogs. To measure accurate IOP, the anterior chamber of each enucleated eye was cannulated with two 26-gauge needles and two polyethylene tubes were connected vertically to an adjustable reservoir bag of normal saline and a pressure transducer. IOP was measured by the TonoPen XL(®) followed by the TonoVet(®) without a contact lens. After a contact lens was applied to the cornea, IOP was re-measured in the same order. Three consecutive IOP measurements were performed using both tonometers. Without the contact lens, the IOP values obtained by both tonometers correlated well according to the regression analysis (TonoVet(®): γ(2) = 0.98, TonoPen XL(®): γ(2) = 0.97, P contact lens was applied to the cornea. Bland-Altman analysis was used to determine the lower and upper limits of agreement (TonoVet(®): -29.7 and +21.1 mmHg, TonoPen XL(®): -3.9 and +3.6 mmHg) between the two devices. This study suggests that the TonoPen XL(®) is a useful tonometer for dogs wearing therapeutic contact lenses, and importantly, contact lenses would not need to be removed prior to IOP measurement. © 2012 American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.

Evaluation of rebound tonometry in red-eared slider turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans).

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Delgado, Cherlene; Mans, Christoph; McLellan, Gillian J; Bentley, Ellison; Sladky, Kurt K; Miller, Paul E

2014-07-01

To evaluate feasibility and accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement by rebound tonometry in adult red-eared slider turtles and determine the effects of manual and chemical restraint on IOP. Seventeen adult red-eared slider turtles. Intraocular pressure was measured with TonoLab® and TonoVet® tonometers in conscious, unrestrained turtles. To evaluate the effects of manual restraint, turtles were restrained by digital pressure on the rostral head or proximal neck. The effect of two chemical restraint protocols (dexmedetomidine, ketamine, midazolam [DKM] and dexmedetomidine, ketamine [DK] subcutaneously) on IOP was evaluated. Triplicate TonoLab® and TonoVet® readings were compared with direct manometry in three ex vivo turtle eyes. TonoLab® correlated better with manometry at IOPs < 45 mmHg than TonoVet® (linear regression slopes of 0.89 and 0.30, respectively). Mean (±SD) IOP in unrestrained conscious turtles was significantly lower (P < 0.01) with TonoLab® (10.02 ± 0.66 mmHg) than with TonoVet® (11.32 ± 1.57 mmHg). Manual neck restraint caused a significant increase in IOP (+6.31 ± 5.59 mmHg), while manual rostral head restraint did not. Both chemical restraint protocols significantly reduced IOP (DKM: −1.0 ± 0.76 mmHg; DK: −1.79 ± 1.17) compared with measurements in conscious unrestrained turtles. Chemical and manual neck restraint affected IOP. Rostral head restraint had no significant effect on IOP and is, therefore, recommended as the appropriate restraint technique in red-eared slider turtles. TonoLab® measurements estimated actual IOP more accurately, within physiologic range, than measurements obtained using the TonoVet®. © 2013 American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists.

Comparison of intraocular pressure measurements with different contact tonometers in young healthy persons.

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Galgauskas, Saulius; Strupaite, Rasa; Strelkauskaite, Ernesta; Asoklis, Rimvydas

2016-01-01

To analyze the correlation of Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), I-Care tonometer and Tono-Pen tonometer results in young healthy persons, and to investigate the influence of central corneal thickness (CCT) on intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements recorded with these tonometers. We conducted a pilot clinical study in 78 eyes of 78 subjects aged 22-28 years old (44 women and 34 men; mean age 23.8±1.19y). IOP was measured using GAT, I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometers, followed by measurements of CCT. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 20.0. The mean IOPs and standard deviation (±SD) for GAT, I-Care and Tono-Pen were 15.62±2.281 mm Hg, 16.29±2.726 mm Hg and 16.32±2.393 mm Hg, respectively. The mean CCT was 555.15±29.648 µm. Clear positive correlations between GAT and I-Care, GAT and Tono-Pen, and I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometers were found (r=0.867, P0.05). Both non-gold standard tonometers were affected by CCT; that is, both I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometer values were significantly higher with higher CCT means (>555 µm; MD=-1.282, Ptonometers overestimated IOP compared with the GAT values. Either the I-Care or Tono-Pen tonometer could be used instead of GAT because there was no significant difference between their results. Higher CCT values (>555 µm) were associated with overestimated IOP values.

INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE AND EXAMINATION FINDINGS IN THREE SPECIES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN TREE FROGS (CRUZIOHYLA CRASPEDOPUS, CRUZIOHYLA CALCARIFER, AND ANOTHECA SPINOSA).

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Lewin, Andrew C; Hausmann, Jennifer C; Miller, Paul E

2017-09-01

The purpose of this prospective study was to describe intraocular pressure (IOP) and examination findings in three tree frog species (Cruziohyla craspedopus [fringe leaf frog], Cruziohyla calcarifer [splendid leaf frog], and Anotheca spinosa [spiny-headed or coronated tree frog]). Thirty-one C. craspedopus, four C. calcarifer, and five A. spinosa were weighed, sexed based on phenotype where possible, and examined using slit-lamp biomicroscopy and indirect ophthalmoscopy. IOP was measured using the TonoVet and TonoLab rebound tonometers while the frogs were held two ways (unrestrained, then restrained). Statistical differences were determined using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-tests. Mean ± SD IOP (TonoVet and TonoLab, respectively) was 15.1 ± 2.5 mmHg and 15.6 ± 4.1 mmHg in C. craspedopus; 14.8 ± 1.5 mmHg and 18.8 ± 3.1 mmHg in C. calcarifer; and 9.1 ± 2.1 mmHg and 10.8 ± 1.4 mmHg in A. spinosa. There was no significant difference in IOP in C. craspedopus by eye (Right vs Left), tonometer, or restraint method. IOP in female C. craspedopus was 1-3 mm Hg higher than in males with both devices (P Cruziohyla genus frogs and A. spinosa for the TonoVet (P < 0.05). There was no difference in IOP measurements between the TonoVet and TonoLab in C. craspedopus. IOP varied by gender in C. craspedopus and between species, but not by tonometer. Ocular abnormalities were minimal in this group of captive bred frogs.

Evaluation of rebound tonometry in non-human primates.

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Elsmo, Elizabeth J; Kiland, Julie A; Kaufman, Paul L; McLellan, Gillian J

2011-04-01

To determine the accuracy and reproducibility of intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements obtained with the TonoVet® rebound tonometer in cynomolgus macaques and to determine the effects of corneal thickness on measurements obtained by the TonoVet®. The anterior chambers of both eyes of anesthetized monkeys were cannulated with branched 23-G needles; one branch was connected to a vertically adjustable reservoir and the other to a pressure transducer. IOP was increased by 5 mmHg increments and then decreased by 10 mmHg decrements. IOP was measured using the TonoVet® at each increment and decrement by 2 independent observers and at every other increment and every decrement by a single observer using 'minified' Goldmann applanation tonometry. Central corneal thickness was measured with a PachPen(TM) ultrasonic pachymeter. TonoVet® readings correlated well with manometric IOP (slope = 0.972, r(2) coefficient = 0.955). No significant differences were observed when comparing eyes or operators; however there was a non-significant trend for TonoVet® readings taken in right eyes to be closer to manometric IOP than those taken in left eyes. The TonoVet® had a non-significant tendency to underestimate manometric IOP. TonoVet® readings obtained during the decremental phase of the experiment were significantly closer (p tonometer is a reliable and accurate tool for the measurement of IOP in cynomolgus macaques. This tonometer has several advantages, including portability, ease of use, and brief contact with the corneal surface making topical anesthetics unnecessary. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Comparison of intraocular pressure measurements with different contact tonometers in young healthy persons

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2016-01-01

Full Text Available AIM: To analyze the correlation of Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT, I-Care tonometer and Tono-Pen tonometer results in young healthy persons, and to investigate the influence of central corneal thickness (CCT on intraocular pressure (IOP measurements recorded with these tonometers. METHODS: We conducted a pilot clinical study in 78 eyes of 78 subjects aged 22-28 years old (44 women and 34 men; mean age 23.8±1.19y. IOP was measured using GAT, I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometers, followed by measurements of CCT. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 20.0. RESULTS: The mean IOPs and standard deviation (±SD for GAT, I-Care and Tono-Pen were 15.62±2.281 mm Hg, 16.29±2.726 mm Hg and 16.32±2.393 mm Hg, respectively. The mean CCT was 555.15±29.648 μm. Clear positive correlations between GAT and I-Care, GAT and Tono-Pen, and I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometers were found (r=0.867, P0.05. Both non-gold standard tonometers were affected by CCT; that is, both I-Care and Tono-Pen tonometer values were significantly higher with higher CCT means (>555 μm; MD=−1.282, P555 μm were associated with overestimated IOP values.

Correlations between different tonometries and ocular biometric parameters in patients with primary congenital glaucoma.

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Mendes, Marcio Henrique; Betinjane, Alberto Jorge; Quiroga, Veronica Andrea

2013-01-01

To identify the correlation between the difference of intraocular pressure measurements (IOP) obtained using the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) and three others tonometers (Handheld applanation tonometer - HAT, Dynamic contour tonometer - DCT and Tono-Pen®) with biometric characteristics (corneal diameter, pachymetry, keratometry and axial length) in patients with congenital glaucoma. A cross-sectional study was performed on 46 eyes from 46 patients with congenital glaucoma. IOP measurements were obtained in all patients using GAT, HAT, DCT and Tono-Pen®. Keratometry, pachymetry, biometry and corneal diameter measurements were performed after the IOP measurement. The order of the tonometries was randomized. The correlations between the differences of IOP values of GAT and the other tonometers (Delta-IOP), and the different biometric parameters were studied. Tono-Pen® Delta IOP revealed moderate positive correlation to keratometry (r=0.41, p=0.004). The other Delta-IOPs showed no correlation with any of the biometric characteristics evaluated. IOP differences between GAT (gold standard) and GAT, HAT, DCT or Tono-Pen tonometers seem not to correlate with majority of ocular biometric characteristics. The only exception was the keratometry, which correlated in a positive and moderate way with Tono-Pen® Delta-IOP. This result suggests that the differences of IOP values of Tono-Pen® and GAT increase with the steepness of the cornea.

Evaluation of intraocular pressure according to corneal thickness before and after excimer laser corneal ablation for myopia.

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Hamed-Azzam, Shirin; Briscoe, Daniel; Tomkins, Oren; Shehedeh-Mashor, Raneen; Garzozi, Hanna

2013-08-01

Intraocular pressure is affected by corneal thickness and biomechanics. Following ablative corneal refractive surgery, corneal structural changes occur. The purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between the mean central corneal thickness (CCT) and the change in intraocular pressure measurements following various corneal ablation techniques, using different measurement methods. Two hundred myopic eyes undergoing laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) or photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) were enrolled into a prospective, non-randomized study. Corneal parameters examined included full ocular examination, measurement of CCT, corneal topography, corneal curvature and ocular refractivity. Intraocular pressure measurements were obtained using three different instruments-non-contact tonometer, Goldmann applanation tonometer and TonoPen XL (TonoPen-Central and TonoPen-Peripheral). All measurements were performed pre-operatively and 4 months post-operatively. Post-operative intraocular pressure was significantly lower than pre-operative values, with all instruments (p value tonometer and non-contact tonometer (p value < 0.001, ANOVA). Intraocular pressure readings are significantly reduced following corneal ablation surgery. We determined in our myopic patient cohort that the TonoPen XL intraocular pressure measurement method is the least affected following PRK and LASIK as compared to other techniques.

Specific and total N-nitrosamines formation potentials of nitrogenous micropollutants during chloramination.

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Piazzoli, Andrea; Breider, Florian; Aquillon, Caroline Gachet; Antonelli, Manuela; von Gunten, Urs

2018-05-15

N-nitrosamines are a group of potent human carcinogens that can be formed during oxidative treatment of drinking water and wastewater. Many tertiary and quaternary amines present in consumer products (e.g., pharmaceuticals, personal care and household products) are known to be N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) precursors during chloramination, but the formation of other N-nitrosamines has been rarely studied. This study investigates the specific and total N-nitrosamine (TONO) formation potential (FP) of various precursors from nitrogen-containing micropollutants (chlorhexidine, metformin, benzalkonium chloride and cetyltrimethylammonium chloride) and tertiary and quaternary model amines (trimethyl amine, N,N-dimethylbutyl amine, N,N-dimethylbenzyl amine and tetramethyl ammonium). All the studied nitrogenous micropollutants displayed quantifiable TONO FP, with molar yields in the range 0.04-11.92%. However, the observed TONO pools constituted mostly of uncharacterized species, not included in US-EPA 8270 N-nitrosamines standard mix. Only the quaternary ammonium compound benzalkonium chloride showed quantifiable NDMA FP (0.56% molar yield), however, explaining only a minor fraction of the observed TONO FP. The studied model amines showed molar NDMA yields from 0.10% (trimethyl amine) to 5.05% (N,N-dimethylbenzyl amine), very similar to the molar TONO yields. The comparison of the FPs of micropollutants and model compounds showed that the presence of electron donating functional groups (such as a benzyl group) in tertiary and quaternary amine precursors leads to a higher formation of NDMA and uncharacterized N-nitrosamines, respectively. LC-qTOF screening of a list of proposed N-nitrosamine structures has enabled to identify a novel N-nitrosamine (N-nitroso-N-methyldodecylamine) from the chloramination of benzalkonium chloride. This finding supports the hypothesis that different functional groups in quaternary amines can act as leaving groups during chloramination and

Accuracy of the new ICare rebound tonometer vs. other portable tonometers in healthy eyes.

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García-Resúa, Carlos; González-Meijome, José M; Gilino, Jorge; Yebra-Pimentel, Eva

2006-02-01

The ICare (Tiolat Oy, Helsinki, Finland) is a new portable tonometer that measures intraocular pressure (IOP) with a new rebound method, in which a very light probe is used to make momentary contact with the cornea in slow motion. The purpose of this study is to assess the accuracy of the ICare IOP measurements by comparing them against other portable tonometers: Perkins applanation tonometer and Tono-Pen XL digital tonometer (Medtronic Solan, Jacksonville, FL). Sixty-five young subjects were assessed with each of the tonometers. ICare tonometry was performed first, followed by Perkins applanation tonometry and Tono-Pen XL in a random order. Regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the Perkins tonometer and the remaining tonometers used in this study. Tonometers were also compared by plotting the difference between the methods against the mean. The hypothesis of zero bias was examined by a paired t test and the 95% limits of agreement (LoA) were calculated. ICare and Tono-Pen XL significantly overestimate IOP when compared with Perkins applanation tonometry. The mean of the difference between Perkins and ICare and Perkins and Tono-Pen XL was (mean +/- standard deviation) -3.35 +/- 2.28 mm Hg and -2.78 +/- 2.53 mm Hg, respectively. The 95% LoA between Perkins tonometry and ICare tonometry were between -7.81 and +1.12 and between Perkins tonometry and Tono-Pen XL tonometry between -7.74 and +2.18. Compared with Perkins tonometry, the ICare tonometer allows clinicians to estimate IOP with a portable, rapid, and noninvasive method with similar reliability to that offered by Tono-Pen XL. Clinicians should be aware of the systematic overestimation of IOP with the ICare. Further research is needed to evaluate the performance of rebound tonometry in populations with higher IOP and assess the reliability of this technique in the early detection and follow up of glaucomatous patients.

Application of virtual reality technology to activities for offering information to the general public in the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory Project

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Saito, Hiroshi; Kawase, Keiichi; Sugihara, Kozo; Yamamoto, Junta

2000-01-01

The Tono Geoscience Center is carrying out the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory Project (MIU Project), as part of its scientific research program, in Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture. We believe that the public and especially the local residents should have a precise understanding of the MIU project. Therefore, to provide information we have used virtual reality (VR) technology in the project since 1996. Software to introduce both the MIU Project and the geology of the Tono district has been completed. The Tono district is characterized by uranium ore deposits, and by clay deposits which are used by the pottery industry. Software with some amusement value, such as hot spring drilling, has also been completed. We plan further software development of VR technology to increase the feeling of realism. (author)

Magnetic susceptibility measurements of boring cores obtained from regional hydrological study project

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Hasegawa, Ken

2010-02-01

We measured the magnetic susceptibility of boring cores obtained from the Regional Hydrological Study Project to interpret the aeromagnetic survey data which was carried out in Tono area with about 40km square surrounding Tono Geoscience Center. The result of measurements indicates that the magnetic susceptibility of the Toki Granite is not distributed uniformly and the maximum value becomes two orders in magnitude larger than its minimum value. (author)

VARIABILIDADE ESPACIAL DA PRODUTIVIDADE DE SORGO E DE ATRIBUTOS DO SOLO NA REGIÃO DO ECÓTONO CERRADO-PANTANAL, MS

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2015-04-01

Full Text Available O Sorghum bicolor (L. Moech é uma importante forrageira de alta produção, que cresce no cenário brasileiro ainda de forma lenta em substituição ao cultivo de milho safrinha. A cultura do sorgo seria alternativa no período da seca na produção de silagem para o período das águas; contudo, o crescimento e desenvolvimento das plantas pode ser influenciado por alterações nos atributos do solo, como textura, porosidade e estrutura do solo. O objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar e caracterizar a dependência e variabilidade espacial entre atributos do solo e a cultura do sorgo forrageiro, em um Planossolo Hidromórfico no ecótono Cerrado-Pantanal. Para tanto, estimaram-se a produtividade de matérias verde e seca de forragem (MVF e MSF de sorgo forrageiro e os atributos do solo, como macroporosidade (Ma, microporosidade (Mi, porosidade total (Pt, diâmetro médio geométrico, diâmetro médio ponderado, índice de estabilidade de agregados (IEA e teor de carbono orgânico total do solo (COT, em duas profundidades: 1 (0,00-0,10 m e 2 (0,10-0,20 m. Em relação à malha geoestatística, foram realizadas 50 coletas de atributos de planta e solo em 40 ha. Isso possibilitou detectar a elevada variabilidade espacial dos atributos de planta (MVF e MSF e também os atributos do solo que mais variaram espacialmente. Com relação às variáveis que apresentaram dependência espacial, o coeficiente de determinação (r2 decresceu na seguinte ordem: IEA1, silte2, Ma1, Pt1, areia2, silte1, MSF, argila1, MVF e IEA2. Com isso, verificou-se que IEA1 apresentou o melhor ajuste semivariográfico (r2 = 0,926, com alcance de 677,0 m, e o avaliador da dependência espacial (50,6 % moderado. O silte1, porém, evidenciou o menor alcance (111,0 m e, assim, recomenda-se que em estudos posteriores o alcance mínimo a ser adotado, para esse tipo de avaliação, não deve ser inferior a esse valor em Planossolo Hidromórfico sob preparo convencional. A correla

Florestas estacionais e áreas de ecótono no estado do Tocantins, Brasil: parâmetros estruturais, classificação das fitofisionomias florestais e subsídios para conservação Seasonal forests and ecotone areas in the state of Tocantins, Brazil: structure, classification and guidelines for conservation

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Ricardo Flores Haidar

2013-09-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever a riqueza, estrutura e diversidade de espécies arbóreas em áreas de Floresta Estacional e ecótono (Floresta Estacional/Floresta Ombrófila no estado do Tocantins, buscando subsídios para a conservação, manejo florestal, compensação de reserva legal e recuperação ambiental, além de discutir as identidades fitogeográficas em comparação com outras florestas do Brasil. Em 18 bacias hidrográficas, conduziu-se amostragem da vegetação arbórea (DAP > 5 cm de 22 áreas (amostras por meio do inventário de 477 parcelas de 400 m². Foram elaboradas análises de classificação pelo método TWINSPAN, em duas escalas distintas. A primeira avaliou a diversidade beta entre as parcelas amostradas no estado do Tocantins e a segunda buscou analisar a similaridade das florestas do Tocantins em relação a outras florestas do bioma Cerrado e suas áreas de tensão ecológica. As florestas amostradas apresentaram ampla variação em termos de riqueza (33 a 243 espécies, densidade (486 a 1.179 ind.ha-1, área basal (14,04 e 37,49 m².ha-1, índices de diversidade (H´ = 2,75 a 4,59 e de equabilidade (J´= 0,72 a 0,86. As análises de classificação convergiram para resultados comuns, identificando quatro ambientes dissimilares em termos florísticos e estruturais no estado do Tocantins: Floresta Estacional Decidual, Floresta Estacional Semidecidual, ecótono Floresta Estacional Semidecidual/Floresta Ombrófila e ecótono Floresta Estacional Decidual/Floresta Ombrófila. A fim de manter a diversidade de plantas e de ambientes na região de transição Floresta Amazônica e Cerrado, sugere-se que o processo de criação de unidades de conservação no estado do Tocantins deva ser intensificado e tenha como base para seleção das áreas critérios biogeográficos.The purpose of this study was to describe the richness, structure and diversity of tree species occurring in seasonally dry forests and some ecotone

Intraocular pressure measurements in relation to head position and through soft contact lenses: comparison of three portable instruments.

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Klein, Ainat; Shemesh, Gabi; Loewenstein, Anat; Kurtz, Shimon

2011-01-01

to compare the reproducibility of three portable instruments-the Tono-Pen tonometer (Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments, Depew, NY), the Phosphene tonometer (Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY), and the TERT (Through Eyelid Russian Tonometer; Rjazan State Instrument Making, Rjazan, Russia)-in the measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP) with and without soft contact lenses and in different head positions. twenty-six eyes of healthy volunteers were examined by the three instruments while the subjects were sitting, recumbent, and hyperextending their heads, and with and without contact lenses. IOP measurements were compared and the effects of head position and presence of contact lenses on the resultant values were analyzed. the average difference between the recumbent and sitting positions was 3.56, 2.68, and 2.62 mm Hg for the Tono-Pen tonometer, Phosphene tonometer, and TERT, respectively. There was an increase of 5.60, 2.78, and 2.63 mm Hg in hyperextension compared to sitting for the Tono-Pen tonometer, Phosphene tonometer, and TERT, respectively. The difference in the IOP values obtained in the presence and absence of therapeutic contact lens for the three instruments in the three positions was between -1.23 and +1.47 mm Hg. IOP measurements of bedridden patients are only slightly higher than those of sitting patients except for the Tono-Pen tonometer in the hyperextension position. The presence of contact lenses does not affect IOP values obtained by the three evaluated instruments.

A comparison of intraocular pressure values obtained with the Tono-Pachymeter NT530P, iCare® rebound tonometer and Goldmann applanation tonometer

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N. Rampersad

2011-12-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this study was to compare the intraocular pressure (IOP values measured with the Tono-Pachymeter NT530P (Tonopachy™ and the iCare® rebound tonometer (iCare® with those obtained by the Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT. The right eyes of 105 subjects aged 18 to 82 years (mean age = 29.27 ± 14.67 years were assessed with the three tonometers. Central corneal thickness (CCT was measured first using the Tonopachy™ and then IOP was measured by Tonopachy™, iCare® and GAT. The data was analyzed with descriptive statistics, paired  t-test, correlation and regression analysis. The Bland-Altman method of analysis was used to evaluate agreements between the sets of data from the three devices. The CCT values ranged from 440 µm to 606 µm (mean= 518.49 ± 33.01 µm. There was little or no correlation between CCT and IOP for any of the instruments used in this study (r = 0.29 for Tonopachy™, r = 0.22 for iCare®, r = 0.17 for GAT. The mean IOP measured with the Tonopachy™ was 14.31 ± 3.57 mmHg (range 8.7 mmHg to 31 mmHg and 16.64 ± 4.38 mmHg (range 8 mmHg to 32 mmHg using the iCare®. The mean IOP measured with the GAT was 14.79 ± 3.09 mmHg (range 8.7 mmHg to 29.7 mmHg. Using the Bland-Altman method, the upper and lower limits of agreement between the Tonopachy™ and GAT, iCare® and GAT, iCare® and Tonopachy™ were 5.1 mmHg and –4.2 mmHg, 8.6 mmHg and –4.9 mmHg, 7.5 mmHg and –2.8 mmHg respectively. In 79.1% of the eyes studied, the mean IOP difference between Tonopachy™ and GAT was less than 3 mmHg and in 20.9% of the eyes, the difference was greater than 3 mmHg. However, mean IOP differences of greater than 3 mmHg were obtained by iCare® in comparison with GAT (40% and Tonopachy™ (34.3% respectively. Findings of this study suggest that the Tonopachy™ yielded IOP readings that were consistent with those of GAT values while iCare® yielded higher IOP values compared to both GAT and Tonopachy™. (S Afr

Evaluation of monkey intraocular pressure by rebound tonometer

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Yu, Wenhan; Cao, Guiqun; Qiu, Jinghua; Ma, Jia; Li, Ni; Yu, Man; Yan, Naihong; Chen, Lei; Pang, Iok-Hou

2009-01-01

Purpose To evaluate the usefulness of the TonoVet™ rebound tonometer in measuring intraocular pressure (IOP) of monkeys. Methods The accuracy of the TonoVet™ rebound tonometer was determined in cannulated eyes of anesthetized rhesus monkeys where IOP was controlled by adjusting the height of a connected perfusate reservoir. To assess the applicability of the equipment through in vivo studies, the diurnal fluctuation of IOP and effects of IOP-lowering compounds were evaluated in monkeys. Results IOP readings generated by the TonoVet™ tonometer correlated very well with the actual pressure in the cannulated monkey eye. The linear correlation had a slope of 0.922±0.014 (mean±SEM, n=4), a y-intercept of 3.04±0.61, and a correlation coefficient of r2=0.97. Using this method, diurnal IOP fluctuation of the rhesus monkey was demonstrated. The tonometer was also able to detect IOP changes induced by pharmacologically active compounds. A single topical ocular instillation (15 μg) of the rho kinase inhibitor, H1152, produced a 5–6 mmHg reduction (pmonkey eye. PMID:19898690

LLNL Underground-Coal-Gasification Project. Quarterly progress report, July-September 1981

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Stephens, D.R.; Clements, W. (eds.)

1981-11-09

We have continued our laboratory studies of forward gasification in small blocks of coal mounted in 55-gal drums. A steam/oxygen mixture is fed into a small hole drilled longitudinally through the center of the block, the coal is ignited near the inlet and burns toward the outlet, and the product gases come off at the outlet. Various diagnostic measurements are made during the course of the burn, and afterward the coal block is split open so that the cavity can be examined. Development work continues on our mathematical model for the small coal block experiments. Preparations for the large block experiments at a coal outcrop in the Tono Basin of Washington State have required steadily increasing effort with the approach of the scheduled starting time for the experiments (Fall 1981). Also in preparation is the deep gasification experiment, Tono 1, planned for another site in the Tono Basin after the large block experiments have been completed. Wrap-up work continues on our previous gasification experiments in Wyoming. Results of the postburn core-drilling program Hoe Creek 3 are presented here. Since 1976 the Soviets have been granted four US patents on various aspects of the underground coal gasification process. These patents are described here, and techniques of special interest are noted. Finally, we include ten abstracts of pertinent LLNL reports and papers completed during the quarter.

Intraocular pressure readings obtained through soft contact lenses using four types of tonometer.

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Takenaka, Joji; Kunihara, Eriko; Rimayanti, Ulfah; Tanaka, Junko; Kaneko, Makoto; Kiuchi, Yoshiaki

2015-01-01

To compare the reliability and accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP) measured while wearing soft contact lenses (SCLs) using a non-contact tonometer (NCT), Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT), iCare rebound tonometer (RBT) and the Tono-Pen XL. Twenty-six healthy subjects were examined. The IOP was measured using NCT, GAT, RBT, and the Tono-Pen XL, while the subjects wore SCLs -5.00 D, -0.50 D and +5.00 D. Bland-Altman plots and a regression analysis were used to compare the IOPs obtained with those instruments and the IOPs of the naked eyes measured using GAT (the standard IOPs in this study). The IOPs obtained by the Tono-Pen XL while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D, -0.50 D, and +5.00 D SCLs were significantly higher than those of the naked eyes obtained using GAT. RBT showed that the IOPs were similar to the GAT standard IOPs under all conditions. The IOPs measured with NCT and GAT while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D and -0.50 D SCLs were similar to the GAT standard IOPs. The IOPs obtained with RBT and NCT while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D and -0.50 D SCLs exhibited a good correlation with the standard IOPs. The NCT and RBT are best when measuring IOP through hydrogel SCLs.

Lexikos - Vol 6 (1996)

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Using Learner Corpora for L2 Lexicography: Information on Collocational Errors for EFL learners' · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Yukio Tono, 116-132 ...

The FY1997 meeting for information exchange of geoscience research. Collection of literature

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1997-09-01

The Tono Geoscience Center of PNC has been conducting research programs aiming at underground disposal of radioactive wastes. This document is the collection of summary papers presented to the meeting which was held at Toki, Gifu Prefecture on July 17 - 18, 1997. Total of 33 papers are given under two main themes: (1) research on long-term stability of geologic environment and (2) research on characteristics of geologic environment. The second theme is further divided into the four sub-themes: (a) investigation in the Tono Mine, (b) research of broad underground water flow, (c) in-situ test at Kamaishi and (d) development of survey techniques and equipment. Seven papers are contributed to the first theme and 21 papers to the second: five papers to (a), six to (b), seven to (c) and six to (d), including three of the poster session. (H. Yokoo)

Señales en el agua

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Helcías Martan Góngora

1964-11-01

Full Text Available La lluvia fue siempre compañera de la soledad. En su ámbito de música se mueve el pensamiento con monótono ritmo y el alma encuentra su centro de gravedad, mientras dura el imperio de su amada caricia.

Marketing analysis support system; Marketing bunseki shien system

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2000-01-10

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., in collaboration with Shitashion Japan and Arthur Andersen Ltd., developed a 'marketing analysis support system' which integrally analyzes evaluation factors of various dimensions explaining consumers' purchasing behaviors and which supports business for the efficient operation of product development and demand prediction. This system breaks down products into each evaluation factor from psychological and physical viewpoints, and carries out various kinds of multivariate analysis, thereby making it easy to understand visually, for example, what evaluation factors decide relative positional relations between evaluation factors or between products as well as the position of a product in the whole. Further, more precise marketing analysis and prediction become possible by visually grasping blank areas of products, extent of competition, distribution of products, composition of product series, etc. (translated by NEDO)

Síncope inducido por el ejercicio. Reporte de un caso

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Andrés Alvarado, MD

2011-03-01

En sujetos que entrenan de manera frecuente, el tono vagal aumentado es una condición adaptativa común que a veces puede causar síncope cardioinhibitorio asociado con el ejercicio, cuya presentación puede variar desde bradiarritmias hasta asistolia, por lo cual constituye un reto diagnóstico.

Study on improved procedure for determination of three dimensional distributions of the initial rock stresses. 3

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Mizuta, Yoshiaki

2004-02-01

In the fiscal year of 2003, our committee achieved the following work items during the contract period, from September 3rd, 2003 to February 13th, 2004. The more accurate numerical data with respect to the geological/geometrical conditions including the fault were provided from Tono Geoscience Center and the numerical models by Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Difference Method (FDM) and Boundary Element Method (BEM) were built taking those strata data into account. For small region modeling by FEM, three layers models, Shoumasama model and Tono-Shoumasama model, as well as Tono Mine model, were constructed, and each strain state at the far field boundary was determined. In order to get better agreement in local stress states with the measured values, a far field strain state was determined to the modified model in which material properties of upper granite and lower granite are different. In intermediate region modeling by FDM, actual strata data was taken into account, whereas strata boundary was assumed to be horizontal in former modeling, and far field stress field was analyzed. Intermediate region modeling by BEM was also carried out and far field stress state was determined. In wide region modeling by FEM, the fault was build in the model and fault slip was taken into account, and evaluation of strain state at the far field boundary was carried out for inhomogeneous rock including fault. It was proposed to output three-dimensional distribution of the maximum shear stress coefficients in order to advance three-dimensional modeling. It will make clear effect of shape, scale and property of the fault on stress state characteristic. This report describes minutely the results of the studies mentioned above. (author)

Is Lexicography making progress? on dictionary use and language ...

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This article sets out to explore the ways native speakers as well as foreign language learners use dictionaries and the strategies dictionary users adopt in the language acquisition process. The basis for this article is a corpus of six books (in chronological order Atkins (Ed.) 1998, Nesi 2000, Tono 2001, Humblé 2001, ...

Excavation of shafts and research galleries at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU). Construction progress report, fiscal year 2006

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2012-12-01

This progress report presents an outline compilation of construction activities, primary tasks performed, construction progress and problems reported in Fiscal Year 2006. The outline of construction activities is a summary based on the scope of work planned in 2006. The main activities are based on the Tono Geoscience Center weekly reports. The construction progress is based on the planned and actual schedules and the Tono Geoscience Center weekly reports. The problems reported are based on accident reports, natural disasters, nonconformance and defects recorded by the safety manager of the Geoscience Facility Construction Section. Construction plan of the MIU construction project No.2 (started on July 1, 2006) is described in this report. Regarding the plan and actual performance of MIU construction project No.1 (completed on June 30, 2006), it is described in “Construction Progress Report from Fiscal Year 2002 to Fiscal Year 2005(including a part of Fiscal Year 2006)”. The following appendices are attached: construction plan, risk assessment reports, the photos of construction activities and technical specifications of the construction project No.2. (author)

Assessment of heterogeneous geological environment using geostatistical techniques

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Toida, Masaru; Suyama, Yasuhiro; Shiogama, Yukihiro; Atsumi, Hiroyuki; Abe, Yasunori; Furuichi, Mitsuaki

2003-02-01

'Geoscientific' research at Tono are developing site investigation and assessment techniques in geological environment. One of their important themes is to establish rational methodology to reduce uncertainties associated with the understanding of geological environment, which often exhibits significant heterogeneity. Purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate uncertainties associated with the understanding of geological environment. Because it is useful to guide designing effective site investigation techniques to reduce the uncertainty. For this, a methodology of the uncertainty analysis concerning the heterogeneous geological environment has been developed. In this report the methodology has also been tested through an exercise attempted in Tono area to demonstrate its applicability. This report summarizes as follows: 1) The exercise shows that the methodology considered 'variability' and 'ignorance' can demonstrate its applicability at three-dimensional case. 2) The exercise shows that the methodology can identity and evaluate uncertainties concerning ground water flow associated with performance assessment. 3) Based on sensitivity analyses, it is possible for the methodology to support designs of the following stage investigations to reduce the uncertainties efficiently. (author)

Parasitism of Cuterebra sp. (Diptera: Oestridae s.l. on rodents of Central Panama Parasitismo de Cuterebra sp. (Diptera: Oestridae s.l. en roedores de Panamá Central

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Sergio E. Bermúdez C.

2010-04-01

Full Text Available In this study, which we carried out between January 2007 and July 2008 on populations of 3 species of wild mammals in Tonosí, Los Santos province, Panama, we report the presence of larvae of Cuterebra sp. parasitizing Zygodontomys brevicauda, Liomys adspersus, and Oligoryzomys fulvescens; the prevalence values recorded in these rodent species were 1.77, 2.15, and 1.17, respectively. This is the first record of Cuterebra sp. as parasite of rodents in Panama, and L. adspersus represents a new host record.Entre enero 2007 y julio 2008 se desarrolló una investigación en las poblaciones de roedores silvestres de la localidad de Tonosí (Los Santos, Panamá central, encontrándose larvas de Cuterebra spp. parasitando a los roedores Zygodontomys brevicauda, Liomys adspersus y Oligoryzomys fulvescens, con una prevalencia de 1.77%, 2.15% y 1.71%, respectivamente. Este es el primer reporte de Cuterebra sp., parasitando roedores en Panamá, y el primero en presentar a L. adspersus como hospedero.

Cacciatori di anime | Maggiari | Italian Studies in Southern Africa ...

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“Tuo padre sta passando oltre…” disse l'uomo della medicina abbassando il tono della voce. “Non gli è rimasto molto da vivere…” È vellutata quella sua frase, piena di affettuosa compassione. E non mi sorprende. Questo signore così riservato adorava mio padre. Lo ammirava per essere tornato dalle terre degli antenati ...

Los nuevos tratamientos de la esquizofrenia: estudios comparativos de métodos y resultados

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Julio Manrique

1939-08-01

Full Text Available Después de que el método de SAKEL se empleó con éxito en el tratamiento del sindrome esquizofrénico, el advenimiento de la tono-clono terapia de V. MEDUNA originó la comparación de los resultados obtenidos, para decidir cual de los procedimientos habia obtenido mayores éxitos.

La audiometría de tonos puros por conducción aérea en la consulta de enfermería del trabajo The pure-tone audiometry via air conduction testing in the occupational health nursing visit

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Antonio Javier Cortés Aguilera

2012-06-01

Full Text Available La Audiometría de tonos puros por conducción aérea es una exploración complementaria que la enfermería del trabajo ejecuta de manera habitual en la consulta de salud laboral para la vigilancia de la salud de los trabajadores. Todo ello, en función de los riesgos profesionales a los que esté expuesto el trabajador objeto de estudio y con una periodicidad relacionada con dicha circunstancia y las condiciones individuales del mismo. Sus resultados tienen como consecuencia la toma de decisiones y, por ello, el enfermero especialista debe manejar los conocimientos necesarios para que el resultado obtenido sea válido y reproducible. En el presente artículo se definen los criterios de aplicación, las características de la cabina y el audiómetro, los conocimientos mínimos que debe manejar el enfermero, los requisitos de la consulta y los previos a la exploración, la técnica de ensayo y la descripción de los métodos ascendente y por encuadre, el registro audiométrico y símbolos usados universalmente, y además se detallan los contenidos del mantenimiento y la calibración a los que se debe someter el equipo de exploración.The Pure-Tone Audiometry via air conduction is a complementary examination which the Occupational Health Nursing carries out frequently in the visit of Occupational Health in order to watch the workers´ health. All that is according to professional risks to which the worker, object of study, is exposed. Such examination is done as often as that circumstance occurs and depending on the worker´s individual conditions. The results have as consequence the decision-making and therefore the specialist nurse must have the necessary knowledge in order to obtain valid and reproducible results. It is proposed in the present article to present the application criteria, the characteristics of the audiometry cabin and the audiometer and the minimum knowledge the health nurse must have. Furthermore, the requirements to visit the

A redução do ditongo [ãw] postônico na morfologia verbal do português brasileiro: uma abordagem baseada no uso = [ãw] Diphthong reduction in the verbal morphology of Brazilian Portuguese: a usage-based approach

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Silva, Thaïs Cristófaro

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo investigar a redução do ditongo [ãw] postônico na morfologia verbal do português brasileiro (PB. Foram considerados verbos da primeira conjugação nos seguintes tempos verbais: 1 presente do indicativo: cantam; 2 pretérito perfeito do indicativo: cantaram e 3 pretérito imperfeito do indicativo: cantavam. Os resultados indicam que está em curso no PB um amplo mecanismo que visa reorganizar o paradigma verbal para um menor número de terminações verbais (Duarte, 1996, e que tal mecanismo é implementado através de concessões e restrições da organização gramatical. Assim, a redução do ditongo [ãw] átono na morfologia verbal se contextualiza na fonologia do PB através da redução segmental em posições prosodicamente fracas. Os verbos mais frequentes são afetados em maiores índices em decorrência da motivação fonética da redução segmental em contexto átono, e regularizando o paradigma verbal por nivelamento analógico

Evaluación de ligamiento de marcadores STR al trastorno afectivo bipolar en las regiones cromosómicas 18p12, 18q22-23, 21q22 y 12q23

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Andrés Ruiz Linares

2001-04-01

Full Text Available El Trastorno Afectivo Bipolar (TAB se caracteriza por episodios
fluctuantes y cíclicos de oscilación del estado de ánimo o tono energético vital, de días, semanas o meses de duración, que pueden ir desde el apagamiento vital global o depresión hasta la exaltación vital global o manía.

Rationale for the Coadministration of Albendazole and Ivermectin to Humans for Malaria Parasite Transmission Control

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2014-07-28

Exp Parasitol 88: 154–156. 86. Dow GS, O’Hara AJ, Newton SC, Reynoldson JA, Thompson RCA, 2000. Plasmodium berghei: the antimalarial activity of...Trichuris trichiura but not hookworm.18 Ivermectin exerts strongactivity againstAscaris,moderate activity againstTrichuris, andminimal tono effect against...programs and supported by global public health funding agencies. Albendazole belongs to the class of benzimidazole anthel- mintics that are active against

How to Improve the ROK and U.S. Military Alliance Against North Korea’s Threats to Cyberspace: Lessons From NATO’s Defense Cooperation

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2017-12-01

North Korea’s policy. For instance, North Korea has been interested in developing technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has made efforts to...No. 8 NPT Nuclear Proliferation Treaty OSINT Open Source intelligence RGB Reconnaissance General Bureau (of North Korea) ROK Republic of Korea... Cybersecurity is linked directly to national security in the ROK. Although challenging for the military, as the primary target of adversaries, the

Intraocular pressure readings obtained through soft contact lenses using four types of tonometer

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2015-10-01

Full Text Available Joji Takenaka,1 Eriko Kunihara,1 Ulfah Rimayanti,2 Junko Tanaka,3 Makoto Kaneko,4 Yoshiaki Kiuchi1 1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; 2Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UIN Alauddin Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia; 3Department of Epidemiology, Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan; 4Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Purpose: To compare the reliability and accuracy of intraocular pressure (IOP measured while wearing soft contact lenses (SCLs using a non-contact tonometer (NCT, Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT, iCare rebound tonometer (RBT and the Tono-Pen XL.Methods: Twenty-six healthy subjects were examined. The IOP was measured using NCT, GAT, RBT, and the Tono-Pen XL, while the subjects wore SCLs -5.00 D, -0.50 D and +5.00 D. Bland–Altman plots and a regression analysis were used to compare the IOPs obtained with those instruments and the IOPs of the naked eyes measured using GAT (the standard IOPs in this study.Results: The IOPs obtained by the Tono-Pen XL while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D, -0.50 D, and +5.00 D SCLs were significantly higher than those of the naked eyes obtained using GAT. RBT showed that the IOPs were similar to the GAT standard IOPs under all conditions. The IOPs measured with NCT and GAT while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D and -0.50 D SCLs were similar to the GAT standard IOPs. The IOPs obtained with RBT and NCT while the subjects were wearing -5.00 D and -0.50 D SCLs exhibited a good correlation with the standard IOPs.Conclusion: The NCT and RBT are best when measuring IOP through hydrogel SCLs. Keywords: soft contact lens, intraocular pressure, rebound tonometer, non-contact tonometer

Environmental effects on metal structures and connection in NFS waste tanks

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1977-12-01

The integrity of the existing NFS high-level waste tanks was evaluated, based upon information available in the literature. Failure modes were identified and analyzed. The occurrence of stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) was established as the most probable failure mechanism. Factors that would minimize the occurrence of SCC were identified as post-welding stress relief and control of the NO - 3 -to-NO - 2 ratio within the waste

Analysis of deregulation models; Denryoku shijo jiyuka model no bunseki

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Yajima, M. [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)

1996-04-01

Trends toward power market deregulation were investigated in Japan and 16 other countries, and various deregulation models were examined and evaluated for their merits and demerits. There are four basic models, that is, franchise bidding model, competitive bidding in power generation model, wholesale wheeling or retail wheeling model, and mandatory pool or voluntary pool model. Power market deregulation has been a global tendency since the second half of the 1970s, with various models adopted by different countries. Out of the above-said models, it is the retail wheeling model and pool models (open access models) that allow the final customer to select power suppliers, and the number of countries adopting these models is increasing. The said models are characterized in that the disintegration of the vertical transmission-distribution integration (separation of distribution service and retail supply service) and the liberation of the retail market are simultaneously accomplished. The pool models, in particular, are enjoying favor because conditions for fair competition have already been prepared and because it is believed high in efficiency. In Japan and France, where importance is attached to atomic power generation, the competitive bidding model is adopted as a means to harmonize the introduction of competition into the source development and power generation sectors. 7 refs., 4 tabs.

Polineuropatia associada a hipotireoidismo em cães: Relato de seis casos

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2008-08-01

Full Text Available Seis Dobermans Pinscher, entre seis e oito anos de idade, foram encaminhados ao Hospital Veterinário da Faculdade de Ciências Veterinárias da Universidade de Buenos Aires. O exame neurológico revelou tetraparesia com incapacidade para andar, diminuição do tono muscular e de reflexos miotáticos em todos os cães. Os níveis de colesterol, creatina quinase e fosfatase alcalina encontravam-se de moderada a acentuadamente elevados. As velocidades de condução nervosa do nervo tibial estavam diminuídas em todos os cães. Os níveis séricos basais de T4 livre e TSH foram determinados por radioimunoensaio e, embora os valores de T4 livre estivessem dentro dos limites de normalidade, em todos os cães o TSH estava elevado. Baseado nestes resultados, diagnosticou-se hipotireoidismo e iniciou-se uma suplementação oral com levotiroxina (T4. Duas semanas após o início do tratamento todos os pacientes tiveram melhora clínica e, dentro de um mês a locomoção, o tono muscular e os reflexos medulares tornaram-se normais.

Impact of Nitrification on the Formation of N-Nitrosamines and Halogenated Disinfection Byproducts within Distribution System Storage Facilities.

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Zeng, Teng; Mitch, William A

2016-03-15

Distribution system storage facilities are a critical, yet often overlooked, component of the urban water infrastructure. This study showed elevated concentrations of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), total N-nitrosamines (TONO), regulated trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs), 1,1-dichloropropanone (1,1-DCP), trichloroacetaldehyde (TCAL), haloacetonitriles (HANs), and haloacetamides (HAMs) in waters with ongoing nitrification as compared to non-nitrifying waters in storage facilities within five different chloraminated drinking water distribution systems. The concentrations of NDMA, TONO, HANs, and HAMs in the nitrifying waters further increased upon application of simulated distribution system chloramination. The addition of a nitrifying biofilm sample collected from a nitrifying facility to its non-nitrifying influent water led to increases in N-nitrosamine and halogenated DBP formation, suggesting the release of precursors from nitrifying biofilms. Periodic treatment of two nitrifying facilities with breakpoint chlorination (BPC) temporarily suppressed nitrification and reduced precursor levels for N-nitrosamines, HANs, and HAMs, as reflected by lower concentrations of these DBPs measured after re-establishment of a chloramine residual within the facilities than prior to the BPC treatment. However, BPC promoted the formation of halogenated DBPs while a free chlorine residual was maintained. Strategies that minimize application of free chlorine while preventing nitrification are needed to control DBP precursor release in storage facilities.

Un caso de leucismo en larvas de Phyllomedusa bicolor (Anura: Hylidae) reproducidas en cautiverio

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Adán Villagarcia Olmeño; Enrique Cuevas

2014-01-01

En este artículo se reporta el primer caso de leucismo en Phyllomedusa bicolor (Boaddaert 1772). La larva leucística descrita fue resultado de un trabajo de manejo reproductivo en cautiverio, y fue fotografiada 97 días después de su eclosión, mostrando una coloración blanca uniforme a excepción de los reflejos dorados de los flancos y el tono oscuro de los ojos.

Designing Users : The Social Construction of Users in Product Design

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Kadanoff, David Bradley

2014-01-01

The technological systems in our society are widespread and structured in complex ways. To comprehend the construction of these systems, it is necessary to understand who has opportunities to influence them and how. Previous scholarship in the sociology of technology has provided some analysis of the roles of designers and users in constructing technology. However, this research tends to oversimplify the nature of design work and portrays designers and users in isolation, having little- to-no...

Un caso de leucismo en larvas de Phyllomedusa bicolor (Anura: Hylidae reproducidas en cautiverio

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Adán Villagarcia Olmeño

2014-12-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se reporta el primer caso de leucismo en Phyllomedusa bicolor (Boaddaert 1772. La larva leucística descrita fue resultado de un trabajo de manejo reproductivo en cautiverio, y fue fotografiada 97 días después de su eclosión, mostrando una coloración blanca uniforme a excepción de los reflejos dorados de los flancos y el tono oscuro de los ojos.

Un caso de leucismo en larvas de Phyllomedusa bicolor (Anura: Hylidae reproducidas en cautiverio

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Adan Villagarcía Olmeño

2015-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se reporta el primer caso de leucismo en Phyllomedusa bicolor (Boaddaert 1772. La larva leucística descrita fue resultado de un trabajo de manejo reproductivo en cautiverio, y fue fotografiada 97 días después de su eclosión, mostrando una coloración blanca uniforme a excepción de los reflejos dorados de los flancos y el tono oscuro de los ojos.

Hydraulic tests for the Excavation Disturbed Zone in NATM drift of North Extension

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Matsuoka, Eiken

1997-03-01

Investigation for characterization of rock properties of the Excavation Disturbed Zone (EDZ) were carried out in NATM drift of North Extension in the Tono Mine. As a part of this investigation, hydraulic tests were performed by means of the hydraulic measuring instrument, which had been developed by PNC Tono Geoscience Center. The purpose of this tests is to characterize the change in hydraulic properties of the EDZ caused by drift excavation using machine (boom header). The hydraulic tests were performed in the burials MH-1,2,3, in which hydraulic tests had been performed before the drift excavation in 1994. The test results indicate that the measured values of pore water pressure have decreased after excavation of the drift. The values ranged from -0.037 kgf/cm 2 to 0.039 kgf/cm 2 . The measured hydraulic conductivities ranged from 2.2*10 -11 cm/s to 9.1*10 -11 cm/s for mud stone and from 2.8*10 -9 cm/s to 2.4*10 -7 cm/s for conglomerate. The measured hydraulic conductivities for mud stone are below the lower limit of the instrument, and the change in the hydraulic conductivities for conglomerate is little. The hydraulic conductivities for conglomerate and mad stone (reference values) are interpreted. The change in hydraulic conductivities measured before and after excavation of the drift is insignificant. (author)

Analysis for probability of irradiance fluctuation; Nissha hendo kakuritsu no bunseki

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Minowa, J; Kurokawa, K [Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo (Japan); Otani, K; Sakuta, K [Electrochemical Laboratory, Tsukuba (Japan)

1996-10-27

Distribution of probabilities of solar radiation fluctuation was examined to learn the fluctuation in photovoltaic power generation efficiency for the purpose of improving on the generation system. The measuring setup comprised one base station and nine terminal stations. The terminal stations were arrayed in lattice so that a 4km{times}4km-large area would be covered. The standard deviation in solar radiation fluctuation at an observation spot ANNE stayed constant at approximately 0.1kW/m{sup 2} at all observation hours. In the vicinity of a clearness index range of 0.5-0.6 (a higher index showing a clearer weather) in the daytime, the index fluctuated very much, predicting a half-clear sky with scattered cloud. In the range of 0.2-0.3, fluctuation was small. In the range of 0.6-0.7, fluctuation was small and solar radiation was stable under the clear sky. The scope of fluctuation in the areal average is smaller than that in the average at each of the terminal stations, which is explained by the even-out effect. This means that, if multiple PV systems concentratedly introduced into one region are appropriately coordinated, the outputs from the individual PV systems that are naturally inconsistent are evened out and that the reliability of the network as a whole is consequently enhanced. 5 refs., 7 figs., 1 tab.

A comparative study of central corneal thickness (CCT) and intraocular pressure (IOP) in University of KwaZulu-Natal students of Black and Indian ethnicity*

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Z. Sardiwalla; D. Moodley; T. Ndawonde; A. Madikizela; N. Ngobese; N. Thobela

2012-01-01

Thisstudy compared central corneal thickness (CCT) and intraocular pressure (IOP) of Black and Indian students from the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. Two hundred (100 Black and 100 Indi- an) participants of both genders aged 18-25 years (mean and standard deviation; 20.1±1.6 years) participated in this study. CCT and IOP were measured for the right eye of each participant using a Tono-Pachymeter (NT530P) and a Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) respectively. Data was analyzed with descr...

The Moral Obligation to Explore the Military Use of Performance-Enhancing Supplements and Drugs

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2017-06-01

range, the use of the drug would be an enhancement. Yet, if Einstein himself used the drug after suffering from a brain injury that reduced his IQ to...no.1 (2006): 324. 21 therefore be treated as a disease. Raising someone’s IQ from 60 to 70 is a treatment, while raising it from 70 to 80 is an...Accepting or even experimenting with PES/Ds will have far-reaching effects and raises medical, legal, and above all, ethical concerns. In light of

Estudio de la fisiología del esfínter anal interno porcino y de la rata, y de la fisiopatología de las alteraciones de la motilidad del esfínter anal interno en pacientes con fisura anal

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Opazo Valdés, Álvaro Javier

2011-01-01

Descripció del recurs: el 01 setembre 2012 Las patologías anorectales benignas (fisura anal, incontinencia fecal, hemorroides) presentan una elevada prevalencia. De forma general, se desconoce la fisiopatología de estas enfermedades en las que se producen diversas alteraciones del esfínter anal interno (EAI). Los objetivos para esta tesis fueron: 1º Caracterizar los mecanismos y neurotransmisores implicados en el control del tono, la relajación y la contracción del EAI en dos modelos anima...

Las Políticas de la Paz y los Procesos de Negociación en Colombia. Breve Balance y Perspectivas

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William López Gutiérrez

1999-01-01

Full Text Available Este texto pone de manifiesto los esfuerzos y cambios en favor de la paz que los diferentes Gobiernos de Colombia han tratado de impulsar a través de sus Presidentes. Turbay Ayala “Con una solución militar”; Belisario Betancourt “Dialogo y apertura hacia la paz”; Virgilio Barco “Con una mano tendida y pulso firme”; Oscar Gaviria “Negociación y estrategia”; Ernesto Samper “Un tono moderado y negociador”.

Variación de la coloración en poblaciones argentinas de Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Vellard, 1947)

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Vaira, Marcos

2002-01-01

Tanto los patrones como el tono de la coloración dorsal y ventral han sido caracteres comúnmente utilizados para el reconocimiento y diferenciación de numerosas especies y subespecies del género de Bufonidae Melanophryniscus. Sin embargo, raramente se han presentado análisis detallados y sistematizados que indiquen la ausencia o la baja frecuencia de polimorfismos en estos caracteres para asegurar que son realmente diagnósticos. Mediante una metodología sistematizada se estableció la validez ...

Variación de la coloración en poblaciones argentinas de Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Vellard, 1947)

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Vaira, Marcos

2002-01-01

Tanto los patrones como el tono de la coloración dorsal y ventral han sido caracteres comúnmente utilizados para el reconocimiento y diferenciación de numerosas especies y subespecies del género de Bufonidae Melanophryniscus. Sin embargo, raramente se han presentado análisis detallados y sistematizados que indiquen la ausencia o la baja frecuencia de polimorfismos en estos caracteres para asegurar que son realmente diagnósticos. Mediante una metodología sistematizada se estableció la validez ...

Geochemical behaviour of natural uranium-series nuclides in geological formation

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Yamakawa, Minoru

1991-01-01

Recent research and investigation show that the Tono uranium deposit and its natural uranium-series nuclides have been preserved, without any significant changes like re-migration or reconcentration, throughout geological events such as upheaval-submergence, marine transgression-regression, and faulting which can readily change geological, hydrogeological, and geochemical conditions. This situation might have come about as a result of being kept in a geometrical closure system, with reducing and milk alkalic geochemical conditions, from the hydrogeological and geochemical point of view. (author)

Effect of menus on EFL learners' look-up processes | Tono | Lexikos

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This paper emphasizes the importance of empirical research on dictionary users and, in particular, investigates the effect of the so-called "menu" (a list of definitions at the beginning of a polysemous article) on the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners' dictionary look-up processes. The menu has been increasingly ...

Distopias de la vida cotidiana

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Di Biase, Carla Lujan

2014-01-01

Me interesa en el presente artículo explayarme un poco acerca de la burocracia del sistema de justicia tal cual se describe en algunos textos literarios con perspectiva de género y en un discurso no ficcional. Específicamente trataré con textos cortos en los que la burocracia aparece como un cierto tono kafkiano con el que lidian personajes femeninos. Considero al tema de la burocracia y la justicia como disparador de “momentos distópicos” insertos en nuestra realidad cotidiana, acentuados...

Tonalidad Sinestésica: Relaciones entre la tonalidad de la música y del color a través de una propuesta personal

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GONZÁLEZ COMPEÁN, FRANCISCO JAVIER

2011-01-01

El concepto de "Tonalidad" es un concepto que jerarquiza los tonos y los colores en las disciplinas de la música y el arte visual hasta nuestros días. Esta característica contribuye a establecer la funcionalidad de los elementos presentes en una pieza musical o en un espacio bidimensional o tridimensional, determinado por los colores que le ocupan. Con el concepto de una "Tonalidad Sinestésica", haremos referencia a una relación de correspondencias entre sonidos afinados y colores, determina...

Arritmias en el embarazo: ¿Cómo y cuándo tratar?

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Gómez Flores,Jorge R; Márquez,Manlio F

2007-01-01

El embarazo puede favorecer la presencia de arritmias cardíacas que no se habían presentado previamente en individuos aparentemente sanos. Los factores que potencialmente pueden promover la presencia de arritmias en el embarazo y durante la labor y el parto se atribuyen a los efectos electrofisiológicos cardíacos directos de las hormonas, cambios en el tono autonómico, alteraciones hemodinámicas, hipokalemia del embarazo y enfermedad cardíaca subyacente. Tanto la taquicardia paroxística supra...

Generación de formas. Eiseman, computadores y arquitectura

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Rodrigo García Alvarado

1997-05-01

Full Text Available En los años 70, las primeras noticias de que los computadores podían realizar planos, produjeron una significativa inquietud entre los arquitectos. Imaginábamos una máquina automática, en que apretando unos pocos botones se producían proyectos completos. Un robot-arquitecto que nos dejaría sin trabajo en un futuro cercano. Además nos preguntábamos si los diseños se volverían estandarizados y monótonos.

Ácidos grasos y función celular

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Fol Rodríguez, Nuria María

2016-01-01

El endotelio forma el revestimiento celular interno de los vasos sanguíneos y linfáticos. Las células endoteliales responden a estímulos físicos y químicos modulando el tono vascular, la permeabilidad vascular, la angiogénesis, la remodelación vascular, la respuesta inflamatoria y la hemostasia. En presencia de factores de riesgo cardiovascular (hipercolesterolemia, la hipertensión, la diabetes, el tabaquismo, etc.) se alteran estas funciones facilitando el desarrollo de la aterosclerosis. La...

Fundamentos de geometría euclidiana

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Salazar Salazar, Luis Álvaro

1984-01-01

Este texto no pretende hacer un desfile monótono de definiciones, teoremas, demostraciones o corolarios sino que procurará hacer entender las definiciones, interpretar los enunciados de los principales teoremas y aplicarlos en la solución de algunos problemas. Tampoco se busca negar la importancia de las demostraciones de los teoremas y sus repercusiones en el desarrollo intelectual del lector, teniendo en cuenta que la geometrí­a es la matemática por excelencia, entendiéndose por esto que la...

La producción tintórea Nasca : nuevos datos analíticos obtenidos sobre textiles recientemente descubiertos en excavaciones

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Boucherie, Nathalie; Nowik, Witold; Cardon, Dominique

2016-01-01

Los Nasca produjeron numerosos textiles, entre los cuales varios son de extraordinaria calidad, con una policromía muy desarrollada. Los tintoreros Nasca desarrollaron probablemente varias técnicas y probaron varias materias primas con el fin de obtener colores y tonos numerosos y estables : para desarrollar la policromía, debían dominar la tintorería. Nosotros hemos analizado los colorantes de un corpus textil representativo de la producción Nasca por medio de la cromatografía en fase liquid...

On the mining situation and future for Kibushi and Gairome clay in Tono-district. Tono chiku no kibushi nendo gairome nendo no sanjo to shorai ni tsuite

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Omaru, I [Inagaki Clay Mining Co. Ltd., Gifu (Japan)

1993-07-10

The Kibushi clay and the Gairome clay which have been taking the role as the domestic produced bonding materials for refractories are running out. This paper reports their current situation and measures from the standpoint of producers. The Kibushi clay production has been decreasing since it has peaked in 1975 at 855,000 tons down to as low as its half at 400,000 tons in 1989. The Gairome clay production has also been decreased sharply from having been produced at 30 mines to 7 mines in Gifu Prefecture. The current situation is such that not only higher cost is incurred in removing gravel beds covering the clay bed, but also no gravel disposal areas can be procured, and no profitability can be assumed because of degradation in clay quality. On the other hand, demand as raw material for sanitary earthenwares and potteries has been increasing rapidly from 2,265,000 tons to 2,779,000 tons, hence import dependence of the material is rising. Positive activities as measures against the ore depletion include an establishment of a company jointly invested by five companies in 1991, which intends to develop the industry from a mining industry to a manufacturing industry by custom-blending and reforming various kinds of clays produced in different locations, including imports, to achieve stable supply. 1 tab.

Sistema Inteligente de Supervisión de Alarmas Basado en Microcontroladores PIC, SISAP

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Ioslán Sánchez Martínez

2010-09-01

Full Text Available Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} En este artículo se describe hasta la etapa presente de desarrollo del prototipo SISAP (Sistema Inteligente de Supervisión de Alarmas basado en Microcontroladores PICs desarrollado a partir de una propuesta de la Dirección Territorial de ETECSA de Sancti Spíritus con el fin de incrementar las prestaciones de los sistemas instalados para la supervisión de alarmas tecnológicas en centros no atendidos del territorio.  El dispositivo SISAP se encuentra en la versión de desarrollo 0.5 en estado “no concluido”. Hasta este punto es capaz de manejar hasta 40 eventos, que pueden ser on/off o nivele de voltaje y transmitirlos a través de una interfaz telefónica utilizando un protocolo de tonos DTMF. Palabras Clave: Alarmas, Microcontrolador PIC, Voltajes, Eventos on/off, Tonos DTMF.

Diseño de un Sistema Inteligente y Compacto de Iluminación

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Daniel Francisco Lopez Fernandez

2018-03-01

Full Text Available La luz es un factor ambiental muy influyente en la calidad de vida y el rendimiento de las personas. Por esta razón es necesario crear e implementar tecnologías que ayuden a mantener ambientes sanos, en términos de iluminación, para los usuarios. Si a esto sumamos la gran cantidad de energía eléctrica que se desperdicia por malos hábitos de consumo y por el uso de dispositivos anticuados e ineficientes, resulta evidente la importancia del presente trabajo, el cual propone el diseño de una lámpara compacta y versátil que reemplace fácilmente a los focos tradicionales con ventajas como un control automático para el encendido y apagado en función del movimiento registrado en la habitación, un control automático de nivel de iluminación para mantener niveles óptimos en todo momento y regulación del tono de la luz de acuerdo a la habitación y a la hora del día. Para lograr lo anteriormente mencionado se utilizó tecnología LED, un microcontrolador y sensores que junto con técnicas de control gobiernan el comportamiento de la lámpara. Se establecieron varios parámetros de funcionamiento como nivel de iluminación y tono de la luz emitida los cuales se cumplieron dentro de ciertas condiciones operativas.

Efecto de la fisioterapia en un paciente con cuadriplejia por ependimoma medular

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Julio César Granados-Carrera

2014-07-01

Full Text Available La fisioterapia en pacientes con problemas neurológicos, mejora la capacidad funcional identificando limitaciones provocadas por la lesión aplicando técnicas kinésicas. Se describe los efectos de la fisioterapia en un paciente con cuadriplejía secundaria a ependimoma medular que no recibió tratamiento quirúrgico. La regulación del tono postural favoreció el control postural y el equilibrio en actividades en sedente y en cama. Se obtuvo independencia funcional en actividades básicas de la vida diaria.

Gerardo Molina y el Estado providente

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Cataño, Gonzalo

2008-01-01

En este ensayo Gonzalo Cataño examina la visión del Estado del notable pensador y dirigente socialista colombiano, Gerardo Molina. Ofrece una breve información biográfica y comenta su enfoque sobre las funciones del aparato estatal. Aunque en la exposición predomina un tono crítico, muestra que las limitaciones de un analista inteligente de los asuntos públicos son más instructivas que las consideraciones correctas de un comentarista trivial de la política. En este trabajo se denomina por Est...

Confiabilidad y validez de constructo de la Escala de Modificación Corporal en varones adolescentes

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Cervantes-Luna, Brenda Sarahi; Alvarez-Rayón, Georgina; Gómez-Peresmitré, Gilda Libia; Mancilla-Díaz, Juan Manuel

2013-01-01

En diversos países se ha constatado no sólo la adopción de estrategias de cambio corporal por parte de los varones, sino que éstas pueden responder a distintas intenciones: perder peso, ganar peso e incrementar tono o masa muscular. Sin embargo, son escasos los instrumentos que permiten evaluar diferencialmente estos aspectos. Por tanto, el propósito de esta investigación fue obtener una versión en español de la Body Modification Scale (BMS), así como examinar sus propiedades psicométricas en...

Industralización y condiciones de la vida en Inglaterra: notas sobre una larga polémica

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Canales Gili, Esteban

1994-01-01

Estado de la cuestión de la polémica en torno a las condiciones de vida en Inglaterra durante la Revolución Industrial. Se consideran los diferentes elementos que forman parte de la discusión -precios, salarios, consumo, evolución y reparto de la renta, mortalidad. condiciones sanitarias, condiciones de trabajo, estatura, grado de alfabetización- y se insiste en la dificultad de llegar a una respuesta definitiva a la pregunta de si dichas condiciones mejoran o empeoran, a pesar del tono marca...

Uso de los vectores lentivirales para la sobreexpresión de genes en cultivos primarios de células de músculo liso vascular

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Alba Santos Hipólito

2015-01-01

Las células musculares lisas de la pared vascular (CMLV) son células bien diferenciadas, que se caracterizan por una gran abundancia en proteínas contráctiles, como la actina y la miosina y poco retículo endoplásmico rugoso. Estas células tienen en condiciones normales una función contráctil, adecuada a su papel fundamental en el control del tono vascular, y una capacidad migratoria y proliferativa muy limitada. Sin embargo, las CMLV son capaces de pasar de un fenotipo contráct...

La sátira en los Cuentos chinos de Abraham Valdelomar

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Ricardo Silva-Santisteban Ubilluz

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Abraham Valdelomar nació en Ica en 1888 y falleció trágicamente en Ayacucho en 1919, luego de una corta pero deslumbrante carrera literaria en la que acometió todos los géneros literarios. En Valdelomar se ha privilegiado al admirable cuentista que fue con detrimento del poeta, el ensayista y el dramaturgo en una obra vasta y desigual en que se destacan dos tonos nítidamente diferenciados: uno exotista y artificial y otro en que se respira y palpa el ambiente de su aldea natal.

La gordofobia es un problema del trabajo social

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Navajas-Pertegás, Nina María

2017-01-01

La «epidemia de obesidad» se ha convertido en foco de atención de las agencias de salud pública y los gobiernos de los países industrializados. Dicha retórica recrimina a las personas gordas su incapacidad para autogobernarse y mantener un estilo de vida saludable. Paralelamente, el tono alarmista del discurso biomédico y las afirmaciones sobre los peligros de la gordura han sido duramente criticados. Para esclarecer este fenómeno, atenderemos al lugar de enunciación de dicho discurso; un con...

Modelos Entonativos para la Segmentación Automática de los Programas Informativos en Unidades-Noticias

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Mas Manchón, Lluís

2011-01-01

Esta tesis pretende descubrir las formas sonoras prosódicas típicas de la noticia en sus límites de principio y de final. En el marco de una investigación aplicada, consistente en el desarrollo de una aplicación automática para la segmentación de noticias, se ha trabajado con las variables tono, ritmo e intensidad de la locución de noticias en informativos televisivos de tres idiomas, como indicadores de los cambios de noticia. Para ello, hemos utilizado una metodología instrum...

Enseñanza, Sustentabilidad, Arquitectura

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Claudia Castillo Haeger; Mario Del Castillo Oyarzún

2015-01-01

La enseñanza universitaria de la sustentabilidad supone metodologías de gestión adaptativa y sistemas de pensamiento que precisan creatividad, flexibilidad y reflexión crítica. Enseñar arquitectura, urbanismo y paisaje supone, además, una predisposición a la observación, innovación, visualización y resolución teórico-práctica de problemas. A tono con el paradigma del desarrollo sustentable, la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Diego Portales ha implementado un Plan de sustentabilidad ...

Elaboración y aplicación de la guía de técnicas grafo-plásticas Innovadoras“Mis Manchitas” para el desarrollo de la psicomotricidad fina de los niños y niñas del primer año de educación básica de la escuela básica “Yaruquies” de la ciudad de Riobamba, provincia de Chimborazo. Período 2013-2014.

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Oleas Galeas, Rosa Guillermina

2015-01-01

68.- Las técnicas grafoplásticas constituyen una forma de expresión de los niños y niñas pues conducen a controlar los movimientos de las manos, el desarrollo de la pinza digital la precisión, el tono muscular, destrezas indispensables, en las que involucran todas las partes del cuerpo y establece las interacciones del conocimiento, emociones simbólicas y sensorio motrices para poder expresarse en el contexto psicosocial y trabajar desde todos sus ámbitos a través de técnicas activas ...

La comunidad del naciente : por una biopolítica afirmativa del exceso

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Gómez Montañez, César Mario

2010-01-01

Quisiéramos, en respuesta a Jean-Luc Nancy, arriesgar un desarrollo de la cuestión de la comunidad que, a su vez, nos permita resignificar la individualidad y la inmanencia. En otras palabras, se trata de rearticular individuo y comunidad desde nuevos supuestos. La cuestión es retomar el tono extático que demanda Nancy, esa figura del exceso propuesta por Bataille, y evidenciarlo en el modelo que propone Gilbert Simondon para la individuación, y Roberto Esposito para la communitas. El trabajo...

Life cycle analysis of urban infrastructures; Toshi infrastructure seibi no lifecycle bunseki

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Tagashira, N.; Uchiyama, Y. [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)

1997-05-01

Power supply services, city gas supply services, water supply and drainage services, roads, and buildings were treated as urban infrastructures so as to grasp the resources and CO2 emission consumed in their life cycle. Moreover, the consumption of resources for supporting one person and the emission of CO2 were analyzed to clarify an important point for resource saving and environmental load reduction. The resources used and CO2 emitted for each urban infrastructure were calculated with Kanto districts as a target. For the annual material weight a person, buildings are about 1,200 kg, roads are about 560 kg, and city gas is about 170 kg. Water supply and drainage is about 68 kg, and electric power is about 57 kg. For the annual CO2 emission a person, buildings are about 120 kg-C, roads are about 13 kg-C, and electric power is about 6.6 kg-C. City gas is about 5.3 kg-C, and water supply and drainage is about 4.4 kg-C. In the material weight for each resource, gravel, crushed stone, concrete, and asphalt concrete have a high consumption rate. In CO2 emission, iron, concrete, and gas oil form a high rate. 21 refs., 26 figs., 2 tabs.

Petroleum substitution energy measuring analysis survey; Sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1998-03-01

For analytical evaluation of effects of environmental protection measures, energy conservation measures, new energy promotion measures, etc., a very-long term energy supply/demand model was developed and used for a simulational study. The model is composed of the models of macro economics, secondary energy prices, new energy introduction, and energy supply/demand. The feature is that the amount of new energy introduction is measuringly analyzed based on the cost and market scale, and integratedly estimated in a frame of energy supply/demand of the whole Japan. As a result of the simulation, energy source as of 2030 is composed of coal (17%), oil (44%) and nuclear power (15%) in the case of the economic growth as viewed optimistically. Contrarily, in the case of it as viewed pesimistically, energy source is composed of coal (11%), oil (40%) and nuclear power (22%). CO2 emission is -12.4% in the case of the new energy promotion than in the standard case. 7 refs., 79 figs., 107 tabs.

Econometric analysis on oil-substituting energy; Sekiyu daigae energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1992-03-01

This is a fiscal 1991 report on the investigation having been carried out for the past 6 years by the Institute of energy Economics contracting with NEDO. The report is to make an overall evaluation of various aspects seen in the development of petroleum substitution energy in relation with the environmental problem. Various kinds of simulations are conducted by developing the industrial related model which can analyse effects of CO{sub 2} emmission control measures exerted on Japan{prime}s microeconomics such as the industrial structure, based on the analytical model which was developed by the fiscal 1990. For example, in establishment of 4 cases such as a standard case, a carbon tax imposition case, an industrial structure arrangement case and a high efficiency-new energy promotion case, signs are seen like that the primary energy supply in 2010 will decrease with heightening of energy price and improvement of consumption efficiency from 740 million kl in crude oil in the standard case to 620 million kl in the high efficiency-new energy promotion case, and CO{sub 2} emission will decrease from 440 million tons to 350 million tons. 14 refs., 65 figs., 114 tabs.

Econometric analysis on oil-substituting energy. Sekiyu daigae energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1992-03-01

This is a fiscal 1991 report on the investigation having been carried out for the past 6 years by the Institute of energy Economics contracting with NEDO. The report is to make an overall evaluation of various aspects seen in the development of petroleum substitution energy in relation with the environmental problem. Various kinds of simulations are conducted by developing the industrial related model which can analyse effects of CO{sub 2} emmission control measures exerted on Japan{prime}s microeconomics such as the industrial structure, based on the analytical model which was developed by the fiscal 1990. For example, in establishment of 4 cases such as a standard case, a carbon tax imposition case, an industrial structure arrangement case and a high efficiency-new energy promotion case, signs are seen like that the primary energy supply in 2010 will decrease with heightening of energy price and improvement of consumption efficiency from 740 million kl in crude oil in the standard case to 620 million kl in the high efficiency-new energy promotion case, and CO{sub 2} emission will decrease from 440 million tons to 350 million tons. 14 refs., 65 figs., 114 tabs.

The outline of the research and development EM-ACROSS in Tono area

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Nakajima, Takahiro; Kunitomo, Takahiro; Kumazawa, Mineo; Nagao, Hiromichi

2010-07-01

ACROSS (Accurately Controlled Routinely Operated Signal System) has developed to acquire the detailed information on the tectonically active zone. The technology for example the transmission and receiving technique, the data analysis and the interpretation technique of the ACROSS signal is able to apply not only to seismology but also to other field. We considered the ACROSS technology may apply to the engineering technology of the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project, for example monitoring of the change of the geological environment around shafts and also the strength of the shaft concrete itself. It is planned that the examination for three years will be made from fiscal year 2007, and the new observation site around the MIU was established, and the data acquisition and data analysis have been carried out. This report compiled technical matters among the results obtained in the research and the development of the EM-ACROSS. (author)

Combination of acupressure with phoniatric conventional treatment in patients with tono-pathies

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Leonor Mora Yero

2015-07-01

Full Text Available Background: there are bibliographic reports that set out the advantage about shortening the recovery time when conventional logo-phoniatric exercises are combined with natural and traditional medicine techniques, such as acupressure.Objective: to evaluate the possible effectiveness of the combination of logo-phoniatric exercises, together with digit pressure on Adam's apple, for normalizing the vocal tone and using the digital pinch mode in patients treated in the Logopedics and Phoniatrics consultation of "Dr. Ernesto Guevara" Teaching General Hospital in 2014.Methods: a quasi-experimental study was carried out in 30 patients who came voluntarily or referred because of vocal tone alterations, in the time and place mentioned above.Results: in the study population, there was prevalence of: males in 60 % of the patients; age group from 11 to 13 years old in a 63 % and over-acute tone in the 57 %.Rehabilitation of patients with tone from over-acute to grave was achieved in 94% and from ultra-grave to acute in 84%.Conclusions: in most of the patients the combination of acupressure with logo-phoniatric conventional rehabilitation exercises was effective in less than 20 sessions of treatment.

Cincuenta Tonos de Gris, Sexualidad y Contrato de Prestación Sexual

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Tereza Rodrigues Vieira

2016-06-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del presente artículo es suscitar reflexiones jurídicas sobre sexualidad y prestación de servicios sexuales, teniendo en cuenta el derecho al propio cuerpo ante la disposición de dar placer al otro a través de dolores corporales, y verificando los límites entre erotismo y sadismo, así como la protección o no de la Ley Maria da Penha a la mujer que acepta el sadismo del compañero. Además del filme y el análisis comparativo con el libro homónimo, se hace uso de la revisión bibliográfica. Se concluye que las relaciones sexuales conscientemente consentidas están dentro de la autonomía del sujeto.

Development of ACROSS (Accurately Controlled, Routinely Operated, Signal System) to realize constant monitoring the invisible earth's interiors by means of stationary coherent elastic and electromagnetic waves

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Kumazawa, Mineo; Kunitomo, Takahiro; Nakajima, Takahiro; Fujii, Naoyuki; Shigeta, Naotaka; Tsuruga, Kayoko; Hasada, Yoko; Nagao, Hiromichi; Matsumoto, Hiroshi; Kasahara, Junzo

2007-03-01

The developmental study made at Tono Geoscience Center under the Earthquake Frontier Research Project since 1996 is reported for a brand new technology system called ACROSS (Accurately Controlled, Routinely Operated, Signal System invented at Kagoya University in 1994). Various technology elements have been combined together under a specific theoretical framework for the underground exploration and monitoring of structures and physical states. The ACROSS is essentially a spectroscopy of the underground space consisted of complex media subjected to environmental noise. The robustness against noise is devised by utilizing coherent elastic and electromagnetic waves with phase controlled very accurately. Demanded hardware technology has been developed successfully and know how has been accumulated for practical applications. Accurate synchronization of transmission and observation systems has provided us with reliable data on the tensor transfer function between the source and receiver, which is equivalent to Green function within a limited frequency range. Several examples of the field application are demonstrated by the test experiments at Tono Mine site. After the developmental works of 10 years, the ACROSS is brought to be a practical method applied to the remote monitoring of temporal variation of underground states at the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory and also it is being applied to the expected focal region of the coming Tokai earthquake near Hamaoka in Shizuoka prefecture. Whereas ACROSS technology is not mature enough yet, it is shown to be a potential and versatile methodology applied even for the health monitoring of the construction such as building strongly coupled with the ground in addition to the underground study. (author)

Estudio colorimétrico de los azulejos del Patio de las Doncellas del Real Alcázar de Sevilla (España*

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Manuel Melgosa

2015-05-01

Full Text Available Se han realizado medidas colorimétricas y goniocolorimétricas de 187 azulejos de la galería baja del Patio de las Doncellas (S. xiv, que pueden agruparse en torno a 5 tonos principales: blanco, negro, azul, verde y melado. Las medidas goniocolorimétricas se muestran necesarias para caracterizar correctamente la mayoría de estas muestras, siendo insuficientes las medidas colorimétricas convencionales. Los principales cambios de color se dan al movernos desde el ángulo de –15° (próximo a la dirección de reflexión especular hasta el de +45° (dirección perpendicular a la muestra, consistiendo en un descenso de claridad (L* y un aumento de croma (C*ab. Para las muestras negras se observa además un acusado descenso del ángulo de tono (hab, así como un valor alto de 16,0 para el índice de flop en claridad. Las muestras negras y meladas tienen apariencia metalizada, con valores del índice de metalizado superiores a 5,0. Las diferencias de color entre los ángulos extremos de –15° y +110° son bastante elevadas, oscilando sus valores medios entre 4,1 (blancos y 31,2 (melados unidades CIELAB. La presente caracterización goniocolorimétrica de los azulejos del Patio de las Doncellas aporta una metodología y resultados que pueden ser útiles para los trabajos de conservadores y restauradores.

Áreas metropolitanas, reflexión, evolución y casos de estudio (2ª parte

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Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek

2007-05-01

Claramente, el término área metropolitana, surgió cuando el concepto de ciudad dejó de ser equivalente a urbano y fue necesario encontrar otro que diera cuenta de las áreas urbanizadas en tono de la ciudad central. Y aunque los criterios con los cuales las ciudades para definirlas como áreas metropolitanas no han sido siempre los mismos, en este artículo se intenta dar una mirada a la evolución y consolidación de esas áreas metropolitanas en el contexto global y particularmente para el caso de América Latina.

Los sindicatos en contra: luchas y protestas por el ajuste en córdoba. El sindicato de obras sanitarias y su enfrentamiento con el estado provincial

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Closa, Gabriela

2009-01-01

En octubre de 1989 el Poder Ejecutivo de la provincia de Córdoba envió a la Legislatura el proyecto de Ley de Reforma Administrativa del Estado Provincial. En esos días el gobernador de Córdoba era Eduardo César Angeloz, quien pertenecía a la Unión Cívica Radical. El proyecto tenía como objetivo reducir las funciones del Estado, promover la descentralización de muchas de sus actividades e impulsar la privatización de algunas de sus dependencias más importantes. A tono con la política delinead...

Errores comunes en el lenguaje periodístico. Las palabras: botín de guerra

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Juan Manuel Rodríguez

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Trata sobre la importancia de las palabras en la guerra, éstas son las primeras víctimas convertidas en armas para transmitir la violencia y la agresión, la falsedad y la mentira. Con el recurso de las palabras confundimos al público, hacemos propaganda del engaño, escamoteamos el referente, cambiamos el tono y estilo, desinformamos y creamos un entorno de caos con la ambigüedad, el doble sentido, la ocultación, los eufemismos, la degradación y otras desviaciones del idioma que permiten las figuras literarias.

Modelos entonativos para la segmentación automática de programas informativos en unidades-noticias /

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Mas Manchón, Lluís

2011-01-01

2n Premi en els XXIII Premis CAC a la Investigació sobre Comunicació Audiovisual Esta tesis pretende descubrir las formas sonoras prosódicas típicas de la noticia en sus límites de principio y de final. En el marco de una investigación aplicada, consistente en el desarrollo de una aplicación automática para la segmentación de noticias, se ha trabajado con las variables tono, ritmo e intensidad de la locución de noticias en informativos televisivos de tres idiomas, como indicadores de los c...

Área de vida e padroes de deslocamento de Brachyteles arachnoides (E.Geoffroy, 1806) (Primates:Atelinae) em um fragmento florestal no Município de Castro, Estado do Paraná, Brasil

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Pereira, Luiz Cezar Machado

2013-01-01

O presente estudo foi realizado na Fazenda Lagoa Alegre, Castro, Estado do Paraná, onde um grupo de Brachyteles arachnoides (E. Geoffroy, 1806), (mono-carvoeiro) composto por 24 indivíduos foi acompanhado entre janeiro de 2002 a outubro de 2005. O uso do habitat por Brachyteles arachnoides foi estudado numa área fragmentada de 370 hectares de Floresta Ombrófila Densa ecótono com a Floresta Ombrófila Mista (área de tensão ecológica). Ao estudo da área de vida, também foi efetivado uma breve de...

Ritualismo jurídico o derecho a las comunicaciones

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Arturo Bregaglio

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La producción del derecho en América Latina, ha estado hegemonizada por concepciones antidemocráticas y, en materia de legislación de telecomunicaciones, anclada en normas tradicionalistas, conservadora del orden autoritario y aferrada a tono solemne de la formalidad jurídica, del cumplimiento del rito. Los nuevos ordenamientos jurídicos latinoamericanos y en particular las legislaciones de telecomunicaciones, exigen códigos interpretativos impregnados de legalidad y realismo,teniendo como límites máximos ciertos y expresos a los Derechos Humanos y al orden democrático.

Proceedings of information and opinion exchange conference on geoscientific study, 2007

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Nishio, Kazuhisa; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Ogata, Nobuhisa

2008-05-01

The Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been conducting a geoscientific studies in order to establish a scientific and technological basis for the geological disposal of HLW. Information and Opinion Exchange Conference on Geoscientific Study has been held by TGC annually. The conference provides technical information and an opportunity for peer review and exchange of opinions on the geoscientific studies conducted at TGC. Research specialists and engineers from Japanese universities, research organizations and private companies usually participate the conference. This document compiles research presentations, posters of the conference on October 19th, 2007 at Mizunami. (author)

Proceedings of information and opinion exchange conference on geoscientific study, 2009

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Nishio, Kazuhisa; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi

2010-02-01

The Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been conducting a geoscientific studies in order to establish a scientific and technological basis for the geological disposal of HLW. Information and Opinion Exchange Conference on Geoscientific Study has been held by TGC annually. The conference provides technical information and an opportunity for peer review and exchange of opinions on the geoscientific studies conducted at TGC. Research specialists and engineers from Japanese universities, research organizations and private companies usually participate the conference. This document compiles research presentations, posters of the conference on October 27th, 2009 at Mizunami. (author)

Los vinos españoles en el Liber de arte medendi (1564) de Cristóbal de Vega (1510-1573) Spanish wines in the Liber de arte medendi (1564) by Cristóbal de Vega (1510-1573)

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J. P. Hernández González

2005-01-01

Objetivo: El Liber de arte medendi (Lyon, 1564) es la obra más relevante del catedrático de Prima de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Alcalá, el doctor Cristóbal de Vega (1510-1573). Se trata de un tratado -674 páginas in folio- de medicina teórica y práctica. Esta exposición doctrinal, erudita y libresca cambia de tono en la segunda de las tres partes, el liber II, que versa de las "cosas no naturales" del galenismo, las cuales necesariamente afectan al organismo y que, según se ...

Subsurface structure and physical properties; interim report for fiscal 2001 on frontiers in monitoring science and technology for earthquake environments

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2000-08-01

This report includes a final comment made and released by the advisory committee set up for fiscal 2001 by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) for inquiry into research progress in subsurface structure and physical properties at Tono Geoscience Center. The appendices contain the membership of the committee, the investigation procedure of the committee, the research subjects and objectives, the experimental results obtained and data included in the interim report including earthquake prediction study and its application for rock mechanics, geochemical and hydrological measurements and monitoring groundwater behaviors, and other materials submitted at the committee for the investigation. (S. Ohno)

"The nightmare is over": Magazine Writing and the 1976 coup

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Borrelli, Marcelo Hernán; Saborido, Jorge

2014-01-01

Este artículo analiza el discurso editorial de la revista Redacción en los meses previos al golpe de Estado del 24 de marzo de 1976, ante el marco de desestabilización del gobierno de Isabel Perón y a la perspectiva de una nueva intervención para la toma del poder estatal por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas Argentinas. Asimismo, se estudian los posicionamientos de la revista una vez concretado el golpe y ante los primeros pasos de la dictadura militar. De fuerte tono crítico hacia la administrac...

Metrical analysis survey of petroleum substituting energy; Sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1997-03-01

The paper conducted the modeling on the economic/industrial structure giving the economic frame for energy supply/demand forecast, and made some simulations. In the simulation, assumed were a standard case, aging/hollowing case, and technical innovation case. As to macroeconomic models, macro items such as the economic growth rate, prices and IS balance were determined by giving foreign factors, financial factors, population factors, etc. In long-term energy supply/demand models, data on demand by use in commercial/residential and transportation sectors were estimated using various statistics. About the calculation result of a standard case of the former sector, the existing industries which markedly ebbed are primary products, the material system, construction/civil engineering, etc. Contrarily, the production industry such as general machines, electrical machines and automobiles increased the share. New and highly growing industries are new production industries like electronics and communication and new services like finance, insurance and communication. The GDP rate grows by 2.3% per year on average and lowers in each ten years hereafter. 53 figs., 83 tabs.

Dinâmica do ecótono floresta-campo no sul do estado do Amazonas no Holoceno, através de estudos isotópicos e fitossociológicos Vegetation dynamics during the Holocene in a forest-savanna transition, Southern Amazon Basin, based on isotope and phytosociological studies

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Elaine Vidotto

2007-01-01

Full Text Available Com o emprego dos isótopos do carbono (12C, 13C, 14C da matéria orgânica do solo (MOS e das plantas, é apresentado um estudo comparativo entre perfis orgânicos de solos formados em depressões de áreas cobertas por ecossistemas de campos e florestas ao sul do estado do Amazonas, visando o entendimento da dinâmica da paleovegetação. A dinâmica da vegetação atual na região foi avaliada utilizando-se estudos fitossociológicos e caracterizações botânica e isotópica (delta13C das espécies de plantas presentes em duas bordas floresta-campo. Teores de carbono orgânico total foram superiores nas camadas superficiais no campo, quando comparados com a floresta. Dados de delta13C associados à cronologia do 14C indicaram predomínio de plantas C3 no início do Holoceno em ambos os ecótonos. Entre aproximadamente 7.000-3.000 anos AP verificou-se a influência crescente de plantas C4, indicando regressão da floresta com possível presença de um clima mais seco. A partir de aproximadamente 3.000 anos AP os dados sugeriram expansão da floresta provavelmente relacionada ao retorno a um clima mais úmido. A presença de algumas espécies características da borda, como a Sclerolobium paniculatum e Himatanthus sucuuba, nos campos, sugere o atual avanço da floresta sobre os mesmos. Estas espécies estariam sendo as bioindicadoras desse avanço.This paper presents a comparative study between organic soil horizons formed in depressions located at the forest/savanna boundary in the Southern Amazon Basin. The influence of the paleovegetation dynamics, based on carbon isotope (12C, 13C and 14C data of soil organic matter (SOM and plants was evaluated, as well as the present vegetation dynamics, inferred from the modern vegetation structure, composition and phytosociology. The uppermost soil horizon in savanna showed higher total carbon content than in forest. 13C and 14C data from soil samples indicated a predominance of C3 plants in the early

Geomass: geological modelling analysis and simulation software for the characterisation of fractured hard rock environments

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White, M.J.; Humm, J.P.; Todaka, N.; Takeuchi, S.

1998-01-01

This paper presents the development and functionality of a suite of applications which are being developed to support the geological investigations in the Tono URL. GEOMASS will include 3D geological modelling, 3D fluid flow and solute transport and 3D visualisation capabilities. The 3D geological modelling in GEOMASS will be undertaken using a commercially available 3D geological modelling system, EarthVision. EarthVision provides 3D mapping, interpolation, analysis and well planning software. It is being used in the GEOMASS system to provide the geological framework (structure of the tectonic faults and stratigraphic and lithological contacts) to the 3D flow code. It is also being used to gather the geological data into a standard format for use throughout the investigation programme. The 3D flow solver to be used in GEOMASS is called Frac-Affinity. Frac-Affinity models the 3D geometry of the flow system as a hybrid medium, in which the rock contains both permeable, intact rock and fractures. Frac-Affinity also performs interpolation of heterogeneous rock mass property data using a fractal based approach and the generation of stochastic fracture networks. The code solves for transient flow over a user defined sub-region of the geological framework supplied by EarthVision. The results from Frac-Affinity are passed back to EarthVision so that the flow simulation can be visualized alongside the geological structure. This work-flow allows rapid assessment of the role of geological features in controlling flow. This paper will present the concepts and approach of GEOMASS and illustrate the practical application of GEOMASS using data from Tono

Urbanización descontextualizada y condiciones locales. Cinco casos de estudio en España / Decontextualized urbanization and local conditions. Five case study in Spain

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Irene Rodríguez Lorite

2013-01-01

Full Text Available ResumenLa expansión del sector de la construcción desde mediados del siglo XX hasta principios del siglo XXI ha crecido a un ritmo vertiginoso, especialmente en la década de los 60 a los años 70, por los acontecimientos históricos y demográficos ocurridos en España. Este acelerado desarrollo, trajo consigo la realización de multitud de periferias y nuevos barrios de carácter monótono, sin responder en gran parte de los casos a las condiciones de contorno del territorio en el que se ubicaban.Se describen procesos constructivos y de diseño urbano análogos en cada uno de los casos estudiados, llevando a la pérdida de identidad de la ciudad y de la relación del ciudadano con su territorio.Palabras claveHomogéneo, monótono, falta de identidad, condiciones locales, paisaje urbanoAbstractThe expansion in the field of construction since the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century has grown at a fast pace, especially from the 60s to the 70s, by historical and demographic events that occurred in Spain. This accelerated growth brought about the realization of an many suburbs and new neighborhoods of monotonous character, that no respond in most cases to the boundary conditions of the territory in which they were located.Construction processes and similar urban design in each of the cases studied, are described leading to the loss of identity of the city and the relationship between citizens and their territory.KeywordsHomogeneous, monotonous, lack of identity, local conditions, cityscape

DE AL MASSIRA AL BIRM: CRONICA DEL CONFLICTO ENTRE LOS NOMADAS SAHARAUIS Y EL REINO MARROQUI

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Carlos Mario Valenzuela Tamayo

1999-01-01

Full Text Available Durante cada misión, este colombiano ha escrito sendas cartas, para compartir con amigos y familiares sus vivencias y sus lecturas de los procesos. Con su autorización, el equipo de redacción de Nómadas ha editado la carta que escribió sobre la identificación electoral de los nómadas saharauis que podrían eventualmente participar en el referendo por la autodeterminación de este pueblo del Sahara Occidental. Se ha procurado mantener el tono epistolar, en que el autor mezcla la calidez narrativa con una gran capacidad analítica e interpretativa.

De al Massira al Birm: crónica del conflicto entre los nómadas saharauis y el Reino Marroqui

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Carlos Mario Valenzuela Tamayo

1999-04-01

Full Text Available Durante cada misión, este colombiano ha escrito sendas cartas, para compartir con amigos y familiares sus vivencias y sus lecturas de los procesos. Con su autorización, el equipo de redacción de Nómadas ha editado la carta que escribió sobre la identificación electoral de los nómadas saharauis que podrían eventualmente participar en el referendo por la autodeterminación de este pueblo del Sahara Occidental. Se ha procurado mantener el tono epistolar, en que el autor mezcla la calidez narrativa con una gran capacidad analítica e interpretativa.

Multi-component observation in deep boreholes, and its applications to earthquake prediction research and rock mechanics

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Ishii, Hiroshi

2014-01-01

The Tono Research Institute of Earthquake Science (TRIES) has developed a multicomponent instrument that can be operated in deep boreholes (e.g., those one km in depth). It is equipped with stress meters, strain meters, tilt meters, seismometers, magnetometers, and thermometers; in addition, these sensors can be arbitrarily combined. The stress meters, which were developed recently, can observe stress and strain; in the future, data obtained from these sensors will offer new information on seismology and rock mechanics. The size of typical probe is 12 cm diameter 7.8 m total length and 290 kg total weight. It consists of many meters in tandem connection. (authors)

Proceedings of information and opinion exchange conference on geoscientific study, 2006

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Nishio, Kazuhisa; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Ogata, Nobuhisa

2008-03-01

The Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been conducting a geoscientific studies in order to establish a scientific and technological basis for the geological disposal of HLW. Information and Opinion Exchange Conference on Geoscientific Study has been held by TGC annually. The conference provides technical information and an opportunity for peer review and exchange of opinions on the geoscientific studies conducted at TGC. Research specialists and engineers from Japanese universities, research organizations and private companies usually participate the conference. This document collects research presentations, posters of the conference on October 19th to 20th, 2006 at Mizunami. (author)

La musicalidad en el poema "Los zapaticos de Rosa” de José Martí, y su relación con la formación lenguaje en los niños

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Castrillón Baquero, Jolyn Elena

2014-01-01

El presente texto presenta aspectos de la vida y obra de José Martí, dando cuenta de su pensamiento crítico humanístico, el cual aporta a la compresión de su universo poético expuesto en la Obra La Edad de Oro -- En esta se pretende resaltar la musicalidad del poema “Los zapaticos de Rosa” valorando el ritmo, los tonos y sentidos en relación con el proceso de adquisición del lenguaje en los niños -- Para ello se retoman concepciones de la poesía expuestas por Octavio Paz y Alicia Genovese qui...

Diseño y construcción de un ejercitador portátil que evalúe la fuerza de la contracción de los músculos del suelo pélvico basado en los ejercicios de Kegel

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Gutiérrez Alvarez, Adriana Monserrat; Orellana Villavicencio, Gabriela Alexandra

2008-01-01

En este trabajo se presenta un desarrollo de la Ingeniería Electrónica basado en el área médica, con lo que se pretende evitar problemas psicológicos y sociales que se presenta hoy en día en las mujeres a causa de la Incontinencia Urinaria de Esfuerzo por efecto del parto, de pérdida de tono muscular o por deterioro del suelo pélvico, lo que conlleva a pérdidas de la orina al toser o reír. Los tratamientos no quirúrgicos de la incontinencia urinaria se basan en el entrenamiento y fortaleci...

Condensation reactions of glucose and aromatic ring; Glucose to hokokan tono shukugo hanno

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Komano, T.; Mashimo, K.; Wainai, T.; Tanaka, C.; Yoshioka, T. [Nihon University, Tokyo (Japan). College of Science and Technology; Sugimoto, Y.; Miki, Y. [National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba (Japan)

1996-10-28

For artificial coalification, condensation reactions of aromatic ring and activated compounds produced by dehydrating reaction of glucose were studied experimentally. In heat treatment experiment in water, three reaction specimens such as glucose, glucose and phenol, and glucose and benzaldehyde were fed into an autoclave together with distilled water, and subjected to reaction at 180{degree}C under spontaneous pressure for 50 hours. In hydrogenation experiment, the specimens were fed into an autoclave together with tetradecane and sulfurization catalyst, and subjected to reaction at 350{degree}C under initial pressure of 9.8MPa for 2 hours for gas chromatography (GC) analysis of products. As the experimental result, the reaction between glucose and aromatic ring in heat treatment in water occurred between aromatic ring and active fragment with a mean carbon number of 4-5 produced by decomposition of glucose. The reactivity was higher in benzaldehyde addition than phenol addition. 3 refs., 4 figs., 1 tab.

Culturas juveniles en tono de mujer. Hip hop en Medellín (Colombia.

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Ángela Garcés Montoya.

2011-04-01

Full Text Available This article is part of the research project, “Youth musical mediations,” that explores the appropriation of alternative means of communication which allow the young to develop identities sharply differentiated from those the adult world. In particular, the article examines the world of hip hop in Medellín and the ways that youth participate in it. To follow key trajectories of women in hip hop, their voices, feelings, and memories must be uncovered. This will allow us to see how the few women who are currently part of hip hop scene in Medellín and Colombia enter, move through, and persevere in it. Since women constitute only a small percentage of the youth who live and remake hip hop in Medellín, it is important to understand how they manage to live in a male-colored world. If hip hop is about strength, denunciation, confrontation, and resistance, it seems that these qualities are more appropriate for men than for women

Síndromes do núcleo rubro. A propósito de três casos com etiologia sifilítica, um dos quais associado a mioclonias velofaringolaríngeas

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Adherbal Tolosa

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Full Text Available Registrando três casos de síndromes do núcleo rubro — dois de síndrome superior e um de síndrome inferior, tipo Claude — os autores revêem a anátomo-fisiologia dessa formação mesencefálica. Ressaltam particularmente as alterações do tono verificadas pela lesão experimental do núcleo vermelho. A destruição da porção parvicelular, superior (neorrubro determina o aparecimento de hipotonia, por liberação da atividade inibidora do tono da porção magnocelular, inferior ( paleorrubro ; a lesão desta última provoca hipertonia, devido à liberação dos núcleos tonígenos romben cefálicos. Os autores, no sentido de correlacionar os fatos experimentais e anátomo-clínicos, lembram o conceito de De Giacomo sôbre a topografia das lesões nas síndromes rúbricas: na de Benedikt, o processo patológico se situaria no paleorrubro, enquanto que, na de Claude e na superior, o neorrubro seria a porção afetada.Os autores discutem também o problema das hipercinesias, destacando o caráter intencional das mesmas; lembram a existência de conexões rubrocorticais recíprocas, diretas e indiretas, e ressaltam o fato de que o núcleo de Stilling é uma estação obrigatória do circuito ideado por Bucy para explicar a fisiopatologia do tremor intencional. Os autores assinalam a raridade das síndromes rúbricas, das quais encontraram o registro de 5 casos na literatura brasileira, sendo que 4 se referemà síndrome de Benedikt. Comentando seus casos, os autores salientam os seguintes pontos: a a etiologia luética das lesões, em um caso do tipo mesenquimal e, em dois. do tipo parenquimatoso; b a existência de acentuada hipotonia em dois casos e de normalidade do tono no outro; c a normalidade do eletrencefalograma em um caso de síndrome superior do núcleo rubro e em um caso de síndrome de Claude; d a desarmonia das reações vestibulares observada em um dos casos; e a existência de distúrbios da regulação térmica no caso 2

Análisis del macroproceso terapéutico del dispositivo grupo de terapia focalizada-gtf para adolescentes tempranos violentos Macroprocess analysis of focalised therapeutic groupsftg device for early violent adolescents

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Susana Quiroga

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Full Text Available En el marco de los Proyectos UBACYT 2004-2007 P069 y 2008-2010 P049, se realizaron 9 Grupos de Terapia Focalizada-GTF para adolescentes tempranos violentos con diagnóstico de Trastorno Negativista Desafiante y Trastorno Disocial en el período 2001-2005. Para el Análisis de Proceso Terapéutico, la muestra se conformó con dos grupos GTF, seleccionados al azar, compuestos por casi el 30% de los pacientes (N=11 de la muestra total del Análisis de Resultados (N=42. El instrumento utilizado fue el Modelo de Ciclo Terapéutico- TCM (Mergenthaler, E., 1996a, 1996b, 1998, 2008; Adaptación argentina para procesos grupales generales y específicos: Fontao y Mergenthaler, 2005 a, b; Toranzo, Taborda, Ross, Mergenthaler y Fontao, 2007; Quiroga y Cryan, 2007 d, 2008 a. En el análisis del macroproceso considerando el texto completo, se pudo apreciar en la primera mitad del dispositivo, la presencia de sesiones que indicaban una combinación de elevado tono emocional y elevada abstracción (patrón Connecting. En la segunda mitad del dispositivo, se detectó que el nivel del tono emocional y de la abstracción fue menor a la media del dispositivo (patrón Relaxing. Los patrones que implican un claro predominio del tono emocional o de la abstracción (patrones Experiencing y Reflecting, fueron escasos y poco marcados.Within the framework provided by the UBACYT 2004-2007 P069 y 2008-2010 P049 Projects, 9 Focalised Therapeutic Groups (FTG for early violent adolescents, diagnosed in the period 2001-2005 as having a Oppositional Defiant Disorder and a Conduct Disorder, were formed. For the Analysis of The Therapeutic Process, the sample was composed by two FTG groups, chosen at random, formed by almost 30% of the patients (N= 11 of the total sample of the Outcome Analysis (N= 42. The instrument used was the Therapeutic Cycle Model- TCM (Mergenthaler, E., 1996a, 1996b, 1998, 2008; the Argentine Adaptation for general and specific group processes: Fontao

The effects of the modulus of the lens material on intraocular pressure measurement through soft contact lenses.

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Boyraz, S; Güngör, I

2013-09-01

To investigate the effects of the modulus of the lens material on the intraocular pressure measurement using the Tono-Pen XL applanation tonometer through soft contact lenses. Thirty eyes of 15 patients with myopia were evaluated. Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements were performed using Tono-Pen XL directly over cornea, and subsequently through three soft contact lenses made up of different lens materials. All were -3.00 diopter soft contact lenses: lotrafilcon A with a low water content (24%) and high modulus (1.4 MPa) (CL-I), balafilcon A with a moderate water content (36%) and moderate modulus (1.1 MPa) (CL-II), and vifilcon A with a moderate water content (55%) and low modulus (0.79 MPa) (CL-III). IOP measurements through contact lenses were compared with each other, and with direct corneal measurements. The mean age of the patients (11 males and 4 females) was 26.86±5.62 years. All measurements obtained through CLs were significantly higher than the direct corneal measurements. The measurements through CLs differed by 4.61±0.54 mmHg (P=0,001), 2.9±0.46 mmHg (P=0.001), and 1.94±0.51 mmHg (P=0,003) for CL-I, CL-II and CL-III, respectively. In the paired comparisons of measurements through CLs, all comparisons were significant except the comparison of measurements through CL-II and CL-III (P=0.128). IOP measurements through silicone-hydrogel contact lenses with a high modulus and low water content were higher compared to the other contact lenses. While measuring IOP through CLs, the clinicians should consider the effect of the lens material and the features of the device used.

Development of groundwater treatment method using radiation-induced graft polymerization adsorbent at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory. Annual report on 2007 fiscal year (Joint research)

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Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi; Ogata, Nobuhisa; Sugihara, Kozo; Seko, Noriaki; Kasai, Noboru; Hoshina, Hiroyuki; Ueki, Yuji; Tamada, Masao

2009-11-01

The concentrations of fluorine (7.2-10mg/L) and boron (0.8-1.5mg/L) dissolved in groundwater pumped from shafts during excavation at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU), Tono Geoscience Centre, must be reduced to the levels below the environmental standards (fluorine:0.8mg/L, boron:1mg/L). Coagulation treatment and ion exchange treatment are applied for fluorine and boron at a current water treatment facility in MIU, respectively. A collaborative research on groundwater treatment for fluorine and boron was started by the Environment and Industrial Materials Research Division, Quantum Beam Science Directorate and the Tono Geoscientific Research Unit, Geological Isolation Research and Development Directorate in 2006. This is because the Quantum Beam Science Directorate has synthesized fibrous adsorbents with radiation-induced graft polymerization and applied them to collect rare metals dissolved in hot springs and sea water. Boron adsorbent synthesized by grafting showed higher removal rate than that of the ion-exchange resin. Additionally, the durability and the repetitive use of the boron adsorbent were evaluated to estimate the capacity of the boron adsorption. Therefore we produced a test equipment to do scale-up test of the adsorbent. Effects of flow rate and the repetitive use on the adsorption capacity of boron were investigated. As a result, it concluded that the adsorption capacity of the boron adsorbent did not change even when the flow rate increased from SV 50h -1 to 100h -1 . In addition, enough durability was confirmed for the repetitive use of the adsorbent. The adsorption capacity of the adsorbent was affected by pH of the groundwater especially in high alkaline range above a pH of 10. (author)

Survey on econometric analysis of oil substitute energy; Sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1996-03-01

For the econometric analysis of petroleum substitution energy, a domestic econometric model was developed which can concretely and econometrically grasp and analyze effects of measures taken for environmental policies, energy conservation, promotion of new energy, etc. The model was made so synthetic as to catch a relationship between energy supply/demand and changes of econosocial structures in economic growth, industrial structure, life style, etc. which are extremely important elements for catching future energy demand. The model is composed of a secondary energy price model, a new energy introduction model, and an energy supply/demand model. As case parameters, selected were the price of crude oil, introduction of new energy, GDP and energy conservation, and the following cases were assumed: standard case, high price energy case, new energy introduction promotion case, low economic growth case, energy conservation case, and low energy demand case. The results of simulating each of these cases were indicated. 91 figs., 110 tabs.

Composição florística e estrutura da comunidade de epífitas vasculares em uma área de ecótono em Campo Mourão, PR, Brasil Floristic composition and structure of the vascular epiphyte community in a transition area at Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil

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Henrique Cesar Lopes Geraldino

2010-06-01

Full Text Available O presente estudo foi realizado em uma área de ecótono de aproximadamente 30 hectares entre Floresta Estacional Semidecidual e Floresta Ombrófila Mista, localizada na Capela do Calvário, município de Campo Mourão, PR. Para a análise fitossociológica foram selecionados 80 forófitos. No levantamento total foram encontradas 61 espécies, 39 gêneros e 13 famílias de epífitas (10 de Pteridófitas e 51 de Magnoliófitas. As famílias mais ricas foram: Orchidaceae (38%, Bromeliaceae e Polypodiaceae (13%, Cactaceae (11% e Piperaceae (8%, que juntas compõem 83% das espécies amostradas. Os gêneros Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae e Peperomia (Piperaceae foram os mais ricos, com cinco espécies. A anemocoria foi constatada em 67% das espécies e 86% foram classificadas como holoepífitas verdadeiras. Das 61 espécies inventariadas, 43 ocorreram nas áreas de amostragem, sendo cinco em maior freqüência: Microgramma squamulosa, Pleopeltis angusta, Tillandsia loliacea, Tillandsia recurvata e Pecluma sicca. O índice de Shannon (H’ registrado para a área foi de 3,175 e a equabilidade (J 0,863. Foram encontradas nove espécies epifíticas restritas a apenas um forófito. Microgramma squamulosa foi a espécie mais importante em toda área amostral. O trecho de vegetação em área de interflúvio, por apresentar estágio avançado de desenvolvimento, teve riqueza superior à área de vegetação ribeirinha.This study was conducted in a transition area of approximately 30 hectares between Semideciduous Forest and Araucaria Forest located in the Capela do Calvário, at Campo Mourão, Paraná. For the phytosociological analysis 80 phorophytes were selected. The survey found 61 species, 39 genera and 13 families of epiphytes (10 pteridophytes and 51 magnoliophytes. The richest families were: Orchidaceae (38%, Bromeliaceae and Polypodiaceae (13%, Cactaceae (11% and Piperaceae (8%, which together make up 83% of the sampled species. Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae

Paganismo, denuncia y sátira en Débora Arango

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Santiago Londoño Vélez

1985-06-01

Full Text Available Hasta el cuarto decenio del siglo, la pintura colombiana representó desnudos femeninos con poca frecuencia. Cuando lo hizo, fue para ilustrar propósitos moralizantes, como lo muestran dos ejemplares significativos: La mujer del levita, pintada por Epifanio Garay (1849-1903, y La última copa, de Francisco Antonio Cano (1865-1935. Hasta entonces los desnudos femeninos carecían de facciones precisas e incluso ocultaban el rostro; los cuerpos se presentaban generalmente en escorzo y la ausencia del vello púbico les confería un pretendido tono de inocencia y pudor cuyo contrapunto era la cuidadosa y sensual modelación ejercida por la luz sobre la piel.

Reseña Impacto de la Comunicación Corporativa, de Comstat Rowland (2010/ Book review Impact of Corporate Communication, by Comstat Rowland (2010

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Agrivalca R. Canelón S.

2011-06-01

Full Text Available Medir, valorar, calcular…no son pocos los términos de este tenor que han venido incorporándose progresivamente en la jerga profesional de quienes tienen a su cargo la responsabilidad de gestionar las comunicaciones de una organización, cuando no apoyar esta función desde una instancia de asesoría externa.Al amparo de esta tendencia, inscrita en la puesta a tono de la denominada administración de los intangibles empresariales, prima el desiderátum por diseñar y aplicar metodologías cada vez más sofisticadas en aras de propinar rigurosidad a la evaluación de las iniciativas de comunicación corporativa.

Study on geological environment in the Tono area. An approach to surface-based investigation

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2002-12-01

Mizunami Underground Research (MIU) Project has aimed at preparation of basis of investigation, analysis and evaluation of geology of deep underground and basis of engineering technologies of ultra deep underground. This report stated an approach and information of surface-based investigation for ground water flow system and MIU Project by the following contents, 1) objects and preconditions, 2) information of geological environment for analysis of material transition and design of borehole, 3) modeling, 4) tests and investigations and 5) concept of investigation. The reference data consists of results of studies such as the geological construction model, topography, geologic map, structural map, linear structure and estimated fault, permeability, underground stream characteristics, the quality of underground water and rock mechanics. (S.Y.)

Reliability of the non-contact tono-pachymeter Tonopachy NT-530P in healthy eyes.

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García-Resúa, Carlos; Pena-Verdeal, Hugo; Miñones, Mercedes; Giraldez, M Jesus; Yebra-Pimentel, Eva

2013-05-01

Non-contact Tonopachy NT-530P (Nidek Co., LTD) provides intraocular pressure (IOP) and central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements. This study assesses the reliability and repeatability of its IOP measurements in young healthy adult subjects. IOP was determined in the right eye of 64 healthy patients using Tonopachy followed by the Canon TX-10 non-contact and Goldmann applanation (GAT) tonometers. Tonopachy IOP measurements were corrected (Tonopachy-C) or not (Tonopachy-NC) by the instrument for central corneal thickness. Central corneal thickness measurements provided by Tonopachy were also used to correlate (Pearson's coefficient) central corneal thickness with the GAT and Canon TX-10 IOPs. Repeatability of Tonopachy and GAT was assessed in the right eye of 31 subjects in two separate sessions one week apart. Differences between pairs of instruments and between sessions were determined using Bland-Altman plots. The coefficient of repeatability was calculated as the 95% limits of agreement (LoA) of differences between the two sessions. Tonopachy-NC, Tonopachy-C, Canon TX-10 and the Goldmann tonometers showed a mean IOP of 14.62, 15.64, 15.02 and 14.68 mmHg, respectively. Tonopachy-NC and Canon TX-10 readings did not differ significantly from the Goldmann (p > 0.05), with close agreement with both tonometers (GAT versus Tonopachy-NC: -3.84 to 3.96 mmHg; Goldmann versus Canon TX-10: -4.75 to 4.07 mmHg). Tonopachy-C readings differed significantly from Goldmann (mean difference -0.96 mmHg, p = 0.001, LoA from -5.09 to 3.17). Coefficients of repeatability were ± 3.70, ± 3.14 and ± 3.33 mmHg for GAT, Tonopachy-NC and Tonopachy-C, respectively. Central corneal thickness measured with Tonopachy was 530.42 ± 34.96 μm. There was a significant correlation between central corneal thickness and IOP for all tonometers except Tonopachy-C. Reasonable agreement was observed between the Goldmann and Tonopachy. This instrument provides reliable and repeatable IOP measurements not influenced by central corneal thickness. The Tonopachy-NC and Canon TX-10 offer similar reliability compared to the Goldmann applanation tonometer in a young normotensive population. © 2013 The Authors. Clinical and Experimental Optometry © 2013 Optometrists Association Australia.

Conceptual design for relocation of the underground monitoring systems to ground surface

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Toya, Naruhisa; Ogawa, Ken; Iwatsuki, Teruki; Ohnuki, Kenji

2015-09-01

One of the major subjects of the ongoing geoscientific research program, the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) Project in the Tono area, central Japan, is accumulation of knowledge on a recovery of the geological environment during and after the facility closure. Then it is necessary to plan the observation system which can be use of after the backfill of research tunnels. The main purpose of this report is contribution to the detailed design for relocation of the underground monitoring systems to ground surface. We discussed the restriction and requirement for the underground monitoring systems which can be use of after the backfill. Furthermore, we made the conceptual design for relocation of the current underground monitoring systems to ground surface. (author)

Divas en la brega: apuntes para el estudio de Las divas de mi barrio de Carmen Montañez

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Violeta Lorenzo-Feliciano

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Full Text Available En este trabajo analizaré la manera en que Montañez redefine el concepto de diva en su colección de cuentos Las divas de mi barrio. Arguyo que su redefinición valoriza la función de personajes femeninos que no sólo difieren físicamente de las ideas de belleza que se asocian con una diva sino que pertenecen a la clase trabajadora del país donde se desarrolla la acción. Por lo tanto, en estos cuentos se rinde tributo a otras formas de femineidad y de conocimientos que tienden a quedar excluidos por no ir a tono con las conductas y estéticas que afianzan el machismo.

Edouard Andre (1840-1911, Jardinero-Naturalista y sus viajes por Colombia y el Ecuador

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Chardon Carlos E.

1947-06-01

Full Text Available En la literatura botánica de Colombia y el Ecuador figura ocasionalmente con tono de notable indiferencia el nombre de EDOUARD ANDRÉ, célebre jardinero-naturalista francés, que visitó estos dos países allá por los años de 1875-1876. Por esta razón, los datos biográficos que se incluyen a continuación pueden ser de interés. Los debo principalmente a la exquisita gentileza de MADAME DUPRAT, bibliotecaria del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, de París, quien recientemente me ha suministrado copia de los datos biográficos de ANDRE, publicados en la Revue horticote (numero del 1o de noviembre de 1911, agotado.

La María de Jorge Isaacs y su aporte en la construcción de la identidad de los sujetos

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MARIBEL FLORIAN-BUITRAGO

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Dado que fue en el siglo XIX cuando, ante la emergencia y consolidación de los nacionalismos, la formación de las identidades nacionales se convierten en el foco de las más diversas prácticas culturales, en especial de la literatura, optamos por recurrir a una de las obras más representativas de la literatura colombiana como lo es María, para analizar cómo, a través de la representación del sentimiento amoroso y el registro de una serie de ficciones autorreferenciales narradas en la novela, se empezó a modular los tonos de lo colectivo y a preparar a la gente para la vida social.

Countermeasure against insect pests for comfortable life; Gaichu tono tatakai (kaitekina seikatsu kukan wo mezashite)

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Hirano, M. [Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd., Osaka (Japan)

1998-06-01

Described herein are the current status and development of insecticides for domestic purposes. For aerosol type cockroach-killing insecticides, oily type is predominant in Japan whereas aqueous type in USA and other countries. They are mixtures of knockdown agents and killing agents, the former being used for their immediate and lethal effects whereas the latter for their lethal effect. In 1996, agents showing high knockdown effects, such as pyrethroids, are registered. Fumigants are used in closed spaces, which are ventilated after they are used. Bait agents contain inducing agents. Recently, ticks become social problems as an allergy source. The insecticides are generally used to remove them, although physical methods, such as cleaning and heat treatment, are effective. They are centered by aerosols and fumigants, but insecticidal sheets are used to some extent. Fleas coming from pets also cause problems. Increased resistance of insects to insecticides has led to development of new types of insecticides, such as those based on organophosphates and those aimed at prevention of their metamorphosis. Commercial insecticides are safe, as long as they are produced in compliance with the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law and used correctly. Nevertheless, however, researches for safer countermeasures against insects are needed. 3 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.

Poor correlation between intracranial pressure and intraocular pressure by hand-held tonometry

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Golan S

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Full Text Available Shani Golan,1 Shimon Kurtz,1 Daphna Mezad-Koursh,1 Michael Waisbourd,1 Anat Kesler,1 Pinchas Halpern2 1Departments of Ophthalmology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2Emergency Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Purpose: The aim of this study is to provide data on the controversial issue of whether handheld measurements of intraocular pressure (IOP are capable of accurately predicting elevated intracranial pressure (ICP in patients undergoing lumbar puncture (LP. Methods: All patients over the age of 18 years who underwent an LP in the emergency or neurological departments at the Tel Aviv Medical center for any reason between October 2007 and July 2010 were eligible to participate in this prospective observational pilot study. IOP was measured with the Tono-Pen XL while patients were in the supine position before undergoing LP. ICP was measured in the lateral recumbent position. ICP and bilateral IOP were measured, and the mean and maximum values of IOP were calculated. The association between ICP and each one of the four IOP measures was evaluated by the Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: Twenty-four patients (mean age 37.8 ± 15.8 years, ten males and 14 females were enrolled. The reasons for their requiring an LP were headache (19/24 patients, evaluation for hemiparesis (2/24, cognitive deterioration (1/24, and seizures (2/24. Nine had elevated mean opening pressure (>20 cm H2O, six had an elevated mean IOP (>20 mmHg, and four of these six also had an elevated opening pressure. There was no significant correlation between the ICP measurements and any of the IOP measurements. Conclusion: Handheld ocular tonometry has poor sensitivity and specificity for the prediction of increased ICP and is not an effective tool for screening for ICP in the ED or in the

Clinical evaluation of the new TGDc-01 "PRA" palpebral tonometer: comparison with contact and non-contact tonometry.

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García Resúa, Carlos; Giráldez Fernández, Maria J; Cerviño Expósito, Alejandro; González Pérez, Javier; Yebra-Pimentel, Eva

2005-02-01

The TGDc-01 "PRA" (Ryazan State Instrument, Ryazan, Russia) tonometer is a new portable small-sized tonometer that measures intraocular pressure (IOP) through the eyelid. The purpose of this study is to assess the repeatability of the TGDc-01 IOP measurements by comparing them against those obtained with Goldmann tonometer and with those from Perkins applanation tonometer, Xpert (Reichert, Depew, NY) noncontact tonometer, and Tono-Pen XL (Medtronic Solan, Jacksonville, FL) digital tonometer. Fifty-eight right eyes of 58 young subjects were measured with each of the tonometers. Noncontact tonometry was performed first, followed by Goldmann and Perkins applanation tonometer (in random order), digital Tono-Pen XL, and finally TGDc-01 tonometer (sitting and supine position). Correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between the Goldmann tonometer and the remaining tonometers used in this study. Plotting the difference between the methods against mean was also done to compare the tonometers. The hypothesis of zero bias was examined by a paired t-test. The 95% limits of agreement (LoA) were also calculated. TGDc-01 showed no statistical difference between the IOP measurements obtained in sitting and supine positions. A poor relationship between the TGDc-01 and Goldmann tonometer was found (r = 0.173; p = 0.001). Although the mean differences between Goldmann and Tonopen XL, Xpert, and TGDc-01 IOP measurements were statistically significant, the wider 95% LoA was observed when comparing the Goldmann and TGDc-01 tonometers. Computation of the 95% LoA resulted in a wide bias range when comparing the TGDc-01 with all the tonometers used in this study. The TGDc-01 "PRA" tonometer was not comparable with the other techniques used in the study. The wide dispersion range of the values obtained shows low repeatability of the TGDc-01 for screening purposes. These results could be because of the technique of measurement and/or interindividual variables.

Intraocular pressure monitoring by rebound tonometry in children with myopia.

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Weng, Jenchieh; Tsai, I-Lun; Kuo, Li-Lin; Tsai, Ching-Yao; Woung, Lin-Chung; Hsiao, Ya-Chuan

2017-01-01

Topical atropine treatment is generally accepted to retard the progression of myopia, but it is associated with side effects such as photophobia and elevation of intraocular pressure (IOP). IOP measurements in children are challenging. The traditional applanation tonometry by direct contact with the cornea will require patient's cooperation. The rebound tonometer, using a dynamic electromechanical method for measuring IOP, shows good correlation with traditional tonometry. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the IOP of myopic children under atropine treatment using rebound tonometer and to compare the characteristics between rebound tonometry and applanation tonometry. This study is a prospective study measuring IOP by rebound tonometer in myopic children under regular low-dose atropine treatment. We recruited children with refraction error showing myopia over -0.5 D with 0.15%, 0.3%, or 0.5% atropine eye drops use every night or every other night for myopia control. Children with treatment duration of atropine tonometer (Tono-Pen XL, Reichert) and rebound tonometer (ICARE). The reliability of rebound tonometer was analyzed with percentage. Comparison of IOP between rebound tonometer and applanation tonometry was presented. The rebound tonometry was well tolerated by all participants and caused no complaints, discomfort, or adverse events. Totally 42 myopic eyes of 42 subjects were included in the study. The average age of these participants was 10 years old, range from 5 to 16. Median = 10 years old. The average IOP of the right eye by rebound tonometer was 17.4 ± 3 mmHg, and 17.1 ± 3 mmHg by applanation tonometry. Nearly 19%, 33%, and 24% of difference of IOP readings between rebound tonometer and Tono-Pen applanation are within 0 mmHg, 1 mmHg, and 1-2 mmHg, respectively. Rebound tonometry has good correlation with applanation tonometry and 76.1% of differences between two tonometers are <2 mmHg. The advantage of drop-free rebound tonometry has made it

Development of groundwater treatment methods using radiation-induced graft polymerization adsorbent at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory. Annual report for 2008 fiscal year (Joint research)

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Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi; Ogata, Nobuhisa; Sugihara, Kozo; Hoshina, Hiroyuki; Seko, Noriaki; Kasai, Noboru; Ueki, Yuji; Tamada, Masao

2011-02-01

The concentrations of fluorine (7.2-10mg/L) and boron (0.8-1.5mg/L) dissolved in groundwater pumped from the shafts during excavation of the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU), Tono Geoscience Center, shall be reduced to levels below the environmental standards for fluorine: 0.8mg/L and boron: 1mg/L. Coagulation and ion exchange methods are being applied for fluorine and boron, respectively, at the operating water treatment facility at the MIU. As well, collaborative research on groundwater treatment started in 2006 between the Environmental and Industrial Materials Research Division, Quantum Beam Science Directorate and the Tono Geoscientific Research Unit, Geological Isolation Research and Development Directorate on a novel method to remove the fluorine and boron. The Quantum Beam Directorate has synthesized fibrous adsorbents with radiation-induced graft polymerization and applied the adsorbents to collect rare metals dissolved in hot springs and sea water. The results of previous testing indicated that the adsorbent was able to remove more than 95% of the boron and fluorine and that performance of adsorbent for boron removal was better than the performance using ion-exchange resin. It was also apparent that the pH of groundwater had an influence on the performance of the adsorbent with respect to boron removal. Therefore we reran the recycling tests using groundwater from the neutralization tank at the groundwater treatment facility were repeated. The results indicated that the performance of the adsorbent using neutral groundwater for boron removal was higher than using uncontrolled groundwater. However the bed volume (BV) with recycled adsorbent decreased compared to first use. It is thought that sulfur added at the groundwater treatment facility was retained by the adsorbent despite elution, and affected the performance such that repeat usage resulted in decreased efficiency. In addition, it is considered that the goals established in the first

Gerardo Molina y el Estado providente

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Cataño , Gonzalo

2004-12-01

Full Text Available En este ensayo Gonzalo Cataño examina la visión del Estado del notable pensador y dirigente socialista colombiano, Gerardo Molina. Ofrece una breve información biográfica y comenta su enfoque sobre las funciones del aparato estatal. Aunque en la exposición predomina un tono crítico, muestra que las limitaciones de un analista inteligente de los asuntos públicos son más instructivas que las consideraciones correctas de un comentarista trivial de la política. En este trabajo se denomina por Estado providente ¿conocido también como asistencial o de bienestar¿ al que garantiza niveles mínimos de ingreso, salud, alimentación, vivienda, educación y trabajo, como derecho político y no como beneficencia.

Macchine per giuoco nella proposta di Leopardi

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Laura Neri

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Un’operetta morale di Leopardi, la Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi, adotta il linguaggio tecnico di un bando di concorso per proporre tre premi agli inventori di tre macchine umane perfette: l’amicizia, la magnanimità, la fedeltà coniugale sono gli obiettivi delle invenzioni scientifiche. Il tono serio cela in realtà la  polemica contro l’antropocentrismo e soprattutto contro l’ottimismo del suo tempo.  One of Leopardi’s Operette morali, Proposta di premi fatta dall’Accademia dei Sillografi, adopts the gergon of a competition notice to propose three prizes to the inventors of three perfect human machines: friendship, magnanimity, conjugal fidelity are the aims of scientific inventions. The serious tone really conceals the controversy against anthropocentrism and above all against the optimism of its time.

Effect of excavation method on rock mass displacement

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Sato, Toshinori; Kikuchi, Tadashi; Sugihara, Kozo

1998-01-01

Rock mass displacement measurements have been performed to understand rock mass behavior and its dependence on excavation method during drift excavation at the Tono mine. Rock mass displacements of 1.46 mm and 0.67 mm have been measured at one meter (0.33D: blasting, 0.42D: machine, D: width of drift) from the walls of drifts excavated by the drill and blasting method and machine, respectively. Numerical analysis of rock mass displacements with Finite Element Method has been performed assuming an excavation disturbed zone. Measured and analysed rock mass displacements are consistent with each other for the drift excavation by the drill and blasting method. The excavation disturbed zone was narrower for the drift excavated by machine than for the drift excavated by the drill and blasting method. (author)

Current status of regional hydrogeological studies and numerical simulations on geological disposal

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Nakao, Shinsuke; Kikuchi, Tsuneo; Ishido, Tsuneo

2004-01-01

Current status of regional hydrogeological studies on geological disposal including hydrogeological modeling using numerical simulators is reviewed in this report. A regional scale and boundary conditions of numerical models are summarized mainly from the results of the RHS (regional hydrogeological study) project conducted by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) in the Tono area. We also refer to the current conceptual modes of hydrology and numerical models of unsaturated zone flow at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, which is the arid site proposed for consideration as the United States' first underground high-level radioactive waste repository. Understanding behavior of a freshwater-saltwater transition zone seems to play a key role in the hydrogeological modeling in a coastal region. Technical features of a numerical simulator as a tool for geothermal reservoir modeling is also briefly described. (author)

Report on an analytical survey on the Pacific energy information; Taiheiyo energy joho bunseki chosa hokokusho

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1996-03-01

For the purpose of collecting and arranging energy information in the Asia and Pacific region, this survey has been conducted for many fiscal years. The Asia and Pacific region is classified into the Chinese area, the Southeast Asia area including Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippine, Singapore and Thailand, the East Asia area including Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the North America area including the U.S. and Canada, and the Oceania area including Australia and New Zealand. As to the primary energy supplied from 1980 to 1993, China largely increased its share by 3.1%. The Southeast Asia also increased its share by 2.1%, and the East Asia by 2.5%. To the contrary, the North America area largely declined its share by 7.8%, but still has approximately 60% in the Asia and Pacific area. By kind of energy, coal increased the share while oil decreased. 16 figs., 7 tabs.

Report on the analytical survey of the Pacific energy information; Taiheiyo energy joho bunseki chosa hokokusho

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1997-03-01

Arrangement, investigation and analysis of an energy information exchange system were conducted, with the aim of coping with the development in the whole Asia/Pacific area, the stabilization of energy supply/demand, and the environmental problem and of realizing effective cooperation of every country in the area. Concerning the trend of the domestic primary energy supply/demand, there are some patterns. Countries which show high growth rates are developing countries such as Thailand and China, and NIES such as Korea and Taiwan. Countries where growth rates are slowing down and lowering are developed countries such as Australia, Canada, Japan and the U.S. Countries where energy supply/demand is not stabilized are Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Chile which are suffering from variations in import/export. The ultimate energy consumption is the domestic primary energy supply from which the conversion loss in the conversion sector was deducted, and indicates almost the same trend as the primary energy supply. It is divided into a stabilized type of developed countries and a rapidly increasing type and a stagnant type. However, there are some exceptions. Total data in the quarter of the year cannot be the yearly data by itself, but requires a year-end tax arrangement. 40 tabs.

Reviews on the metallogenic and geological features of sandstone-type uranium deposits in Japan

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Pei Chengkai; Huang Xianfang; Zhang Baoju

2006-01-01

Regional geologic settings of sandstone-type uranium deposits in Japan are firstly analyzed. The regional tectonic evolution characteristics of 'Green tuff region' and 'Non green tuff region' and their relationship with uranium mineralization are elaborated in depth. Based on those mentioned above, the uranium sources of sandstone-type uranium deposits in Japan are discussed deeply and the most favorable uranium sources are considered to come from the basement and the surrounding granites. Their intrusive epochs range from Later Cretaceous to Palaeogene (about 60 to 70 Ma ago). The characteristics of ore-bearing host rocks, matter compositions of the deposits, ore formation enrichment factors, the hydrogeologic conditions and so on are described by taking Ningyo-Toge and Tono deposits as examples. Finally, the prospecting measures for the palaeo-channel sandstone-type uranium deposits (basal type) are reviewed. (authors)

La entonación de enunciados declarativos e interrogativos en chino mandarín hablado por taiwaneses

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Wei-Li Kao

2014-11-01

Full Text Available El presente trabajo de investigación tiene el propósito de describir la entonación de los enunciados declarativos e interrogativos absolutos del chino mandarín hablado por taiwaneses. Teniendo en cuenta este objetivo, se ha elaborado un corpus de habla espontánea y se ha analizado siguiendo el método Análisis Melódico del Habla. El corpus está basado en 88 enunciados emitidos por 44 informantes, que provienen de las emisiones de dos programas de televisión taiwaneses. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que los enunciados declarativos e interrogativos absolutos tienen tendencia a finalizar con un contorno descendente leve, y además, se ha observado que el tono de los fonemas se modifica según la entonación del grupo fónico.

Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project. Annual report for fiscal year 2007

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Nishio, Kazuhisa; Matsuoka, Toshiyuki; Tsuruta, Tadahiko; Amano, Kenji; Ohyama, Takuya; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Hama, Katsuhiro; Mizuno, Takashi; Sai, Masataka; Hirano, Toru; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi; Matsui, Hiroya; Ogata, Nobuhisa; Uchida, Masahiro; Sugihara, Kozo; Mikake, Shinichiro; Ikeda, Koki; Yamamoto, Masaru

2009-03-01

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) at Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) is developing a geoscientific research project named Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) Project in crystalline rock environment in order to establish scientific and technological basis for geological disposal of HLW. Geoscientific research at MIU is planned to be carried out in three phases over a period of 20 years; Surface-based Investigation Phase (Phase I), Construction Phase (Phase II) and Operation Phase (Phase III). Currently, the project is under the Construction Phase. This document presents the following results of the research and development performed in fiscal year 2007, as a part of the Construction Phase based on the MIU Master Plan updated in 2002, 1) Investigation at the MIU Construction Site and the Shobasama Site, 2) Construction at the MIU Construction Site, 3) Research Collaboration. (author)

Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project. Annual report for fiscal year 2005

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Nishio, Kazuhisa; Matsuoka, Toshiyuki; Tsuruta, Tadahiko; Amano, Kenji; Ohyama, Takuya; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Hama, Katsuhiro; Mizuno, Takashi; Sai, Masataka; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi; Ogata, Nobuhisa; Uchida, Masahiro; Sugihara, Kozo; Mikake, Shinichiro; Ikeda, Koki; Yamamoto, Masaru; Yoshida, Haruo; Nakama, Shigeo; Seno, Yasuhiro; Kuroda, Hidetaka; Semba, Takeshi

2009-03-01

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) at Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) is developing a geoscientific research project named Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project in crystalline rock environment in order to establish scientific and technological basis for geological disposal of HLW. Geoscientific research at MIU is planned to be carried out in three phases over a period of 20 years; Surface-based Investigation Phase (Phase 1), Construction Phase (Phase 2) and Operation Phase (Phase 3). Currently, the project is under the Construction Phase. This document presents the following results of the research and development performed in 2005 fiscal year, as a part of the Construction Phase based on the MIU Master Plan updated in 2002, 1) Investigation at the MIU Construction Site and the Shobasama Site, 2) Construction at the MIU Construction Site, 3) Research Collaboration. (author)

Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project. Annual report for fiscal year 2008

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Takeuchi, Shinji; Kunimaru, Takanori; Nishio, Kazuhisa; Tsuruta, Tadahiko; Matsuoka, Toshiyuki; Hayano, Akira; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Ohyama, Takuya; Mizuno, Takashi; Hirano, Toru; Ogata, Nobuhisa; Hama, Katsuhiro; Iyatomi, Yosuke; Shimada, Akiomi; Matsui, Hiroya; Ito, Hiroaki; Sugihara, Kozo; Mikake, Shinichiro; Ikeda, Koki; Yamamoto, Masaru

2010-07-01

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) at Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) is developing a geoscientific research project named Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) Project in crystalline rock environment in order to establish scientific and technological basis for geological disposal of HLW. Geoscientific research at MIU is planned to be carried out in three phases over a period of 20 years; Surface-based Investigation Phase (Phase 1), Construction Phase (Phase 2) and Operation Phase (Phase 3). Currently, the project is under the Construction Phase. This document presents the following results of the research and development performed in fiscal year 2008, as a part of the Construction Phase based on the MIU Master Plan updated in 2002, 1) Investigation at the MIU Construction Site and the Shobasama Site, 2) Construction at the MIU Construction Site, 3) Research Collaboration. (author)

Criterios de combinación de colores para la arquitectura en Salubra I: estudio de tonos

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Serra Lluch, Juan de Ribera; Llopis Verdú, Jorge; Torres Barchino, Ana María; Giménez Ribera, Manuel

2016-01-01

[EN] We have carried out a new study of the color combinations selected by Le Corbusier in the ‘claviers’ for the Salubra wallpaper company in 1931, by analyzing them in the Natural Color System NCS, which allows us to understand the perceptive variables of colors (hue, blackness and chromaticness) as well as their combination criteria. In this paper, the selected hue ranges are discussed, and those absent ones. We aim to find out the underlying order in the color combinations by ...

Manned space flight activities and sensory-motor coordinations; Yujin uchu katsudo tono hito no kankaku undokei

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Koga, K. [Nagoya Univ., Nagoya (Japan). Research Inst. of Environmental Medicine

1996-03-05

With an objective to elucidate relationship between human functions related to gravity in space and the gravity, simultaneous measurement was carried out on impulsive eyeball motions and antigravity muscles. The measurement used a non-polarized electrode mounted on a prescribed position on skin. The subject is a spacecraft crew who was subjected to an experiment in space in 1992. Data obtained during the flight were analyzed, and the following findings were obtained: the eyeball motions are performed accurately in terms of space and time; potential time relative to the target appearance time showed greater variation than in control conditions on the ground; activities of trapezius muscle as an antigravity muscle were suppressed, and electric discharge from the muscle was small even if the head is moved; the eyeballs move in coordination with the head when viewing an object; microgravity environment showed a head motion with very little muscle discharge possible as in the case where the head is held unmoved; and difference in motion patterns between the antigravity muscles and non-antigravity muscles may exist as a possible cause of spacesickness in addition to the conventional sensory disagreement theory. 32 refs., 6 figs.

Survey o methods for secure connection to the internet; Internet tono anzenna setsuzoku hoshiki no genjo

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Matsui, S

1994-04-01

This paper describes a study of a security method of protecting inside network computers against outside miscreants and unwelcome visitors and a control method when these computers are connected with the Internet. In the present Internet, a method to encipher all data cannot be used, so that it is necessary to utilize PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) capable of the encipherment and conversion of secret information. For preventing miscreant access by eavesdropping password, one-time password is effective. The most cost-effective method is a firewall system. This system lies between the outside and inside network. By limiting computers that directly communicate with the Internet, control is centralized and inside network Security is protected. If the security of firewall systems is strictly controlled under correct setting, security within the network can be secured even in open networks such as the Internet. 35 refs., 3 figs.

Possible Solutions of Various Transport Problems; O nakhozhdenii reshenij nekotorykh zadach perenosa

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Lebedev, V. I. [Institut Atomnoj Ehnergii Im. I.V. Kurchatova Moskva, SSSR (Russian Federation)

1968-01-15

Let x = (x{sub 1}....,x{sub q}), R{sub q}(x) be the q-dimensional space (q{>=}2), s be the unit vector, and #Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos# the surface of the unit sphere. The problem of solving transport equations with a degenerate scattering indicatrix is a multidimensional problem in R{sub q}x#Greek Capital Letter Omega With Tonos#; the nature of these problems calls for rapidly converging iterative methods which do not require all the information on the preceding step. The paper proposes a KP method: the idea consists in solving in R{sub q} simplified problems of error determination using successive iterative steps of decreasing difficulty. Two operations are performed in the KP: the K-operation is a simple iteration in R{sub q}x{Omega} and operation P = {l_brace}P{sub 1}(n{sub 1}),...P{sub 0}(n{sub 0}){r_brace} is for the error with P{sub k} (n{sub k}) representing the solution in R{sub q} of the ultimate problem for a differential equation of order 2n{sub k}. P-operations are found and the convergence of the following methods is studied: KP{sub 1}(n), P{sub 2}(0), K{sup 2}P{sub 1}(n), cyclic KP{sub 1}(1) and KP{sub 1}(0) etc. For 2{pi}T periodic problems the convergence is estimated, P(KP) (KP price) and cheap algorithms are found, and the non-improvability is shown. Numerical calculations indicated that the KP method is very efficient. The Case results are generalized for the q-dimensional case: in Rqx{Omega} a system of solutions is found for a homogeneous single-velocity transport equation with constant coefficients and an isotropic scattering indicatrix {Phi}{sub {omega}}(S)exp({+-}(x, {omega})/v) These are generalized functions with {sub v}#Greek Lunate Epsilon Symbol#{l_brace}(-1, 1], {+-} v{sub 0}{r_brace} and {omega} #Greek Lunate Epsilon Symbol#. Theorems are proved for the completeness of {l_brace}{Phi}{sub v{omega}}{r_brace} in L{sub 2}({Omega}), for the partial orthogonality of and the possibility of representing {psi}#Greek Lunate Epsilon

Correlation between the neonatal EEG and the neurological examination in the first year of life in infants with bacterial meningitis Correlación entre el EEG neonatal y el examen neurológico en el primer año de vida en recién nacidos con meningitis bacteriana

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Adrián Poblano

2007-09-01

Full Text Available OBJECTIVE: To assess the contribution of neonatal electroencephalogram (EEG and its correlation with the neurological examination at age of 9 months in newborns with bacterial neonatal meningitis. METHOD: Twenty seven infants were studied with positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF culture for bacteria. We used the worse EEG result during acute phase of meningitis, and performed neurologic follow-up after discharge from hospital. Background cerebral activity was classified as normal or mildly, moderately, or markedly abnormal. Neurologic examination outcomes was classified normal, mild abnormalities, moderate abnormalities and severe abnormalities. RESULTS: EEG performed in the neonatal period during acute bacterial meningitis predicts adverse outcome early at age of 9 months, and had a significant correlation with cephalic perimeter and active tone alterations. CONCLUSION: Neonatal EEG is useful for predicting abnormal outcomes, especially cephalic perimeter and active tone abnormalities at 9 months of age in infants with bacterial neonatal meningitis.OBJETIVO: Medir la contribución del electroencefalograma (EEG neonatal y su correlación con el examen neurológico a la edad de 9 meses en recién nacidos con meningitis neonatal bacteriana. MÉTODO: Se estudió a 27 neonatos con cultivos positivos de líquido cefalorraquídeo a bacterias. Se uso el peor resultado del EEG obtenido durante el periodo agudo de la meningitis. El seguimiento neurológico se efectuó tras el egreso hospitalario. La actividad de fondo del EEG se clasificó en normal y anormal leve, moderada y severa. El examen neurológico se clasificó en normal, y anormal leve moderado y severo. RESULTADOS: El EEG realizado durante el periodo neonatal durante la fase aguda de la meningitis bacteriana predice bien un resultado adverso a la edad de 9 meses, con correlaciones significativas con el perímetro cefálico y con las alteraciones del tono activo. CONCLUSION: El EEG neonatal es

Análisis de requerimientos y diseño de modelo de datos para el desarrollo de una solución ERP vertical adaptada al sector cerámico

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Oltra-Badenes, R. F.

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Currently, the existing information systems, and specifically the ERP, can not give adequate support to the management of manufacturing companies of ceramic tile, because, among other reasons, not to contemplate the existence of tone, size and quality within the same product. This feature, caused by the lack of homogeneity of the product (LHP, generates various problems in managing the product through the different business processes, such as, stocks management, order management, the production management, etc. Thus, it is necessary to develop an ERP solution that is able to manage adequately the ceramic product, including tone, size and quality. In this paper we analyze the requirements of the ceramic sector, in terms of product identification, and propose a data model to meet these requirements. The model arises as a basic guide for the development of vertical ERP solutions tailored to the ceramic industry.En la actualidad, los sistemas de información existentes, y en concreto los ERP, no pueden dar un soporte adecuado a la gestión de las empresas de fabricación de baldosa cerámica, debido, entre otros motivos, a que no contemplan la existencia del tono, calibre y calidad dentro de un mismo producto. Esta particularidad, ocasionada por la falta de homogeneidad del producto (FHP, genera diversas problemáticas en la gestión del producto a través de los diferentes procesos de la empresa, como por ejemplo; la gestión de stocks, la gestión de pedidos de venta, la gestión de producción, etc. Así pues, se hace necesario el desarrollo de una solución ERP que sea capaz de gestionar el producto cerámico de forma adecuada, incluyendo tono, calibre y calidad. En este trabajo se analizan los requerimientos del sector cerámico, en cuanto a la identificación de los productos, y se propone un modelo de datos para dar respuesta a dichos requerimientos. El modelo se plantea como una guía básica para el desarrollo de soluciones ERP verticales

Effect of Topical Calcium Channel Blockers on Intraocular Pressure in Steroid-induced Glaucoma.

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Ganekal, Sunil; Dorairaj, Syril; Jhanji, Vishal; Kudlu, Krishnaprasad

2014-01-01

To evaluate the effect of 0.125% verapamil and 0.5% diltiazem eye drops on intraocular pressure (IOP) in steroid-induced glaucoma in rabbit eyes. A total of 18 rabbits with steroid-induced glaucoma were divided into three groups (A, B and C; n = 6 each). Right eyes in groups A, B and C received 0.5% diltiazem, 0.125% verapamil and 0.5% timolol eye drops twice daily for 12 days, respectively; whereas, left eyes received distilled water. IOP was measured with Tono-pen XL at baseline, day 4, day 8, and day 12 of treatment. Both 0.5% diltiazem and 0.125% verapamil eye drops significantly reduced IOP compared to control eyes (p cite this article: Ganekal S, Dorairaj S, Jhanji V, Kudlu K. Effect of Topical Calcium Channel Blockers on Intraocular Pressure in Steroid-induced Glaucoma. J Current Glau Prac 2014;8(1):15-19.

Study on improved procedure for determination of three dimensional distributions of the initial rock stresses. 2

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Mizuta, Yoshiaki

2003-02-01

In the fiscal year of 2002, our committee achieved the following work items during the contract period, from August 28th, 2002 to February 7th, 2003. Confirm mutual understanding with respect to the geological/geometrical data provided from Tono Geoscience Center and exchange procedure for taking those into each numerical models. The numerical models by finite element Method and Finite Difference Method were built taking strata data into account. A problem accompanying to back analysis for inhomogeneous modeling was brought up. A new 3D Boundary Element Method Code in which integrations to calculate the influence coefficients are carried out analytically and thus, the solutions with high accuracy can be given faster. Three examples of determination procedures, wide region model by FEM, small region model by FEM and intermediate region model by FDM were introduced. This is the report as the results of the studies mentioned above. (author)

La reproducción de experimentos históricos en relación con la forja de ethos científico

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Sierra, C.

2006-01-01

Full Text Available Se propone en este ensayo la imbricación natural entre el experimento recreativo típico y su contexto histórico por la vía de la reproducción de experimentos históricos de valor pedagógico, no sólo en los niveles elementales de la enseñanza científica, sino en el universitario, con miras al fomento de un modo científico natural de entender el mundo, un ethos científico. Se justifica lo anterior desde la óptica sugerida por la antropología filosófica a fin de no escindir en forma tajante el experimento recreativo del histórico, a buen tono con el concepto de formación integral. Así mismo, se ilustra lo anterior con ejemplos emanados de la experiencia educativa del autor.

Research report for fiscal 1998 on the analysis of spread effect of technologies approved as international standards. Value web analysis and research; 1998 nendo kokusai hyojun ni ninteisareta gijutsu no hakyu koka bunseki chosa hokokusho. Value wave bunseki chosa

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1999-03-01

For contributing to the formulation of technology development programs, an analysis is conducted based on the concept of value web into which the economic spread effect is incorporated. As information technology plays an important role in the fields of automobiles and chemical materials, there are various fields the research and development efforts exerted in which are common to many others. As to what additional values are created when such separately developed technologies cross each other, a discussion is conducted using techniques of industry-oriented analyses. Findings obtained are mentioned below. When the numbers of essays relative to the respective industries are compared, it is found that 63% of the total number of biotechnological essays fall on agriculture, the drug industry, and the food industry. On the other hand, when it comes to the produce, related industries larger in marketing scale is more strongly influenced by the spread effect. The spread effect of biotechnology is distinguished in the drug industry, and that of information/communication technology in the information industry, electric and electronic industries, and in the semiconductor industry. (NEDO)

Digitalización de diapositivas del Sol en H α

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Missio, H.; Montenegro, C.; Montenegro, R.

El objetivo de este trabajo ha sido el de obtener imágenes digitalizadas de las diapositivas tomadas del Sol en luz de hidrógeno de la línea correspondiente a Hα, y de esta manera llegar a convertir las mismas a un archivo digital para poder ser tratadas luego por computadora y poder contabilizar con exactitud, mediante un programa adecuado para tal fin, las zonas activas del Sol en la imagen digitalizada. En principio, para llegar a esto se pensó en la utilización de medios accesibles, y como detector se utilizó un fototransistor ubicado dentro de un soporte rectangular sobre dos ejes de desplazamiento X e Y. Se han obtenido con este procedimiento imágenes de buena calidad, construídas a partir de tres datos digitalizados en cada barrido que aportan la posición X e Y y la intensidad del pixel en ese punto indicada en 255 tonos de grises.

Investigated conductive fracture in the granitic rocks by flow-meter logging

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Ogata, Nobuhisa; Koide, Kaoru; Takeichi, Atsushi

1997-01-01

Test of the use of a measurement technique for the hydraulic conductivity of geological structures which act as flow paths or are impermeable to groundwater flow. In order to prove the value of flow-meter logging as an in-situ technique for detecting conductive fractures in granitic rocks, the method has been applied to a borehole near the Tono uranium mine, Gifu, Japan. This study in involved with detecting a conductive fracture and calculating the hydraulic conductivities. The results were as follows: (1) In a zone of groundwater inflow into the borehole, the hydraulic conductivity was calculated to be of the order of the 10 -3 - 10 -4 (cm/sec) from flow-meter logging. This value agreed with the results of a in-situ borehole permeability test carried out with a similar depth interval. (2) The study showed that flow-meter logging is effective for detecting the distribution of high conductivity fractures and calculating the hydraulic conductivity. (author)

Expectativas y limitaciones de la democracia en la Sevilla del Sexenio (1868-1874

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Eloy Arias Castañón

1990-01-01

Full Text Available Frente a las limitaciones ideológicas y políticas del régimen isabelino surgió en 1868 un relanzamiento político promovido a través de una coalición compuesta de unionistas, progresistas y demócratas en torno a un programa que tenía como puntos fundamentales el derrocamiento de la monarquía de Isabel II y el planteamiento de un nuevo sistema sustantado en la soberanía nacional y que tendría que ser definido en unas Cortes Constituyentes elegidas por sufragio universal. Se partía así de unas perspectivas liberalizadoras y éstas terminaron por asentarse a través de ios programas de las juntas revolucionarias y de la presión popular que incorporaron toda una serie de reivindicaciones de libertades y derechos de los ciudadanos imponiéndose el tono democrático típico del movimiento revolucionario de 1868.

La ética como imprescindible ficción antropológica

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Luciano Espinosa Rubio

2013-12-01

Full Text Available [ES] Hablar de ética, como de cualquier otra cosa, es tratar de la vida humana desde una mirada obviamente finita y eso aconseja cierta humildad en el tono y asumir el carácter provisional de las afirmaciones. Se trata de un discurso contingente, aunque no se reconozca, como la propia peripecia atribulada de los hombres, donde las mayúsculas y los absolutos son inadecuados porque menosprecian la menuda realidad de los hechos y conducen al choque sectario. [EN] To speak of Ethics, as of anything else, is to deal with human life from an obviously finite look, and that advises certain humility in tone and to assume the provisional nature of the statements. This is a contingent speech, although it may not be recognized, as the troubled vicissitudes of men, where capital letters and absolutes are inadequate because they disparage the minute reality of facts and lead to sectarian clash.

A Ramón Valdés, In Memoriam.

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Joan Prat

2012-06-01

Full Text Available I. Cuando Verena Stolcke y poco después Aurelio Díaz me invitaron a participar en este acto de homenaje y memoria a Ramón Valdés del Toro pensé, en primer lugar,que prepararía algo sobre el papel de Ramón en los inicios de la Antropología española.Comencé a escribirlo pero resultaba un texto demasiado erudito, aburrido y difícil de digerir. En esta situación de stand by agradecí un correo electrónico de Verena en el que se nos instaba a “intervenir a vuestro aire en torno a vuestros recuerdos personales del magisterio y de la obra de Ramón”. Respiré aliviado ya que esto me resultaba mucho más cómodo y gratificante. En las líneas que siguen no he dedicado mucho esfuerzo a disimular el tono coloquial que tuvo la intervención oral.

SIDA: Opiniones de Líderes de Dos Denominaciones

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Lorna D. Torres López

2007-01-01

Full Text Available Ante el problema de salud urgente que plantea el VIH/SIDA para Puerto Rico, decidimos explorar el rol que las iglesias protestantes podrían asumir en su prevención. Se entrevistaron siete líderes religiosos/as de las denominaciones Discípulos de Cristo y Evangélica Unida para conocer sus recomendaciones en torno a las estrategias, temas, y personas que deben recibir y facilitar esfuerzos de prevención desde las iglesias. También se indagó sobre la disponibilidad de recursos para implantar estos esfuerzos. Todos/as expresaron que las iglesias protestantes deben participar en la prevención del VIH/SIDA. Recomendaron que un equipo multidisciplinario ofrezca charlas y talleres sobre temas como la abstinencia y la masturbación con énfasis en la juventud. Manifestaron que las iglesias cuentan con recursos para implantar las estrategias propuestas. Incluimos recomendaciones a tono con estos resultados.

Excavation of shafts and research galleries at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory. Construction work of MIU part 4. Construction progress report, fiscal year 2010-2011

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2014-11-01

This progress report presents an outline compilation of construction activities, primary tasks performed, construction progress and safety patrol report, in fiscal year 2010-2011. The outline of construction activities is a summary based on the scope of work planned in 2010-2011: the main activities are based on the Tono Geoscience Center weekly reports; and the construction progress is based on the planned and actual schedules. The safety patrol report is based on defects recording by the safety manager of the Geoscience Facility Construction Section. Regarding the plan and actual performance of the construction work of MIU part IV (March 16, 2010 - March 15, 2012) performance carried out from April 1, 2010 until March 15, 2012 is described in this report. The attached appendices have been provided: regarding content in the excavated material bellowing the environmental standards, technical specifications of fiscal year 2010-2011 in construction work of MIU part IV, also photos of construction activities. (author)

Is Lexicography Making Progress? On Dictionary Use and Language Learners' Needs

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Michaël Abecassis

2011-10-01

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Abstract: This article sets out to explore the ways native speakers as well as foreign language learners use dictionaries and the strategies dictionary users adopt in the language acquisition process. The basis for this article is a corpus of six books (in chronological order Atkins (Ed. 1998, Nesi 2000, Tono 2001, Humbl? 2001, Sin-wai (Ed. 2004 and Thumb 2004 that look at both the usage of bilingual, monolingual and bilingualised dictionaries and the users' behaviour in the consultation process. Both the bilingual and monolingual dictionaries seem to be used independently, depending on whether the user wants to utilise them for comprehension, translation or production with regard to a foreign language. As pointed out in the literature on lexicography, some of these dictionaries, though they have undergone many changes over the years, still have serious limitations as learning tools, but the user's performance is also under investigation in empirical research, with the aim of optimising dictionary effectiveness as well as developing the language learner's skills.

Keywords: LEXICOGRAPHY, MONOLINGUAL, BILINGUAL, BILINGUALISED, DIC-TIONARIES, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, DICTIONARY USER, LOOK-UP STRATEGIES, THINK-ALOUD, TRANSLATION, CORPUS, SKILLS

Opsomming: Maak leksikografie vordering? Oor woordeboekgebruik en taalaanleerders se behoeftes. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om die maniere te verken waarop beide moedertaalsprekers en vreemdetaalaanleerders woordeboeke gebruik en die strate-gieë wat woordeboekgebruikers toepas by die taalverwerwingsproses. Die basis vir hierdie artikel is 'n korpus van ses boeke (in chronologiese volgorde Atkins (Red. 1998, Nesi 2000, Tono 2001, Humblé 2001, Sin-wai (Red. 2004 en Thumb 2004 wat kyk na sowel die gebruik van tweetalige, eentalige en vertweetaligde woordeboeke as die gebruikers se gedrag by die raadplegingsproses. Beide die tweetalige en eentalige woordeboeke word skynbaar onafhanklik gebruik

Menopausia, una endocrinopatía: Atrofia Urogenital y Trastornos de la Sexualidad

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Roberto Vergara Tamara

1995-08-01

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La atrofia urogonital causada por el estímulo deficiente estrogenito se manifiesta principalmente en la vagina, donde la mucosa sufre un adelgazamiento gradual que permite el predominio de células parabasales e intermedias propias del hipoestrogenismo, volviéndolo altamente sensible al trauma y la infección.

Clínicamente se traduce en disminución de la humedad vaginal, sensación de llenura en el intróito, ruptura fácil de capilares vaginales con aparición de petequias, irritación, prurito y dispareunia.

A nivel del endometrio se pueden presentar uno de los siguientes cambios: proliferación débil, atrofia senil, hiperplasia quística, hiperplasia adenomatosa, neoplasia omás raramente trastorno secretor; cambios que corresponden clínicamente a intervalos oligomenorreicos interpuestos por episodios hemorrágicos que finalmente terminan en amenorrea definitiva. En casos de sangrados postoriores ameritaría estudios anatomopatológicos de control obtenidos por biopsia o legrado uterino. Otros cambios que se presentan en el útero incluyen la pérdida de tono en sus ligamentos y elementos de sostén así comola disminución del cuello y su secreción.

A nivel urinario la pérdida del tono uretral cursará con prolapso de la mucosa a través del meato, uretritis ahacteriana recurrente manifestada por poliaquiuria, disuria de ardor e incluso incontinencia urinaria de esfuerzo.

Los cambios descritos anteriormente, hacen que la sexualidad femenina sea perturbada al presentarse dispareunia, disminuyendo de ritmo sexual y libido de la mujer haciendo su vida de pareja difícil y caótica. Se ha descrito también que la disminución de estrógenos produce ansiedad, depresión, tensión e irritabilidad al no permitir la disociación del triptófano de la albúmina para así formar sustancias tales como la hidroxitriptamina que participa en el mejoramiento del estado de ánimo. Esta etapa será de adaptación difícil y

ANÁLISE FITOGEOGRÁFICA DA FLORA ARBUSTIVO-ARBÓREA EM ECÓTONO NO PLANALTO DA BODOQUENA, MS, BRASIL

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Carmen Beatriz Reiss Zavala

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Setting priorities in the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems refers to the need for knowledge about the diversity of environments, especially in the Cerrado biome and its floristic transition zones, already in high stage of degradation. With this scenario, t his study aimed to carry out a floristic inventory of a forest fragment on ecological tension in Bodoquena Plateau, MS, Brazil, and assess their phytogeographical relationships with other surveys of seasonal forests and savannas in the Midwest and Southeast regions of Brazil. For this, 102 contiguous plots of 10x10 m (100 m 2 were sampled. The inclusion criterion was the perimeter at breast height (PBH ≥ 15 cm. For floristic similarity analysis, the coefficient of Sorensen was applied, adopting the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA, with the determination of the level of similarity of 26 floristic lists. Of the 96 species occurring in this survey, 91 were identified at species level, and of these, 80.2% (73 were found in one or more studies of the analyzed areas with higher occurrence in seasonal deciduous forest (SDF (54, followed by seasonal semideciduous forest (SSF (47 and forested savannah (46. The results showed clustering of the study area with the FED of Minas Gerais in level of 30%, revealing low similarity. Due to low floristic similarity between the analyzed areas, these are characterized by their high beta diversity.

Analysis of a DSM program using an end use model; End use model wo mochiita DSM program no bunseki

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Asano, H.; Takahashi, M.; Okada, K. [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)

1997-01-30

An end use model used in the United States who is advanced in demand-side management (DSM) was used to discuss possibilities of designing and evaluating Japan`s future DSM measures. The end use model assumes energy demand based on such factors as device characteristics, meteorological data, energy prices, user characteristics, market characteristics and DSM measures. The model calculates energy demand amount by end uses basically by multiplying assumptions on device unit requirement, device retention rate, and number of users. A representative tool as an end use model that handles load shapes is the hourly electric load model (HELM). It assumes an annual load curve and predicts a maximum system load. The present discussions have performed estimation on demand for consumer use air conditioners in a day in which a maximum summer load occurs in a reference year, estimation on load in a maximum load day in an estimated year, and estimation on weather sensitivity of loads. 5 refs., 5 figs.

Fiscal 1999 research report. Simulation analysis on petroleum substituting energy; 1999 nendo sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2000-03-01

This report summarizes the fiscal 1999 research result on simulation analysis on petroleum substituting energy. The simulation model for analyzing social and energy supply and demand structures comprehensively was established by improving the China and Korea models developed in fiscal 1998 through a use of input-output tables. In simulation of the China model, the reference case showed that a primary energy demand in 2030 reaches 3.3 times as much as that in 1997 (2.9 times in CO{sub 2}), resulting in serious energy and environment problems. Reduction of primary energy and CO{sub 2} is possible by promotion of energy saving and introduction of a carbon tax. In simulation of the Korea model, the reference case showed that CO{sub 2} emission in 2030 reaches 2.2 times as much as that in 1997, showing an annual increase rate of 2.4%. The annual increase rate can be reduced by introducing a carbon tax. The simulation model for automobile energy was also established for major countries in Asia. Automobile energy consumption increases with diffusion of automobiles until 2030 gradually. In particular, the consumption in China reaches that in Japan in 2010. (NEDO)

Estimation of groundwater flow at the site of Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory by the inversion of surface tilt during drainage, submergence and re-drainage in excavation of shafts

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Narikawa, Tatsuya; Matsuki, Koji; Arai, Takashi; Ohyama, Takuya; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Takeuchi, Shinji

2009-01-01

The distribution of the change in groundwater volume at the site of Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory in the Tono area, Japan, was estimated by the inverse method proposed by the authors, using tilt data measured with four tiltmeters at the surface during drainage, submergence and re-drainage in excavation of shafts. Furthermore, the reliability of the results was evaluated by a model analysis for groundwater flow in a single ellipsoidal field. The results showed that the hydrogeological structure for the region of 1000 m x 1000 m in area and 100 m to 180 m in depth is such that groundwater flow occurs mainly in a region between two impermeable faults with the center at 100 m to 150 m south of the Main shaft and this region tends to shrink toward north-west and be widened toward south to south-east. However, at the same time, the model analysis showed that areas north-west and south-east of the Main shaft in the corners of the region are vacua for estimation due to the aligned layout of the tiltmeters. (author)

Design study of the underground facilities, the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory

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Ishizuka, Mineo; Noda, Masaru; Shiogama, Yukihiro; Adachi, Tetsuya

1999-02-01

Geoscientific research on the deep geological environment has been performed by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC). This research is supported by the 'Long-Term Program for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy'. The Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) is planned to be constructed at the Shobasama-bora site belonging to JNC. A wide range of geoscientific research and development activities which have been previously performed in and around the Tono mine is planned to be expanded in the laboratory. The MIU consisted of surface and underground facilities excavated to a depth of about 1,000 meters. In this design study, the overall layout and basic design of the underground facility and the composition of the overall research program, includes the construction of the underground facility are studied. Based on the concept of the underground facility which have been developed in 1998, the research activities which will be performed in the MIU are selected and the overall research program is revised in this year. The basic construction method and the construction equipment are also estimated. (author)

Autobiografia di un fisico

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Born, Max

1980-01-01

Questa non è solo un'autobiografia scientifica. Il ritratto che Max Born ci offre di se stesso va oltre il profilo dell'uomo di scienza, che pure è stato tra i maggiori del nostro secolo. Di lui veniamo a sapere tutto ciò che occorre per accostarsi alle teorie che gli valsero il premio Nobel, ma anche i tratti di una normale vita borghese nella quale si intrecciavano le influenze dell'ambiente intellettuale e commerciale. Il tono è quello di una rievocazione piana e distesa che ci accompagna per le varie fasi della carriera dello studente, del docente, dello scienziato, nelle università tedesche e inglesi, negli anni delle persecuzioni naziste, alle quali l'ebreo Max Born ebbe la fortuna di sopravvivere, e nel dopoguerra, quando egli tornò in Germania e seppe dare un contributo di idee e di iniziative ai movimenti pacifisti. E' la lunga e operosa vita di un uomo di genio, del quale si ricorda la profonda umanità, la vastità degli interessi culturali, l'acutezza dei giudizi sulle persone, sulle vicend...

Natural analogue studies for the long-term safety of radioactive waste disposal. Lessons learned from the nature

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Yusa, Yasuhisa

2002-01-01

'Natural analogues' can be defined as the processes or materials analogous to those operating in the geological disposal system of radioactive waste. Natural analogue studies provide the only means by which long-term data can be obtained under the real natural conditions, and also the most convincing support to the long-term performance assessment of the geological disposal system. The framework of our natural analogue studies concerning the stability of the engineered barrier materials for geological disposal system of high-level radioactive waste is reviewed. One of the results is that the volcanic glass included in a clay bed did not alter during the past one million years. The Tono Uranium Deposits are studied as geochemical analogues of radioactive waste disposal in Japan. We conclude that although the deposits have been subjected to a variety of geological processes and events such as faulting, erosion and uplift/subsidence, the reducing condition has been maintained and uranium has not migrated for at least the past ten million years. Application and further development of the natural analogue studies are also discussed. (author)

Taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho durante el embarazo

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Ariel K. Saad

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Durante el embarazo aumentan el metabolismo basal, el consumo de O2, la frecuencia cardíaca, el volumen sistólico, el volumen minuto y la volemia y disminuyen la tensión arterial y la resistencia periférica. Diferentes estudios han demostrado que durante este período la posibilidad de que ocurra una arritmia cardíaca o se produzca la exacerbación de una arritmia preexistente es mayor. No obstante, en su enorme mayoría carecen de importancia pronóstica tanto para la madre como para el feto. La taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho es una arritmia poco frecuente y su aparición se ha correlacionado con el aumento del tono adrenérgico. Se presentan los casos de dos pacientes que mostraron en el curso de la gestación reiterados episodios de taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho. Se analiza la asociación del embarazo con la ocurrencia de trastornos del ritmo cardíaco.

Information collection and analysis of geological characterization and evaluation technology and application to geological characterization study

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Kawamura, Hideki; Noda, Masaru; Nishikawa, Naohito; Sato, Shoko; Tanaka, Tatsuya

2003-03-01

Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) of Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute has been conducting the Regional Groundwater Investigation and Mizunami Underground Laboratory (MIU) Project in order to develop investigation technologies and evaluation methods of geological environment. At present, towards the next progress reporting on research and development for geological disposal of HLW in Japan, based on the existing research and development results, the projects which are conducted by TGC are required for promoting smoothly and efficiently with regard to the current Japanese HLW program. According to such situation, for planning of the geological environment investigation and research at TGC and the next progress reporting, this study has investigated and summarizes overseas environmental impact assessments for final disposal, overseas site characterization and site selection, and overseas research plan of underground research laboratories. Based on the results of investigation, some technologies which have possibility to be applied to the MIU Project have been studied. Also overseas quality assurance programs have been investigated, and examples of the application of their concepts to MIU project have been considered. (author)

Don Juan: eine Tragödie. Intertestualità faustiana e riscrittura tragica nel racconto di E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Francesco Marola

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Il mito letterario di don Giovanni, sorto nella commedia, attorno al 1800 viene riformulato in direzione del tragico. La trasformazione inizia con la versione operistica di Mozart-Da Ponte e trova compimento nel racconto di Hoffmann, che proietta il nuovo tono tragico del finale mozartiano su tutto il mito. L’articolo intende porre in rilievo la presenza nel Don Juan di numerosi richiami intertestuali al Faust di Goethe, finora non pienamente rilevati dalla critica, attraverso i quali è possibile leggere tale riscrittura tragica come una dichiarata sintesi dei due miti, in cui don Giovanni assume il ruolo di Faust-Mefistofele e donna Anna quello di Gretchen. La riscrittura del mito culmina nel finale rispecchiamento del narratore in Anna-Gretchen. Ma il valore del tragico è relativizzato in Hoffmann dall’ironica autocoscienza dell’artista romantico: confinato nel mondo fantastico dell’arte, risulta privo di senso nella prosaica realtà della vita borghese.

Development and enhancement of grouting technologies in the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (Contract research)

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Nobuto, Jun; Mikake, Shinichiro

2008-03-01

In the Tono Geoscience Center of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (hereafter, JAEA), Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project is being advanced to develop a scientific and technological basis for geological disposal. The concept of geological disposal is based on a multi-barrier system which combines a stable geological environment with an engineered barrier system (EBS). In order to develop a engineering basis for the construction of disposal system, the enhancement of grouting technologies among engineering technologies is needed. In this study, the comprehensive performance of suspension type grouting materials to seal rock fractures encountered in excavation works at deep underground has been checked, and the clogging phenomenon at the entrance of rock fractures has been investigated following the previous year. Research issues are as follows; Study on grouting concept to secure high-level water sealing, study on the test method to check grout clogging under high injection pressure, study on grouting material which can penetrate into finer fractures. Among these, in the study on penetrability test method, prototype test instruments were made and a series of preliminary tests were conducted. (author)

La autoevaluación institucional y su importancia en la educación superior Institutional self-appraisal and its importance in higher education

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Ricardo Figueroa Toala

2012-12-01

Full Text Available La autoevaluación institucional actualmente responde a las demandas de lograr una Universidad que esté a tono con los avances de la sociedad y a su vez se convierta en un reflejo de ella. En el artículo se realiza una valoración conceptual de las concepciones existentes sobre este proceso. Asimismo se ofrece una panorámica de las tendencias referidas a las diversas maneras de visualizar este fenómeno de innegable importancia para la vida y permanencia de las instituciones de educación superior.Nowadays, institutional self-appraisal meets the demands of creating a university that keeps up with the new advances of society, and at the same time a university that becomes the reflection of its society. A conceptual assessment of the existing conceptions of this process is carried out in this article. Likewise, it is given a panoramic view of the tendencies referring to the different ways of visualizing this phenomenon of undeniable importance for the life and permanence of the higher education institutions.

Amputação abdômino-perineal mais colostomia para-vaginal no tratamento do câncer reto-anal Abdomino-perineal amputation plus para-vaginal colostomy in the treatment of reto-anal cancer

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Alcino Lázaro da Silva

2009-12-01

Full Text Available O apresenta uma proposta e as tentativas iniciais para evitar a colostomia abdominal quando esta tem que ser definitiva. Na mulher foi possível a sua execução, desde que se aproveitou o tono da musculatura esfincteral vulvovaginal quando ela pode ser preservada na amputação de reto-ânus. O colo, preparado com as válvulas, desce posteriormente à vagina, por dentro do conjunto esfincteral vulvovaginal. As observações iniciais mostram que esta tentativa poderia ser incrementada para melhores estudos de continência.The Author presents a proposal and lhe initial attempties to avoid the abdominal colostomy when it has to be definitive. In the woman was possible its execution, since it took advantage from the vulvovaginal esfincteral muscle nohen it can be preserved ot the anus-rectum amputation. The colon, prepared wit the valves, descend posteriorily from the vagina, inside the vulvo-vaginal esfincteral group. The initial observations shows that this attempt could be better developed for cotinency etudies.

Design study of underground facility of the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory

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Ishizuka, Mineo; Noda, Masaru; Shiogama, Yukihiro; Adachi, Tetsuya

1999-02-01

Geoscientific research on deep geological environment has been performed by Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC). This research is supported by the 'Long-Term Program for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy'. The Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) is planned to be constructed at Shobasama-bora site belonging to JNC. A wide range of geoscientific research and development activities which have been previously performed in and around the Tono mine is planned to be expanded in the laboratory. The MIU is consisted of surface and underground facilities down to the depth of about 1,000 meters. In this design study, the overall layout and basic design of the underground facility and the composition of the overall research program which includes the construction of the underground facility are studied. Based on the concept of the underground facility which have been developed last year, the research activities which will be performed in the MIU are selected and the overall research program is revised in this year. The basic construction method and the construction equipment are also estimated. (author)

ENRIQUECIMENTO AMBIENTAL E COMPORTAMENTO DE SUÍNOS: REVISÃO / ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT AND BEHAVIOUR OF PIGS: REVIEW

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L. Foppa

2014-12-01

Full Text Available É cada vez maior a preocupação da comunidade científica e do mercado consumidor em relação aos métodos que os animais são produzidos. As novas exigências do mercado externo, em relação à qualidade ética dos produtos disponibilizados para o consumo, requerem novas técnicas direcionadas ao bem-estar animal. Na suinocultura industrial, os animais, geralmente, vivem confinados em todas as fases da vida. Portanto, estudos vêm sendo realizados para minimizar os efeitos do estresse gerados pelos monótonos ambientes de confinamento. O uso de objetos de enriquecimento ambiental pode ser uma alternativa viável de adaptação ao sistema de produção de suínos presente no Brasil. Contudo, sua eficácia ainda é limitada devido à rápida habituação dos suínos aos objetos disponibilizados. O objetivo deste artigo é revisar alternativas de enriquecimento ambiental usadas na suinocultura. 

Trabajadoras de la cigarrera El Buen Tono: Industria, publicidad y representaciones de la mujer en México, 1880-1920

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Denise Hellion Pug

2013-12-01

Full Text Available In Mexico City, cigars advertising was daily reference since the last decade of XIX century. The campaigns of advertising used innovatives strategies to associate consume with modernity, both of mechanization as the aspirations of transformation to approach european models of its time. This advertising also make its part in the development of a female worker imaginary, wich shows the tension between the traditional moral values of constrained woman to domestic activities and dependent of the family nucleus and the patriarchal hierarchy, and the dawn of the female worker with economic independence and hints of individuality in her moral decisions. This paper analyze fragments of these advertising stories related with social values of the city at begin of XX century.

Fiscal 2000 report of investigation. Analysis of IEA/GHG related materials; 2000 nendo IEA/GHG kannren shiryo bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2001-03-01

Documents relating to development of technologies for countermeasures against global warming at IEA (International Energy Agency) were translated and arranged. They are: Industrial uses of biomass energy - the example of Brasil - (Chapter 9, New technologies for modern biomass energy carriers) Arnaldo Walter et al.; Wood for energy production, technology - environment - economy (The Center for Biomass Technology, Denmark, 1999); The geological storage of CO2 in saline aquifers workshop (April 4-5, 2000, Nordwijkerhout, Netherland); Electricity technology roadmap 1999 summary and synthesis (Electric Power Research Institute EPRI, July, 1999); Large scale power generation using forestry and wood industry by-products (Report No.PH3/11, November, 1999); and, The potential of wind energy to reduce CO2 emissions (Report No.PH3/24, October, 2000). (NEDO)

FY 1998 survey report. Petroleum substituting energy metering analysis survey; 1998 nendo chosa hokokusho. Sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1999-03-01

In this survey, metering models in the Asian/Pacific region where energy demand is rapidly increasing were constructed which are used for the comprehensive analysis of the relations between changes in social structure such as economic growth, change in industrial structure, and progress in energy conservation technology and new energy technology, and the energy supply/demand structure. The survey was carried out aiming at contributing to the international development of Japan's energy policy in future by quantitatively analyzing/evaluating influences of various energy policies/economic policies on the economy and energy supply/demand, through various kinds of simulation models. In FY 1998, information collection for modeling was made in China and Korea out of the Asian/Pacific region. At the same time, pilot models were constructed, and simulation was made for the standard case. Moreover, an analysis was conducted of the relation between economic growth and motorization in each country of the world as the basic data preparation on energy consumption in the transportation sector. (NEDO)

FY 1998 survey report. Petroleum substituting energy metering analysis survey; 1998 nendo chosa hokokusho. Sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa

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1999-03-01

In this survey, metering models in the Asian/Pacific region where energy demand is rapidly increasing were constructed which are used for the comprehensive analysis of the relations between changes in social structure such as economic growth, change in industrial structure, and progress in energy conservation technology and new energy technology, and the energy supply/demand structure. The survey was carried out aiming at contributing to the international development of Japan's energy policy in future by quantitatively analyzing/evaluating influences of various energy policies/economic policies on the economy and energy supply/demand, through various kinds of simulation models. In FY 1998, information collection for modeling was made in China and Korea out of the Asian/Pacific region. At the same time, pilot models were constructed, and simulation was made for the standard case. Moreover, an analysis was conducted of the relation between economic growth and motorization in each country of the world as the basic data preparation on energy consumption in the transportation sector. (NEDO)

Technical reliability of geological disposal for high-level radioactive wastes in Japan. The second progress report. Part 1. Geological environment of Japan

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1999-11-01

Based on the Advisory Committee Report on Nuclear Fuel Cycle Backend Policy submitted to the Japanese Government in 1997, JNC documents the progress of research and development program in the form of the second progress report (the first one published in 1992). It summarizes an evaluation of the technical reliability and safety of the geological disposal concept for high-level radioactive wastes (HLW) in Japan. The present document, the part 1 of the progress report, describes first in detail the role of geological environment in high-level radioactive wastes disposal, the features of Japanese geological environment, and programs to proceed the investigation in geological environment. The following chapter summarizes scientific basis for possible existence of stable geological environment, stable for a long period needed for the HLW disposal in Japan including such natural phenomena as volcano and faults. The results of the investigation of the characteristics of bed-rocks and groundwater are presented. These are important for multiple barrier system construction of deep geological disposal. The report furthermore describes the present status of technical and methodological progress in investigating geological environment and finally on the results of natural analog study in Tono uranium deposits area. (Ohno, S.)

Observaciones en el crecimiento de Passiflora Mollissima (H.B.K. Bailey (Curuba como base para un sistema de poda

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Schöniger Gudrun

1971-09-01

Full Text Available 1. El crecimiento libre de P. mollissima da a la planta un hábito de poco valor para el cultivo: la mayor parte de las ramas es improductiva, y la distribución del follaje además favorece la infección por hongos.2. En P. mollissima cultivada en espaldera se observa que el crecimiento es acrótono. Las podas hacen más notable la acrotonía.3. EI transcurso de la cosecha depende del transcurso de la floración y de condiciones climáticas; por eso las cosechas de las ramas laterales de primer y de segundo orden pueden ser separadas o no.4. En descendencias de P. mollissima autopolinizada se presentan segregaciones en cuanto a distintas características, entre ellas también con respecto al habito de crecimiento.5. Con base en las observaciones se desarrolla un sistema de poda de renovación. Esta poda no influye sobre el transcurso de la cosecha, pero rebaja algo el vigor de la planta. Resultados definitivos sobre el valor de la poda sólo se pueden obtener mediante observaciones de varios años.

Enseñanza, Sustentabilidad, Arquitectura

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Claudia Castillo Haeger

2015-12-01

Full Text Available La enseñanza universitaria de la sustentabilidad supone metodologías de gestión adaptativa y sistemas de pensamiento que precisan creatividad, flexibilidad y reflexión crítica. Enseñar arquitectura, urbanismo y paisaje supone, además, una predisposición a la observación, innovación, visualización y resolución teórico-práctica de problemas. A tono con el paradigma del desarrollo sustentable, la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad Diego Portales ha implementado un Plan de sustentabilidad en la enseñanza de la arquitectura, incluyendo en sus talleres contenidos transversales de sustentabilidad ambiental, social y económica. Se aborda este artículo como una investigación en desarrollo, con una sistematización de la sustentabilidad aplicada al taller visualizando oportunidades a través del diseño de herramientas determinantes. Se plantean hallazgos relevantes en la rúbrica de evaluación del examen final del taller y se reflexiona acerca de las perspectivas futuras del Plan y su inclusión en la malla curricular de arquitectura.

Los Secretos de Cien Años de Soledad: Una Aproximación Estilométrica para la Investigación en Psicolingüística

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JORGE IVÁN VÉLEZ

2016-01-01

Full Text Available De acuerdo con la estilística y la crítica literarias, Cien Anos de Soledad de Gabriel García Márquez, se caracteriza por aludir constantemente a los personajes de la historia y narrar los eventos en tono neutro. En este artículo se utilizan métodos estilométricos para ratificar dichas afirmaciones y proveer nuevas visiones sobre la novela. Estos métodos incluyen, entre otros, el conteo de palabras y de frases, la construcción de árboles de consenso, el cálculo de la polaridad de las oraciones, e índices para cuantificar la complejidad y el nivel de concreción del texto. Los resultados indican la tendencia del autor a emplear, frecuentemente, palabras abstractas y referentes a objetos con los que se puede interactuar físicamente, para producir el efecto lingüístico propio del realismo mágico. Dada la importancia de los hallazgos, se plantean algunas ideas acerca de las implicaciones que la metodología puede tener en áreas de la psicolingüística y de la psicología cognitiva.

O COMPORTAMENTO DOS PAIS EM RELAÇÃO À COMUNICAÇÃO COM OS FILHOS ADOLESCENTES SOBRE PREVENÇÃO DE HIV/AIDS

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STELLA MAIA BARBOSA

2008-01-01

Full Text Available Este estudio tuvo como objetivo saber como son las conversaciones entre padres e hijos adolescentes sobre sexo/sexualidad y medidas preventivas del VIH/SIDA. Fueron entrevistados 26 padres de adolescentes matriculados en una escuela pública del municipio de Fortaleza,Ceará, Brasil Los resultados del estudio mostraron que la mayoría de los padres tiene motivación e interés en conversar con los hijos sobre el tema, a pesar de que algunos han relatado dificultades para abordar el asunto con los hijos. Se percibe que en la mayoría de las conversaciones que ocurren en la familia predomina un tono de advertencia y no hay mucho esclarecimiento sobre medidas preventivas acerca del VIH/SIDA o de un embarazo no deseado. Es necesario que los profesionales de salud incorporen estrategias para la adopción de un diálogo informativo con los padres y adolescentes a respecto de las diferentes situaciones ocasionadas por relaciones sexuales desprotegidas, innovando la forma y la calidad de las informaciones, para viabilizar una mayor adhesión de esta población a las prácticas de comportamiento sexual seguro.

La divulgación radiofónica de la alimentación y la higiene infantil en la España de la Segunda República (1933-1935

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Josep Bernabeu Mestre

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El trabajo analiza la incorporación de medios tecnológicos, en particular la radio, en el proceso de divulgación del conocimiento sobre la salud infantil durante la Segunda República española. En el marco de la campaña sanitaria contra la mortalidad infantil que puso en marcha la Segunda República en la década del 30, la Asociación Española de Médicos Puericultores Titulados, en colaboración con Unión Radio, organizó dos ciclos de conferencias radiofónicas que pretendían explicar, a través de un discurso divulgativo de tono descriptivo dirigido a las clases populares, las nociones fundamentales de la higiene y la alimentación infantil, e impulsar una cultura de la prevención, guiada y orientada por los dictados de los expertos. Se trataba de una acción de propaganda y divulgación que tenía su continuidad en el medio familiar y comunitario a través de la actuación de las enfermeras visitadoras puericultoras, contemplando a las madres como población diana.

Estudio del empleo de los pronombres clíticos en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba

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Milagros Aleza

2013-04-01

Full Text Available Esta investigación tiene por objeto un estudio del uso de los pronombres átonos (clíticos en un corpus oral de La Habana (Cuba: El habla culta de la generación joven de La Habana. Materiales para su estudio (tomo 2 de la obra El habla culta de la generación joven de San Juan, La Habana y Santo Domingo. Materiales para su estudio, publicada en 2001. Dado que Cuba es uno de los países considerados distinguidores de caso, resulta especialmente interesante conocer qué verbos y qué estructuras pronominalizan en ambos casos o se inclinan por el uso del dativo en lugar del acusativo, con el fin de analizar las posibles opciones y determinar qué estructuras o tipos de verbo determinan y condicionan la elección del pronombre. Para ello, abordaremos el uso de los clíticos de tercera persona en verbos o construcciones transitivas y de caso reinterpretado, así como otros fenómenos interesantes como la inmovilización del pronombre le y la duplicación del complemento mediante clítico.

De un quehacer histórico y casual a un saber que la historia tiende a hacer difuso

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Teresa Durán

2000-05-01

Full Text Available En este artículo planteamos la necesidad de transformar en materia de análisis y reflexión la relación que, a propósito de la prodrucción de conocimiento de corte antropológico, se establece entre antropólogos e indígenas en contextos regionales y/o nacionales, particularmente en el país y en la región de La Araucanía. Los autores postulan este ámbito de análisis como respuesta por un lado, a la evolución de la antropología y a laética de los antropólogos, y por otro, a la participación cada vez más amplia y globalizada de los representantes del movimiento indígena del mundo. La antítesis de esta postura radicaría en obras de antropólogos que rompen esta relación postulada a través de una práctica individualizada e individualizadora, al parecer a tono con eventuales cambiosparadigmáticos propuestos en el primer mundo y replicados experimentalmente en nuestro medio.

Present status of research and development on underground disposal

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1994-11-01

Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation published the technical report 'Research and development of the formation disposal of high level radioactive waste' 1991 in 1992, summarizing the results of the research and development of the formation disposal which have been advanced by dividing into three parts, that is, the investigation and research of geological environment conditions, the research and development of disposal technologies, and the research on the performance evaluation. Based on the subjects pointed out during the process of making the technical report, the results of evaluation by the state, and the opinions of those concerned, the efforts are exerted toward the second summarization expected in about 2000. By informing the present state of the research and development, in order to accept the criticism and advice, this book was published. The way of thinking and the method of advancing of the research and development of formation disposal, the present state of the research on geological environment conditions, disposal technologies and the performance evaluation are described. Also the present state of the research on stratum science in Tono and Kamaishi mines and others is reported. (K.I.)

Effect of earthquake and faulting on the hydrological environment

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Abe, Hironobu [Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Inst., Toki, Gifu (Japan). Tono Geoscience Center; Sakai, Ryutaro

1999-12-01

The effects of earthquakes and active faults on the geological environment have been studied at the Tono Geoscience Center. The Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake (January 17, 1995; M7.2) in Kobe and Awaji island caused significant changes in hydrology, involving a large amount of groundwater discharge in low-lying land and drastic water-table lowering (during only about 2-4 months) in elevated land near the epicenter. Simulation of the groundwater behavior in the vicinity of the Nojima fault was analysed to evaluate permeability enhancements. Calculated values such as water level changes were matched in a time series with the hydrological observed data in order to optimize this simulation model. Results indicate that the increase of hydraulic conductivity (5 x 10{sup -3} cm/s in weathered granitic rocks) and 1 x 10{sup -5} cm/s in fresh granitic rocks would produce a lowering of the water level at EL 180 m, and increase of discharge at less than EL 100 m, within four months after the earthquake. The study also suggested that the change in the hydraulic conductivity in the Nojima fault could not depend on the change in geological hydrology. (author)

Diseño e implementación de un bloqueador de teléfonos celulares para GSM que operan en la banda B

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Luis Mena

2011-11-01

Full Text Available La telefonía móvil consiste en ofrecer un acceso “Vía radio” a un equipo de telefonía, de tal manera que pueda realizar y recibir llamadas dentro del radio de cobertura del sistema. La diversidad de servicios que en estos momentos se presenta en la telefonía celular, indica que la industria está trabajando en acelerar el desarrollo de tecnologías de comunicaciones móviles. La movilidad y los nuevos servicios de valor agregado, hacen que la telefonía celular sea el segmento de más rápido crecimiento de la industria de las telecomunicaciones. Debido al uso indiscriminado de los teléfonos celulares se ha presentado una situación problemática, en la cual el timbre o uso del celular, llega a ser molesto para las personas, y perjudicial para los equipos computarizados al interferir en su funcionamiento o generar datos erróneos, la presente investigación es orientada a resolver esta problemática al brindar áreas libres de tonos o timbres de celulares.

La Caracterización de los Cumplidos en una Población Universitaria

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Sergio Alonso Lopera Medina

2015-04-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se describe la caracterización de los cumplidos en una población universitaria en Medellín, Colombia. Como técnica de investigación se aplicó un cuestionario de hábitos sociales (DCT: Discourse Completion Test a 740 informantes. Las encuestas fueron analizadas en el programa lingüístico computacional Cratilo, y se tuvo en cuenta variables de género y de relación de los informantes con la universidad (estudiantes, profesores y empleados. Los resultados indican que los participantes prefieren utilizar oraciones exclamativas prototípicas introducidas por interjecciones y la palabra qué e intensifican el objeto del cumplido con el adverbio muy; los estudiantes tienden a utilizar más adjetivos calificativos y un lenguaje más informal que los profesores y empleados; los hombres tienden a proteger su imagen evitando un tono feminizante o el uso del tuteo con otros hombres; en contraste, las mujeres producen cumplidos más extensos y son más expresivas que los hombres. Se concluye que los interactuantes utilizan los cumplidos como una forma de revitalizar la imagen del interlocutor.

Forma y contenido de los códigos de ética de empresas petroleras en Colombia

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Yuri Gorbaneff

2012-09-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: Se exploran los rasgos que caracterizan los códigos de conducta con el ánimo de comprender los parámetros de responsabilidad y desempeño ético que las empresas petroleras colombianas definen para sí mismas. Método: Es un trabajo exploratorio y descriptivo que utiliza el método de estudio de caso múltiple. Se utiliza el modelo de Gaumnitz y Lere (2004 para clasificar los códigos. Resultados: Los códigos se agrupan en tres categorías según su estructura: códigos de empresas globales, los de empresas locales y los códigos intermedios de empresas locales con ambiciones internacionales. Conclusiones: Los códigos de las empresas globales son extensos y legalistas; los de las empresas locales con ambiciones internacionales, menos extensos que los códigos globales pero mantienen su carácter legalista; los de empresas locales pequeñas son cortos y misionales por su tono. Prácticamente todos los códigos tienen sus raíces en la ética utilitaria.

Causas y consecuencias de la deficiencia de hierro

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Olivares Manuel

2004-01-01

Full Text Available La deficiencia de hierro es la deficiencia nutricional más prevalente y la principal causa de anemia a escala mundial. Además de las manifestaciones propias de la anemia, se han descrito otras manifestaciones no hematológicas tales como: disminución de la capacidad de trabajo físico y de la actividad motora espontánea, alteraciones de la inmunidad celular y de la capacidad bactericida de los neutrófilos, disminución de la termogénesis, alteraciones funcionales e histológicas del tubo digestivo, falla en la movilización de la vitamina A hepática, mayor riesgo de parto prematuro, bajo peso de nacimiento y de morbilidad perinatal, menor transferencia de hierro al feto, una disminución de la velocidad de crecimiento, alteraciones conductuales y del desarrollo mental y motor, velocidad de conducción más lenta de los sistemas sensoriales auditivo y visual, y reducción del tono vagal. La prevención de la deficiencia de hierro incluye cambios en los hábitos alimentarios, fortificación de los alimentos y la suplementación con hierro.

Prospectiva, fundamentos y un caso práctico

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Franklin Serrano

1994-05-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN La aparición de la informática y su alto desarrollo alcanzado, ha generado  un movimiento modernizador de las empresas, tendiente especialmente a lograr sobrevivir  y proponerse  a tono con las nuevas   tendencias competitiva. La utilización de las nuevas tecnologías, nuevas formas de planear  y nuevas formas de gerenciar. Estos cambios se imponen como resultados  de las actuales tendencias mundiales del mercado, los nuevos conocimientos y el cambio en la forma de estructurar el pensamiento. El hombre hace tiempo aceptó la teoría de que el mismo forja su propio destino, y es así como ha recurrido constantemente a la utilización y creación de técnicas que facilitan la proyección de un futuro acorde con sus deseos. El presente escrito tiene por objeto, exponer los elementos básicos de los Fundamentos y las técnicas de escenarios para el manejo de la Prospectiva. Como experiencia práctica se presenta un estudio de caso sencillo utilizando Software desarrollado por los autores.

Present status of research and development on underground disposal

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1994-11-01

Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation published the technical report `Research and development of the formation disposal of high level radioactive waste` 1991 in 1992, summarizing the results of the research and development of the formation disposal which have been advanced by dividing into three parts, that is, the investigation and research of geological environment conditions, the research and development of disposal technologies, and the research on the performance evaluation. Based on the subjects pointed out during the process of making the technical report, the results of evaluation by the state, and the opinions of those concerned, the efforts are exerted toward the second summarization expected in about 2000. By informing the present state of the research and development, in order to accept the criticism and advice, this book was published. The way of thinking and the method of advancing of the research and development of formation disposal, the present state of the research on geological environment conditions, disposal technologies and the performance evaluation are described. Also the present state of the research on stratum science in Tono and Kamaishi mines and others is reported. (K.I.).

El signo verbal y no verbal: punto de partida del proceso integrador y totalizador de la enseñanza de la lengua materna

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Raquel Bruzual

2001-09-01

Full Text Available Sustentado en el principio de que el proceso de enseñar y aprender necesita de la integración de todos los elementos que participan en dicho proceso se pretende, a través de este trabajo, dar una explicación sustentada en la semiótica didáctica sobre la necesidad de considerar los gestos, el tono de voz, el contacto y otros signos como parte de ese proceso integrador, totalizador y contextualizado en que debe fundamentarse la enseñanza de la lengua materna. Este trabajo se desarrolla a partir de las observaciones realizadas en las aulas de clases donde mediante la aplicación de un instrumento se pudo observar que el signo no verbal no es tomado en cuenta en el proceso de enseñanza. Se propone en este estudio demostrar que tanto el signo verbal como el signo no verbal deben ser considerados en el salón de clase al momento de enseñar lengua u otra asignatura, puesto que transmiten mensajes explícitos e implícitos que son recibidos por los alumnos e inciden en el aprendizaje

Forma y contenido de los códigos de ética de empresas petroleras en Colombia

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Yuri Gorbaneff

2012-01-01

Full Text Available Objetivos: Se exploran los rasgos que caracterizan los códigos de conducta con el ánimo de comprender los parámetros de responsabilidad y desempeño ético que las empresas petroleras colombianas definen para sí mismas. Método: Es un trabajo exploratorio y descriptivo que utiliza el método de estudio de caso múltiple. Se utiliza el modelo de Gaumnitz y Lere (2004 para clasificar los códigos. Resultados: Los códigos se agrupan en tres categorías según su estructura, códigos de empresas globales, los de empresas locales y los códigos intermedios de empresas locales con ambiciones internacionales. Conclusiones: Los códigos de las empresas globales son extensos y legalistas; los de las empresas locales con ambiciones internacionales, menos extensos que los códigos globales pero mantienen su carácter legalista; los de empresas locales pequeñas son cortos y misionales por su tono. Prácticamente todos los códigos tienen sus raíces en la ética utilitaria.

La familia en el marco de la justicia transicional: retos y reconocimientos

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José Fernando Valencia Grajales

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Dentro del marco del proceso de paz en Colombia existen una gran cantidad de interrogantes que afectan a la sociedad colombiana, sin embargo uno de los elementos que no han sido tenidos en cuenta de forma directa son los efectos producidos durante los últimos 60 años sobre la configuración de la familia, esta situación será estudiada dentro del proyecto de investigación “familia, victimas y justicia transicional”. Este texto intenta una revisión histórica-holística al concepto de Familia, sus cambios al cabo de la historia, por un lado, luego, compara la familia tradicional cristiana, su conflicto con el mundo moderno, su composición dentro de la modernidad para luego planear dicho concepto y concepción de cara al contexto de violencia política, social y armada que ha vivido Colombia, para cerrar con una reflexión en tono al cómo, estas configuraciones, afectan o no, los abordajes y desarrollos de la posible aplicación de la justicia transicional. 

Sobre historia mundial hoy

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Vera Weiler

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Los procesos de globalización son una realidad; su enorme impacto sobre la vida humana los ha convertido en un tema recurrente sobre el que se escribe y se comenta a diario también en Colombia. Los libros que de ellos tratan, ante todo los que 10 hacen en tono crítico, baten records en la industria editorial en todo el mundo. Las expectativas que acerca del futuro abrigan cientos de millones de personas se relacionan con 10 que ellas esperan, para bien o para mal, de la globalización. Las posturas que los gobernantes ocupan al respecto en el mundo son, cuando menos de aceptación, generalmente de activa participación en pos de la globalización. Por un lado, crece la preocupación y se multiplican las protestas; por el otro, dominan los razonamientos de los especialistas en materia de maximización de los rendimientos de los capitales que presentan la globalización, al estilo que se viene imponiendo, como el camino ineludible del gobierno universal de la eficiencia. ¿Tienen que decir algo los historiadores frente a todo esto?.

Quando as lembranças doem: a casa da infância em Vermelho amargo, de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós

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Marcela Verônica da Silva

2016-01-01

Full Text Available La última obra de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós, la novela Vermelho Amargo (2011 es notable por su forma y contenido. La portada de la primera edición hecha por Cosac Naify, de color rojo oscuro y sin la vida que caracteriza a los tonos púrpura, anuncia el contenido doloroso de la narración, que es una mezcla de memorias en prosa poética y de escritura autobiográfica. Las imágenes de la infancia se abren como heridas mal curadas, y el lector tiene la oportunidad de desvelar el poder del verbo poético cuando se enfrenta directamente a estas llagas. En el presente artículo nos proponemos analizar la escritura autobiográfica y la memoria narrativa, con el fin de poner de relieve la imagen de la casa como construcción de la conciencia. Estos temas tienen el apoyo teórico de Gaston Bachelard especialmente en sus reflexiones sobre la poética del espacio relacionada con la primera casa, considerado lugar de formación de las subjetividades del ser.

Contexto e intertextualidad en los títulos de crédito de Watchmen. Context and intertextuality in Watchmen's opening credits

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Raúl Polo Montilla

2012-04-01

Full Text Available Los títulos de crédito de numerosos films se han conformado como algo más que una lista de nombres. Autores como Saul Bass o Kyle Cooper han convertido las secuencias iniciales de los films en microhistorias que avanzan o sintetizan el tono o la atmósfera del film, erigiéndose como el prólogo de la narración. El siguiente artículo analiza en profundidad la secuencia inicial de créditos de Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009, cuya función sintetizadora es vital para entender el contexto de una atípica película de superhéroes.Credits of many films has been formed like something more of a name's list. Authors like Saul Bass or Kyle Cooper have turned film's opening sequences into microhistories that gives us an idea or summarizes the tone and film's atmosphere, becoming a prelude of the story. This article executes a deep analysis of the opening credits of Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009, whose summarizes function is vital to understand the context of an inusual superhero's movie

El discurso político del Cómic sobre el pasado nacional. Tres lecturas del Siglo de Oro.

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Isabelle Touton

2012-07-01

Full Text Available Este artículo se propone mostrar cómo la representación del pasado en el cómic, por medio de opciones estéticas y de recursos específicos a este arte, conlleva como cualquier relectura una dimensión política no siempre explícita. Para ello, nos hemos centrado en la reelaboración de tres “lugares de memoria” del Siglo de Oro (la España y la figura de Felipe II; los tercios de Flandes en tiempos de Felipe IV; Santa Teresa de Jesús en tres obras con objetivos, tonos, modalidades formales y dimensiones plásticas bastante alejados unos de otros: Felipe II (1999 de Antonio Hernández Palacios; El capitán Alatriste (2005, adaptación de la primera novela del ciclo de Pérez-Reverte, con guión Carlos Giménez y dibujos de Joan Mundet, y La vie passionnée de Thérèse d’Avila (1980 de la historietista francesa Claire Brétécher.

Future developments of diversification of electric utilities. Denki jigyo no keiei takakuka no hokosei; Takakuka senshin kigyo ni taisuru jirei bunseki

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Ariu, Toshio; Iguchi, Norio; (Central Research Inst. of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo, Japan)

1989-10-01

Electric utilities positively wrestle now with business diversification such as telecomunication, thermal supplying, urban planning to intensify the administrative foundation under relaxation for regulations. These businesses are yet small scale ones but are supposed to enlarge to the scale equivalent to the main business for a long period. Since the electric industry is a public utility enterprise and has fewer experiences to develop concrete diversifying strategy, this research was proceeded to determine the directions of diversification by analyzing management data or making hearing for well-diversified corporations such as fiber industry, private railway industry, and leasing industry. It was found from this study that diversification would have the possibility of plus for multiple managerial indeces such as profitability, growability and stability and that the diversification would be developed by using effectively the managerial resources. Then, the conditions on which electric utilities must consider when they enter into new businesses were arranged on the basis of this survey. 46 refs., 14 figs., 9 tabs.

Study on the impact assessment for the life cycle assessment (LCA); Kankyo fuka bunseki ni okeru impact assessment ni kansuru chosa

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1997-03-01

This report describes the impact assessment which is an important step for LCA. For classification of the impact assessment, the existing literature was reviewed and a skeleton for the classification was proposed. The weighting factors for nine selected impact categories, which were used to calculate environmental load point (ELP) for the valuation, were obtained for two overseas groups, i.e., students of Amsterdam University and SETAC Europe members. It was found that the former provided the similar trends to general Japanese, however that the latter gave high weighting in the global warming and depletion of ozone layer. The ELP was proposed and applied to automatic washing machine, coffee maker, waste incineration power generation system, and co-generation system. As a result, its effectiveness was demonstrated. This report also describes problems for the LCA of thermal and material recycling of PS trays. 99 refs., 96 figs., 73 tabs.

FY 2000 report on the measuring/analytical survey of petroleum substituting energy; 2000 nendo sekiyu daitai energy keiryo bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2001-03-01

Looking for effective policy on petroleum substituting energy, measuring models were made for analyzing relations between changes in social structure and energy supply/demand structure. Through the simulation using these models, effects of difference in energy policy on economy and energy supply/demand were studied. Countries for survey were Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China and Korea. The measuring model is composed of the macroeconomic model and the energy supply/demand model. In the case of Korea, the interindustry-relations model was added. Using the macroeconomic model, asked were fluctuations in various economic activities/industrial structure/price/trade balance such as GDP and crude steel production by inputting overseas indices, population indices and financial indices such as the world trade, crude oil price and exchange rates. In FY 2000, for ASEAN countries, data were collected for analysis of relations between changes in economical/social structure and energy supply/demand structure. Using the pilot model constructed, the simulation was made on the standard case. (NEDO)

Study of heart rate variability in driving situation by fractal analysis; Fractal kaiseki ni yoru untenchu no shinpaku hendo no bunseki

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Hirata, Y; Nagaoka, M [Mazda Motor Corp., Hiroshima (Japan)

1997-10-01

This paper will explain method of fractal analysis for heart rate variability, as measuring method of mental stress in vehicle driving. In the previous, although there was a measuring method of mental stress by RSA, a issue arise such as reliability of analysis, because driver`s heart rate affect by respiration and muscle motion as well. We have established a method to measure mental stress by fractal dimension. And tried it is the proving ground and public road driving. We have confident that it is more reliable than RSA to quantify driver`s mental stress and fatigue. 9 refs., 9 figs., 1 tab.

Design study of underground facility of the Underground Research Laboratory

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Hibiya, Keisuke; Akiyoshi, Kenji; Ishizuka, Mineo; Anezaki, Susumu

1998-03-01

Geoscientific research program to study deep geological environment has been performed by Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC). This research is supported by 'Long-Term Program for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy'. An Underground Research Laboratory is planned to be constructed at Shoma-sama Hora in the research area belonging to PNC. A wide range of geoscientific research and development activities which have been previously studied at the Tono Area is planned in the laboratory. The Underground Research Laboratory is consisted of Surface Laboratory and Underground Research Facility located from the surface down to depth between several hundreds and 1,000 meters. Based on the results of design study in last year, the design study performed in this year is to investigate the followings in advance of studies for basic design and practical design: concept, design procedure, design flow and total layout. As a study for the concept of the underground facility, items required for the facility are investigated and factors to design the primary form of the underground facility are extracted. Continuously, design methods for the vault and the underground facility are summarized. Furthermore, design procedures of the extracted factors are summarized and total layout is studied considering the results to be obtained from the laboratory. (author)

“ERA COMO UNA DROGA ESCUCHARLO A PERÓN”. RECORDANDO LA MILITANCIA TREINTA AÑOS MÁS TARDE (1955 A 1976

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Pablo Pozzi

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Entrevistar a viejos militantes implica caminar la delgada línea entre memoria y recuerdos. Más aún, para muchos de estos testimoniantes el evocar su activismo pasado implica recordar una serie de hechos que, en general, son una parte integral (y casi siempre heroica de la personalidad y la identidad actual. De hecho, aun cuando el entrevistado se arrepienta de su paso por la militancia, tiende a exaltar su actividad y sus consideraciones en lo que entienden como su momento de “protagonismo histórico”. A partir del los testimonios en el archivo del Programa de Historia Oral de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, esta ponencia intenta una aproximación al análisis de la relación entre memoria, recuerdo y identidad del entrevistados que militaron entre 1955 y 1976. Así, la ponencia se centrará en dos temas interrelacionados. Primero, la narrativa de los entrevistados en cuanto al tono y al lenguaje, considerando en particular la construcción de imágenes determinadas. Y segundo, la memoria y el mito en la construcción de una historia personal como prisma para ver una historia sociopolítica.

El tiempo y los tiempos en la obra de Santa Teresa de Jesús: un acercamiento narratológico

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Tomaž Šmid

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Aunque el estilo de los textos teresianos está marcado por el tono de la conversación oral esto no excluye su preocupación por la forma. El lenguaje se orienta en la narración hacia procesos que tienen su fundamento en la temporalidad. El tiempo se convierte así en una de las dimensiones fundamentales de cualquier narración. En el artículo nos interesa el tiempo en su doble dimensión: como componente de la historia y su manifestación al nivel del discurso. Analizamos primero lo que atañe al acto de narrar la historia en la obra de Santa Teresa (si en su mayoría es ulterior, anterior, simultáneo o intercalado y después las relaciones y las discordancias que se producen en su obra entre el tiempo del relato y el tiempo de la historia, utilizando para ello tres parámetros: el orden, la duración y la frecuencia (Genette, 1972. Contrastando el tiempo de la historia y el tiempo del discurso en la obra de Santa Teresa constatamos la agilidad de su estilo literario y su capacidad para organizar una sintaxis narrativa.

Latent inhibition as a function of US intensity in a two-stage CER procedure

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Gumersinda Alonso

2004-01-01

Full Text Available En el experimento que presentamos se examinó el efecto de la intensidad del estímulo incondicionado (EI sobre la inhibición latente (IL, empleando un procedimiento de respuesta emocional condicionada (REC de dos fases, con ratas como sujetos experimentales. Se utilizó un tono como estímulo preexpuesto y estímulo condicionado (EC, y una descarga, de intensidad baja (0.3 mA o alta (0.7 mA, como EI. Se empleó un diseño factorial 2 x 2. El primer factor fue la condición de preexposición (72 preexposiciones o sin preexposición y el segundo factor fue la intensidad de la descarga (baja o alta. Se observó un efecto de IL más duradero en la condición de intensidad baja que en la condición de intensidad alta. Se discute la posibilidad de que la intensidad del EI module o bien un proceso de restauración de la atención al EC durante el condicionamiento o bien un cambio contextual, responsable de la atenuación del efecto de IL en la condición de intensidad alta, respecto a la condición de intensidad baja.

Hydrogeological characterization on surface-based investigation phase in the Mizunami underground research laboratory project, in Japan

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Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Onoe, Hironori; Takeuchi, Shinji; Takeuchi, Ryuji; Ohyama, Takuya

2007-01-01

The Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project is being carried out by Japan Atomic Energy Agency in the Cretaceous Toki granite in the Tono area, central Japan. The MIU project is a purpose-built generic underground research laboratory project that is planned for a broad scientific study of the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of nuclear wastes. One of the main goals of the MIU project is to establish comprehensive techniques for investigation, analysis, and assessment of the deep geological environment. The MIU project has three overlapping phases: Surface-based Investigation (Phase I), Construction (Phase II) and Operation (Phase III). Hydrogeological investigations using a stepwise process in Phase I have been carried out in order to obtain information on important properties such as, location of water conducting features, hydraulic conductivity and so on. Hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow simulations in Phase I have been carried out in order to synthesize these investigation results, to evaluate the uncertainty of the hydrogeological model and to identify the main issues for further investigations. Using the stepwise hydrogeological characterization approach and combining the investigation with modeling and simulation, understanding of the hydrogeological environment has been progressively improved. (authors)

Modalities of Tonometry and their Accuracy with Respect to Corneal Thickness and Irregularities

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De Moraes, Carlos Gustavo V.; Prata, Tiago S.; Liebmann, Jeffrey; Ritch, Robert

2010-01-01

Recent advances in tonometry have led to the development of a number of devices with differing clinical applications. Their role in cases of abnormal corneal thickness and surface irregularities is particularly important, as inaccurate estimation of the true intraocular pressure (IOP) in such cases may lead to suboptimal evaluation. The purpose of the present review was to evaluate the accuracy of the most widely used devices in cases of corneal thickness and surface irregularities, based on a survey of the published literature. The analysis was based on a Medline search focusing mainly on papers that have evaluated the devices’ accuracy with respect to corneal thickness and irregularities. Nine device types (Goldmann tonometer, Tono-Pen, Perkins tonometer, Ocular Response Analyzer, non-contact tonometer, pneumatonometer, I-Care rebound tonometer, Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (DCT) and Phosphene tonometer) were described in detail. Moreover, the physical principles and major utility of each tonometer were compared. Each of the many different commercially available tonometers has specific advantages and disadvantages. New non-invasive technologies are getting closer to a precise estimation of the true IOP. However, among all tonometers, none is highly accurate when both corneal thickness and surface irregularities are present. Fifty years after its development, Goldmann tonometry remains the gold standard to which all other devices are compared.

Industrias Bachoco: estrategias de localización y competitividad ante el nuevo escenario avícola

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María del Carmen Hernández Moreno

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Los cambios sustantivos en el sistema agroalimentario mexicano han impulsado a las empresas a aplicar estrategias que les permitan funcionar en un contexto cada vez más competitivo, complejo e incierto. En el ramo avícola, Industrias Bachoco ha logrado posicionarse como líder nacional, a pesar de las presiones de la apertura comercial y de la competencia interna de dos de los mayores consorcios avícolas transnacionales. El presente artículo destaca los resultados obtenidos por esta empresa a partir de su estrategia de desplazamiento por la república mexicana. Desde la perspectiva de la teoría de la localización y de la nueva geografía económica, se plantea la hipótesis de que tal estrategia le ha permitido a Bachoco sumar ventajas comparativas regionales y le ha conferido la capacidad de suministrar una oferta adaptada a las costumbres y tradiciones de cada mercado regional, que no ha sido igualada por ninguna de sus competidoras. Se concluye que la apertura total inminente del mercado avícola mexicano inducirá al consorcio a acelerar su actualización, para estar a tono y competir con las empresas internacionales.

O que é o cibersexo? Uma arqueologia em três tempos

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William Araujo Rezende

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo analiza el objeto cibersexo partindo del contexto discursivo que involucró el concepto. Para este propósito, partimos del cuestionamiento de su especificidad mediante el análisis de las definiciones actuales en el ámbito científico. Después, trazamos la arqueología de su aparición en el campo del conocimiento, basado en un levantamiento del discurso transmitido por los medios de comunicación y revistas científicas, en tres momentos diferentes. En un primer momento, se analiza su emergencia como un problema de identidad que luego toma un tono peligroso marcado por el discurso de los medios de comunicación. Entonces vemos cómo el cibersexo comienza a ser conjurado por la dimensión jurídica a través de la sospecha permanente de crimen potencial. Finalmente, se investiga su inclusión en el ámbito de la Psicología, principalmente a través de discursos de patologización. Llegamos a la conclusión de que el concepto de cibersexo no se limita a este marco epistemológico que no contempla las experiencias únicas que revelan su dimensión molecular.

Uranium resources, 1983

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1983-01-01

The specific character of uranium as energy resources, the history of development of uranium resources, the production and reserve of uranium in the world, the prospect regarding the demand and supply of uranium, Japanese activity of exploring uranium resources in foreign countries and the state of development of uranium resources in various countries are reported. The formation of uranium deposits, the classification of uranium deposits and the reserve quantity of each type are described. As the geological environment of uranium deposits, there are six types, that is, quartz medium gravel conglomerate deposit, the deposit related to the unconformity in Proterozoic era, the dissemination type magma deposit, pegmatite deposit and contact deposit in igneaus rocks and metamorphic rocks, vein deposit, sandstone type deposit and the other types of deposit. The main features of respective types are explained. The most important uranium resources in Japan are those in the Tertiary formations, and most of the found reserve belongs to this type. The geological features, the state of yield and the scale of the deposits in Ningyotoge, Tono and Kanmon Mesozoic formation are reported. Uranium minerals, the promising districts in the world, and the matters related to the exploration and mining of uranium are described. (Kako, I.)

Groundwater flow simulation on local scale. Setting boundary conditions of groundwater flow simulation on site scale model in the step 4

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Onoe, Hironori; Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Ohyama, Takuya

2007-03-01

Japan Atomic Energy Agency has been conducting a wide range of geoscientific research in order to build a foundation for multidisciplinary studies of the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of nuclear wastes. Ongoing geoscientific research programs include the Regional Hydrogeological Study (RHS) project and Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project in the Tono region, Gifu Prefecture. The main goal of these projects is to establish comprehensive techniques for investigation, analysis, and assessment of the deep geological at several spatial scales. The RHS project is a Local scale study for understanding the groundwater flow system from the recharge area to the discharge area. The Surface-based Investigation Phase of the MIU project is a Site scale study for understanding the deep geological environment immediately surrounding the MIU construction site using a multiphase, iterative approach. In this study, the hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow simulation on Local scale were carried out in order to set boundary conditions of the Site scale model based on the data obtained from surface-based investigations in the Step4 in Site scale of the MIU project. As a result of the study, boundary conditions for groundwater flow simulation on the Site scale model of the Step4 could be obtained. (author)

Mesura y desmesura en epigramas de la Antología Palatina

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Adriana Claudia Poquet

2013-10-01

Full Text Available En diálogo con las fuentes griegas de la Antología Palatina de la colección de Cambridge se analiza el tema cultural de mesura-desmesura en el género epi- gramático cuyo valor testimonial de quince o dieciséis siglos de literatura griega sorprende. Se trata de un cuerpo de poesías de variada inspiración y de autores datados entre el VII a.C. y el VII d. C., conocidos y anónimos y en mayoría pagana. Llama la atención el campo casi inexplorado de un género que refleja el modo de pensar y sentir griego así como la falta de una traducción castellana que acerque la lectura de estas pequeñas obras de arte, más o menos ignotas, a un público lector más amplio. Entre la variedad de epigramas, se pretende seleccionar y analizar un corpus de poemas protrépticos que en tono dialógico aconsejaban, amonestaban a conquistar la excelencia, el orden y la reflexión en el comportamiento y costumbres humanas, válidas para el hombre de todas las épocas.

Complicaciones del tratamiento con anticoagulantes orales en mayores de 65 años, a propósito de un caso

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María de las Nieves Perejón Díaz

2014-08-01

Full Text Available Descripción del caso: Mujer de 79 años con antecedentes de hipertensión arterial, fibrilación auricular (FA permanente anticoagulada (acenocumarol e insuficiencia mitral. Barthel 90, Lowton-Brody: 2. Acude a urgencias por dolor costal (osteomuscular de dos semanas de evolución, sin otros síntomas, siendo dada de alta y acudiendo nuevamente por epistaxis y disnea. Exploración y pruebas complementarias: destacar en la auscultación cardio-pulmonar: tonos arrítmicos con soplo sistólico en reborde esternal izquierdo, crepitantes hasta campos medios, con murmullo vesicular disminuido. Radiografía de tórax: masa hiliar derecha con engrosamiento pleural derecho, e infiltrado bilateral. Hemograma: hemoglobina 7.9 g/dl (previa 11.6 g/dl, leucocitos 11.57x10l. Bioquímica: PCR 72.90mg/l, urea 85 mg/l. Coagulación: INR indeterminado, actividad protrombina 4 aumenta el riesgo de sangrado. Se trata de un paciente pluripatológico, dependiente moderada, con mal cumplimiento tratamiento y de control de anticoagulación. Ante estos datos (anemización, ausencia de signos de infección o insuficiencia cardiaca, y los resultados de las pruebas, nos decantamos por la hemorragia alveolar como primera posibilidad diagnostica.

Summary reports of doctoral research fellows in 1999

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2000-07-01

JNC (Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute) has been promoting the fellowship program for young scientists to encourage their expertise from 1997. The objective of this program is to raise the talented persons for future JNC activities. This report summarized the status on the 17 themes of researches implemented by young research fellows in 1999. The report includes the list of individual titles and the site and supporting staffs of JNC. The individual reports given by 17 authors describe its time schedule, status, achievements and own publications in the prearranged format. Topics include the followings; Those are giant resonance structures of short lifetime nuclei, growth of cavities in structural materials, calculation methods of photonuclear interaction cross-section, stability and radioactivity diffusion of bentonite, plant ecology of radioactivity in uranium mines, numerical simulations on the TRUEX process, advanced nondestructive testing of materials, physical properties of actinides obtained by band theory, de-oxidisation capability in pyrite to decrease oxygen in bentonite, investigation on equilibrium fast reactor recycling, behaviors of underground water in the Tono Mine, effects of radiation induced educts on swelling, simulation on fuel-coolant interaction after severe accidents, and resonance ionization mass spectrometry for the JOYO reactor to detect failed fuel locations. (Tanaka, Y.)

Por que, Para que uma revista (tradução

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Doralicia Furtado da Rosa

2007-06-01

Full Text Available Tempo. Poder-se-ia vê-la assim: mais que um desafio ao tempo, a revista é um desafío no tempo. A literatura seria essa possibilidade de desafiar o tempo em um lapso maior que o da proximidade, que o do próximo do presente. A revista, pelo contrário, trabalha para o presente, para a difusão do conto ou do poema ou do artigo ou do capítulo de romance. Logo, com sorte, esses textos estarão destinados a circular em livro ou então a ficarem pendentes no espaço cibernético até que alguém os recolha, até que alguém os “baixe” da internet. Ou se perderão para sempre ou se transformarão em referência de nota de rodapé em alguma tese de doutorado, para regozijo de eruditos ou como monótono insumo para a obtenção de um grau ou de um cargo universitário. Isso significa, como cria Borges, que “um periódico se lê para o olvido”, ao passo que “um livro se lê para a memória”? (BORGES, 1979, p.25.

Data acquisition of mass transport parameters

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Iwasaki, Riyo; Hama, Katsuhiro; Morikawa, Keita; Hosoya, Shinichi

2017-02-01

Tono Geoscience Center of Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been carrying out the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) Project, which is a scientific study understanding the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of high level radioactive wastes. The aim of the MIU project is to establish comprehensive techniques for the investigation, analysis and assessment of the deep geological environment in fractured crystalline rock, and to develop a range of engineering techniques for deep underground application. This project has three overlapping phases: Surface-based investigation phase (Phase I), Construction phase (Phase II), and Operation phase (Phase III). Currently, the project is being carried out under the Phase III. Mass transport study is mainly performed as part of Phase III project. In Phase III, the goal of mass transport study is to obtain a better understanding of mass transport phenomena in the geological environment as well as to develop technologies for measurement of the mass transport parameters, model construction, numerical analysis and validation of those technologies. This study was planned to understand the influence of the geological characteristics of fracture on the mass transport parameters. This report presents the results of diffusion experiment, observation of polished thin section, sorption experiment and porophysicality measurement. (author)

Hydrological characteristics of Japanese rock

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Ijiri, Yuji; Sawada, Atsushi; Akahori, Kuniaki

1999-11-01

It is crucial to evaluate the hydrogeological characteristics of rock in Japan in order to assess the performance of geosphere. This report summarizes the hydrogeological characteristics of various rock types obtained from broad literature surveys and the fields experiments at the Kamaishi mine in northern Japan and at the Tono mine in central Japan. It is found that the hydraulic conductivity of rock mass ranges from 10 -9 m/s to 10 -8 m/s, whereas the hydraulic conductivity of fault zone ranges from 10 -9 m/s to 10 -3 m/s. It is also found that the hydraulic conductivity tends to decrease with depth. Therefore, the hydraulic conductivity of rock mass at the depth of a repository will be smaller than above values. From the investigations at outcrops and galleries throughout the country, fractures are observed as potential pathways in all rock types. All kinds of crystalline rocks and pre-Neogene sedimentary rocks are classified as fractured media where fracture flow is dominant. Among these rocks, granitic rock is considered the archetype fractured media. On the other hand, andesite, tuff and Neogene sedimentary rocks are considered as intermediate between fractured media and porous media where flow in fractures as well as in rock matrix are significant. (author)

Factores determinantes de la creación de las Spin Off académicas: caso del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

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Mauricio Monge

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar los factores determinantes en la creación de Spin off académicas en el Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (ITCR, universidad pública de Costa Rica, utilizando la metodología propuesta por O'Shea et al., (2008: atributos del emprendedor, recursos organizativos, determinantes institucionales y ambientales. Los resultados relevan que en el ITCR la principal fortaleza es su misión, cultura e historia, caracterizada por el servicio brindado al sector productivo; no obstante, requiere fortalecer aspectos como la calidad de la investigación y consecución de fondos externos para esta, así como aspectos externos de índole legal que brinden las condiciones apropiadas para la creación de spin off académicas, y la generación de capital de riesgo. Todo ello, a tono con el paradigma de la universidad emprendedora. Este artículo contribuye a explicar el proceso de creación de Spin off en una universidad pública latinoamericana y es de utilidad tanto para el ámbito académico, como público y privado encargado de impulsar un mayor acercamiento entre la Universidad y la Sociedad

Pluralismo informativo y medios públicos. La involución de TVE en el contexto del cambio político (2012-2013

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ML Humanes

2015-04-01

Full Text Available Introducción: Se describe y analizan las políticas adoptadas en España con respecto al modelo de gobierno de TVE tras ganar el Partido Popular las elecciones de 2011. Se abordan las reformas y sus implicaciones para los Servicios Informativos de Televisión Española, así como las consecuencias en la información y el nivel de pluralismo. Metodología: Se ha realizado un análisis de contenido sobre dos muestras de tres semanas del primer trimestre delos años 2012 y 2013 (1294 unidades de análisis. Resultados y conclusiones: La regubernamentalización de los órganos de gestión de RTVE ha incrementado la banalización de los contenidos de la televisión pública, en detrimento de los grandes temas de actualidad. Se advierte una reducción de los puntos de vista y del número de fuentes en la información laboral. Asimismo, esta regubernamentalización se acompaña de un predominio del periodismo interpretativo sobre el descriptivo, con un incremento del tono positivo en las informaciones de carácter económico.

Condicionamientos internos en la variación de los pronombres personales átonos en Los hechos de Don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo

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Francisco Díaz Montesinos

2004-06-01

Full Text Available The aim of this paper is to analyse the linguistic factors constraining the use of personal clitics lo(s, la(s, le(s in XVth Century Middle-Age Castilian, as revealed in the Relación de los Hechos de Don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo (1458. A multivariate analysis of data from this text shows that internal (morphological, syntactic, lexical and textual factors interact and allows us to imagine the simplest and original context where leísmo could start. A nearly categorical tendency to employ le for male referents as direct objects is developed with human antecedents and where Latin used dative case or alternated between dative and accusative case. If Latin used accusative case, occurrence of le (leísmo depends on a set of linguistic constraints whose effect is systematic and predictable, as shows a logistic regression analysis carried out in this paper. Use of le (leísmo for human antecedents is constrained by the following internal factors: etymology, the number and the clitic's position within the sentence, type of syntactic structure and the verb's tense.

Studies on connecting structure between steel shell and steel reinforced concrete; Kokaku to tekkotsu tekkin concrete tono ketsugo kozo ni kansuru kenkyu

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Morimoto, A. [Kinki University, Osaka (Japan). Faculty of Science and Engineering; Morikawa, H.; Ito, N. [Metropolitan Expressway Public Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

1996-02-15

On the insert reinforcing bar structure for the connecting part of the main tower of cable stayed bridges, this paper reports verification results on a load resistant safety with a full-scale model, structure analysis and construction work. The basic structure was composed of a drilled steel shell, inserted reinforcing bars, fixing structure of bars in lining concrete of the shell and a pressure bearing plate. As an experimental result, the connecting part had a sufficient load carrying capacity against both tensile and compressive loads. The shear stress of the insert reinforcing bar structure was estimated successfully under von Mises`s condition. The shear spring constant in deformation characteristics was linearly proportional to an inserted reinforcing bar ratio. In earthquake, nearly 60% of an allowable compressive load was transferred to concrete through the pressure bearing plate. The analytical results of load resistant deformation characteristics of the connecting part well agreed with experimental ones, and the proposed analytical model was applicable to estimation of a dynamic behavior. 5 refs., 22 figs., 4 tabs.

International joint research of reforestation techniques for tropical rain forests in Indonesia; Indonesia tono nettairin saisei gijutsu no kyodo kenkyu ni tsuite

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Watanabe, T. [Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc., Osaka (Japan)

1998-10-30

The purposes of this research are to establish large-scale reforestation techniques, and to transfer these techniques into Indonesia for contributing to the preservation of tropical rain forests and the protection of global warming. Lauan trees provide disease and drying resistance properties by inoculating their roots with mycorrhizal fungi, to promote their growth. This is due to the symbiotic relationship between them, in which mycelia of mycorrhizal fungi collect and bring water and nutritive substances in the soil to the roots of lauan trees and intake sugars from the roots as nutrition. Since lauan trees are local variety, they are suitable for the preservation of biosystem. Since their growth life is long, they are suitable for the fixation of CO2. However, the reforestation techniques have not yet been established. Between FY 1992 and 1997, a high survival rate about 60% was obtained through a method in which natural seedlings in mountains were implanted and a method in which seeds were planted in the nursery. About 34000 lauan trees have been planted for the reforestation tests. An inoculation method was established for the accelerated growth of seedlings with mycorrhizal fungi. Through the inoculation, the growth rate was increased up to three times of that without inoculation. The lauan trees grew up to 5 m, and the survival rate was also increased up to twice. 11 figs., 3 tabs.

Efluxo de CO2 do solo em floresta de transição Amazônia Cerrado e em área de pastagem Soil efflux CO2 in mature transitional tropical forest Amazônia and pasture area

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Osvaldo Borges Pinto-Junior

2009-01-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi (a estimar o efluxo de CO2 do solo em uma Floresta de Transição Amazônica Cerrado e em uma área de Pastagem localizadas no norte do Mato Grosso, e (b verificar a influência da umidade e temperatura do solo, e serrapilheira acumulada no efluxo de CO2. As medições foram realizadas com aparelho de absorção de CO2 por infravermelho (EGM/WMA-2 PP System, Hitchin Hertz, UK de maio/2005 a abril/2006. Os valores médios do efluxo de CO2 do solo na Floresta e na área de Pastagem foram de 5,45 e 4,95 µmolm-2s-1, respectivamente. Uma resposta satisfatória do efluxo de CO2 do solo e a serrapilheira acumulada, ocorreu somente na estação seca. Na estação seca o comportamento do efluxo de CO2 do solo foi semelhante na Floresta de Transição Amazônica Cerrado e na área de Pastagem, e na estação úmida os ecossistemas apresentaram comportamentos distintos, e o efluxo de CO2 do solo na área de Pastagem foi superior ao na Floresta de Transição. É essencial que se avalie a influência de outros fatores no efluxo de CO2 em ecossistemas localizados em um mesmo ecótono para a obtenção de novas respostas que contribuíam para esclarecer as dúvidas da emissão de CO2 em nível mundial.The objective of this paper was (a to estimate the CO2 soil efflux in a Mature Transitional Tropical Forest Amazonia and a area of Pasture in the north of the Mato Grosso; (b to analyzer the influence of the soil humidity and temperature, and accumulated litter. The measurements had been carried through with device of CO2 absorption for infra-red ray (EGM/WMA-2 PP System, Hitchin Hertz, UK in may/2005 to april/2006. The average values of the CO2 efflux of the ground in the Forest and the area of 5,45 and 4,94 µmolm-2s-1 Pasture µmolm-2s-1, respectively. In the dry season the behavior of the CO2 efflux of the ground was similar in the Mature Transitional Tropical Forest Amazonian and in the area of Pasture, and in the wet season

Empirical analysis of consumer decision making processes on setting up residential photovoltaic systems; Jutakuyo taiyoko hatsuden system no donyu ni kansuru ishiki bunseki

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Iuchi, M; Okawara, T; Tsuchiya, T [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan); Konakayama, A [Tokai Univ., Tokyo (Japan)

1996-10-01

Inquiries are made to consumers (monitors) who own a photovoltaic power generation system at their houses, and their replies are analyzed for isolating the factors involving the purchase of this domestic power generating system. A large part of the monitors are 40-50 years old males in the relatively high income bracket. They are very interested in problems of global environments, resources, and energy, and are inclined to assume value-consciousness and life-style which encourage them to love health and nature, participation in social functions, and decision-making. The need for the protection of global environments occupies more than 90% of the reasons for their adoption of photovoltaic power generation. The monitors strongly feel, however, that they paid very much for the apparatus although they were granted some subsidies. As for motives for their acquisition of the system, their answers are categorized into four groups according to their responses as to whether (or not) they expect economic merits though dependent on future development and whether (or not) they accept the current energy policies. The result shows that some monitors think like average citizens. 17 refs., 22 figs., 11 tabs.

Estimation for origin of coals on biomaker analysis; Jinko sekitan oyobi tennen sekitan no biomaker bunseki ni yoru sekitan kigen busshitsu no suitei

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Suzuki, Y. [Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba (Japan); Sugimoto, Y. [National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Tsukuba (Japan); Okada, K. [Coal Mining Research Center, Tokyo (Japan)

1996-10-28

In order to study coal production processes, an estimation study was carried out on coal originating materials by using biomaker analysis. Test samples are original coals collected directly from a mine in Hokkaido (not having been subjected cleaning). Mixing and solvent extraction were performed after pulverization, and then tests were given on saturated hydrocarbon components divided by using a silicagel column chromatograph for the present study. It can be known from n-alkane distribution in the coal that low molecular alkane increases with increasing degree of coalification. Artificial coal made by wet-heating Metasequoia leaves contains only little n-alkane. Diterpenoid compound exists in the Taiheiyo and Akabira coals. Tetra-cyclic diterpernoid is contained abundantly in subtropical coniferous trees, serving as a parameter for warm environment. The compound is contained also in the Fushun coal, but not in Indonesian coals. Hopanoid constitution shows very high similarity, but H/C atomic ratio may vary largely even if the coalification is at the same degree. This is likely to be caused from difference in originating materials. Hopanoids are bacteria attributed substances, whose activities are not affected by the originating materials. 2 figs., 1 tab.

FY 2000 report on the analytical survey of the basic data by area; 2000 nendo chosa hokoku. Chiiki betsu kiso data bunseki chosa

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2001-03-01

From a viewpoint of the spread of energy conservation technology, etc. that Japan owns, following the previous fiscal year, data collection/study were made of 51 countries and 1 area including 49 countries (17 Asian developing countries, 13 Middle East countries and 19 countries in East Europe/Former U.S.S.R.) and 2 countries (Japan/the U.S.) and 1 area (the EU) that were added for comparison with developed countries. Items for study were the general situation, economic/trade indicators, administration/general situation, energy situation, economic/technical cooperation from Japan, implementing situation of NEDO's model project, AIJ implementing situation in each country, etc. To keep the continuity, data were numerically obtained from the same data source as that used in the previous fiscal year as a rule. The input data were made as consistent in each item as possible, and the same table was obtained from a single data source as a rule. The data in the previous fiscal year were reviewed, and the data were adopted from which data on as many countries as possible could be acquired through the same data source. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1999 survey report. Data collection, analysis, and investigation for energy efficiency improvement; 1999 nendo energy shohi koritsuka joho shushu bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2000-03-01

With economy growing at a fast pace in the Asia-Pacific region in recent years, demand for energy is sharply increasing in various industries, and the demand is expected to continue to grow. It is afraid that the trend may extend to other developing regions such as East Europe. It is, and will remain to be, important to prevent warming, assure sustained economic development, and secure stable supply of energy on the global scale. The survey in this report aims to grasp the trends of energy efficiency improvement in Asia-Pacific nations, in other developing nations, and in developed nations as well, to ultimately serve the best interests of Japan. For the achievement of the goal, Japan's attitude toward energy conservation promotion activities is expressed at international conferences on energy conservation promotion such as those of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference) in the Asia-Pacific region and of environmental/energy-saving conferences of IEA (International Energy Agency) in Europe and America. On these occasions, information is collected and overseas technical literature is obtained thanks to the established coordination with United Nations-affiliated organizations and key persons in various countries. Data and information thus acquired are utilized for the investigation and analysis of energy conservation technologies and policies adopted and diffused in the respective nations involved. Using them, promotion of energy conservation policies in the Asia-Pacific region and establishment of environmental friendliness are also investigated. (NEDO)

Concurrent multidisciplinary mechanical design based on design task analysis and knowledge sharing; Sekkei task bunseki to joho kyoyu ni yoru mechatronics kyocho sekkei

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Kondo, K.; Ozawa, M.; Mori, T. [Toshiba Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

1999-09-01

We have developed a systematic design task planning method based on a design structure matrix(DSM) and a lumped model- based framework for knowledge sharing in a concurrent design environment as key techniques for developing higher quality products in a shorter design time. The DSM facilitates systematic analysis of dependencies among design tasks and optimization of the design process. The framework based on a lumped model description of mechanical systems enables concurrent and cooperative work among multidisciplinary designers at an early stage of the design process. In this paper, we also discuss the relationships between these techniques and the product development flow from product definition to detailed design. (author)

FY 2000 report on the analytical survey of the basic data by area; 2000 nendo chosa hokoku. Chiiki betsu kiso data bunseki chosa

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2001-03-01

From a viewpoint of the spread of energy conservation technology, etc. that Japan owns, following the previous fiscal year, data collection/study were made of 51 countries and 1 area including 49 countries (17 Asian developing countries, 13 Middle East countries and 19 countries in East Europe/Former U.S.S.R.) and 2 countries (Japan/the U.S.) and 1 area (the EU) that were added for comparison with developed countries. Items for study were the general situation, economic/trade indicators, administration/general situation, energy situation, economic/technical cooperation from Japan, implementing situation of NEDO's model project, AIJ implementing situation in each country, etc. To keep the continuity, data were numerically obtained from the same data source as that used in the previous fiscal year as a rule. The input data were made as consistent in each item as possible, and the same table was obtained from a single data source as a rule. The data in the previous fiscal year were reviewed, and the data were adopted from which data on as many countries as possible could be acquired through the same data source. (NEDO)

Analysis of taste qualities and ingredients of beer by taste sensing system; Mikaku sensor ni yoru beer no ajishitsu to seibun no bunseki

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Ezaki, S.; Yuki, T. [Kinki University, Osaka (Japan); Toko, K. [Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan); Tsuda, Y.; Nakatani, K. [Suntory Ltd., Osaka (Japan)

1997-08-20

The taste of beer was measured using a taste sensing system with eight kinds of lipid membrane. The output from the sensor has high discriminating power and high correlation with taste substances in beer and sensory test by human. The estimation of the concentration of taste substances by multiple regression analysis was fairly well. The taste sensor also well estimated the result of sensory test of many keywords concerning beer taste. 16 refs., 8 figs., 1 tab.

Trabajo en el medio acuático en el proceso de enseñanza del niño autista

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Pedro Ángel Baena Beato

2010-09-01

Full Text Available La intención del presente documento es hacer una reflexión sobre las necesidades educativas del niño autista y las posibilidades de trabajo en el medio acuático. La interacción social limitada se presenta como uno de los rasgos fundamentales de autismo, de manera que se relacionan anormalmente con las personas y situaciones. Es aconsejable para esta población, incrementar la actividad física extracurricular, de esta forma, las actividades acuáticas son beneficiosas, incrementando la coordinación motora, el equilibrio, la atención, la disciplina y estimulan a los sujetos para que acaten instrucciones y cumpla normas establecidas. Ejercita a nivel general el sistema neuromuscular y además es divertida. La utilización adecuada de las características intrínsecas al medio acuático y el trabajo, correctamente orientado, de contenidos fundamentales en el desarrollo de la actividad acuática, adaptada a personas con discapacidad motriz: respiración, elasticidad muscular, movilidad articular, tono muscular, equilibrio, flotación, desplazamiento y relajación, van a favorecer en gran medida la consecución de progresos en todos los ámbitos del practicante autista, físicos, psíquicos, sociales y de relación.

¿Qué es una institución?

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John R. Searle

2006-09-01

Full Text Available Cuando era un estudiante universitario en Oxford, nos enseñaban economía como si fuera una ciencia natural. La materia objeto de la economía podría ser diferente de la física, pero sólo en la medida en la que el contenido de la química o la biología son diferentes de la física. Los resultados propiamente dichos nos fueron presentados como si fuesen teorías científicas. Por ello cuando aprendimos que los ahorros equivalen a la inversión, se nos enseñaba en el mismo tono de voz en el que uno aprende que la fuerza es igual a la masa por la aceleración. Y aprendimos que los empresarios juiciosos venden cuando el coste marginal iguala al beneficio marginal de la misma manera en la que una vez aprendimos que los cuerpos se atraen con una fuerza directamente proporcional al producto de sus masas e inversamente proporcional al cuadrado de la distancia que los separa. En ningún momento se planteó que la realidad descrita por la teoría económica fuera dependiente de las creencias y otras actitudes humanas de una manera que era completamente distinta de la realidad descrita por la física o la química.

Core message from PNC/H-3 and key issues for the next milestone

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Masuda, Sumio; Ishiguro, Katsuhiko; Yui, Mikazu; Mano, Tadashi

1994-01-01

The PNC/H-3 is the first progress report on the research and development of HLW geological disposal in Japan. This paper describes on overview of the performance assessment studies in the H-3 report and critical issues identified through the studies. Subsequently, the outline of the PNC's study plan for the post H-3 stage is introduced. The generic performance assessment studies in the H-3 report indicated that the performance of a massive engineered barrier system could be sufficient within a range of likely geological conditions in Japan. Sensitivity studies of the performance of the natural barrier system coupled with the strong engineered barrier indicated the importance of the investigation of geological barrier effects in the near-field. Studies in the H-3 indicated that the research approach which placed an emphasis on the near-field analyses was promising to confirm the technical feasibility of the HLW geologic disposal concept in Japan. In order to make the approach more promising and effective it is important to promote more detailed and comprehensive analyses of the near-field processes. The PNC's research and development of post H-3 stage before the year 2000 is focused on the detailed analyses of the near-field. A set of engineering scale laboratory experiments and in situ experiments at Tono and Kamaishi mines will play an important role for the post H-3 studies

Estimated method of permeability in the granitic rocks by geophysical loggings; Butsuri kenso shuho ni yoru kakoganchu no tosuisei ni kansuru ichikosatsu

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Matsuoka, K; Hashimoto, N. [Geophysical Surveying and Consulting Co. Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)]Ogata, N. [Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

1997-10-22

Water permeability in granite is estimated by performing geophysical investigation using a 500m-deep test hole drilled in granitic rocks in the vicinity of a Tono mine. The investigation consists of flowmeter logging and geophysical logging. In flowmeter logging, a probe is moved up and down in the hole at a constant speed by use of a cable, and the cable speed and impeller revolution are used to workout the relative speed of the fluid in the hole. In the geophysical logging, a probe attached to the leading end of a logging cable is replaced with other probes so as to acquire different geophysical data. In a hole drilled in a crack-abundant rockbed such as a granitic rockbed, the inflow and outflow of ground water is governed mainly by water-permeable crack zones, and the result of the flowmeter logging show that this hole has three highly water-permeable zones. Using the results of the loggings, a correlative equation is worked out between changes in flow speed and changes in permeability index obtained by hydraulics tests. Among the various results achieved by the geophysical logging, a fine correlationship is found between an equation relative to permeability obtained using electricity and density and water-permeability indexes obtained by hydraulic tests conducted in situ. 4 refs., 8 figs., 1 tab.

Reemplazo de volumen: Coloides (I

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Gladis A. Lobaina Bárzaga

2004-06-01

Full Text Available El reemplazo de volumen tiene el objetivo de lograr una adecuada perfusión al nivel celular y evitar que se sobreañada al proceso de isquemia el de reperfusión. Este fenómeno depende fundamentalmente de la interrelación entre el volumen sanguíneo, el tono vascular y el funcionamiento de la bomba cardíaca. La alteración de uno de ellos produce diferentes tipos de shock, para constituir el volumen el factor más afectado; este puede ser real y/o funcional, de ahí las diferencias en el manejo de la hemodinamia en el paciente críticamente enfermo. Los coloides en la actualidad, constituyen una opción eficaz para los diferentes casos de hipovolemia.The volume replacement is aimed at attaining an adequate perfussion at the cellular level and at preventing that the reperfussion be overadded to the ischemic process. This phenomenon depends mainly on the interrelation between the blood volume, the vascular tone and the functioning of the heart pump. The alteration of one of them produces different types of shock To be the most affected factor, the volume may be real and/or functional. That's why there are differences in the management of the hemodynamics in the critically ill patient. Colloids are at present an efficient option for the different cases of hypovolemia.

Síncope inducido por el ejercicio: Reporte de un caso Exercise-induced syncope: case report

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Andrés Alvarado

2011-04-01

Full Text Available El síncope asociado con el ejercicio es una condición que debe alertar al médico tratante; en primera instancia, se descartan alteraciones estructurales cardiacas que predispongan a muerte súbita, y en segundo lugar se evalúa la presencia de arritmias que potencialmente causen esta condición. En pacientes mayores de 35 años se descartan la enfermedad coronaria y las valvulopatías como eventuales causas. En sujetos que entrenan de manera frecuente, el tono vagal aumentado es una condición adaptativa común que a veces puede causar síncope cardioinhibitorio asociado con el ejercicio, cuya presentación puede variar desde bradiarritmias hasta asistolia, por lo cual constituye un reto diagnóstico.Exercise-induced syncope is a condition that should alert the treating physician; structural cardiac abnormalities that predispose to sudden death should be discarded, and the presence of arrhythmias that may potentially cause this condition are evaluated. In patients over 35 years, coronary and valvular disease are ruled-out as a possible cause of syncope associated with exercise. In subjects who train frequently, increased vagal tone is a common adaptive condition that may sometimes cause cardio-inhibitory syncope associated with exercise, whose presentation may vary from bradyarrhythmia to asystolia, thereby providing a diagnostic challenge.

Determination of reference values for intraocular pressure and Schirmer tear test results in clinically normal domestic donkeys (Equus asinus).

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Selk Ghaffari, Masoud; Sabzevari, Amin; Ghamsari, SeyedMehdi; Shad, Hussein

2017-11-25

This study was conducted to establish normal reference range for the Schirmer tear test (STT) and intraocular pressure (IOP) in clinically normal donkeys for use in clinical practice. Sixteen adult Ethiopian domestic donkeys were used in this study. Complete ophthalmic examinations were performed without chemical restraint. STT values were evaluated in both eyes of all donkeys using a commercial STT strip. IOP was measured in both eyes with a Tono-Pen Vet (Reichert. USA) without using regional nerve blocks. STT values for all eyes (n=32) were 22.1±6.9 mm/minute with a range of 13-35 mm/minute. Comparison of mean STT values between right (n=16) and left eyes (n=16) showed no differences (P=0.6). Mean ±sd IOP values by applanation tonometry were 17.8±3.7 mmHg (range 13.5-24.5 mmHg). Comparison of mean IOP values between right (n=16) and left eyes (n=16) showed no differences (P=0.7). This initial survey provides means and ranges for IOP and STT values in donkeys. These data will assist veterinary ophthalmologists in more accurate diagnosis and management of ophthalmic diseases in donkeys, including keratoconjunctivitis sicca and glaucoma. © British Veterinary Association (unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted.

¿Es neutral la información sobre resultados?

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Óscar Suárez Fernández

2016-07-01

Full Text Available Los estados financieros numéricos, para su adecuada interpretación, necesitan ser enmarcados en un contexto de referencia, datos facilitados por la empresa en su información narrativa. El objetivo del presente trabajo es el estudio de la neutralidad de la información contenida en el informe de gestión, cualidad fundamental para que la información divulgada por las empresas sea fiable y, por lo tanto, de calidad. Para ello analizamos el empleo de diversas estrategias de manipulación de la información narrativa durante el período 2007-2009 en una muestra de empresas españolas cotizadas. Los resultados alcanzados respaldan la hipótesis de que la información narrativa está orientada hacia las relaciones públicas, siendo utilizada para tratar de construir y proyectar una determinada imagen. Así, cuando las empresas sufren un deterioro en su desempeño financiero, son poco objetivas en la descripción de dicho desempeño: elaboran una información de difícil lectura, no emplean un tono pesimista y no divulgan más noticias malas que buenas. Además, en estas empresas se tiende a atribuir la responsabilidad de las malas noticias a factores externos a las mismas.

Índice de perfusión periférica en la UCI neonatal: una respuesta a la monitorización no invasiva del recién nacido crítico

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I. De La Peña Sanabria

2017-06-01

Full Text Available La necesidad de abordar y monitorear a los pacientes de forma mínimamente invasiva pero de manera más exacta reduciendo así el número de complicaciones, es lo que permitió desarrollar a través de los años el concepto de índice de perfusión. El índice de perfusión refleja el tono vasomotor periférico, gracias a la relación de las ondas pulsátiles y no pulsátiles medidas a través de un oxímetro de pulso. El recién nacido, particularmente el pretérmino, goza de una serie de características que lo hacen más vulnerable ante ciertas situaciones clínicas, del mismo modo, la respuesta fisiológica difiere de la de otros grupos poblacionales. De ahí el principal interés en esta nueva herramienta, la cual ayudaría a entender la compleja fisiología cardiovascular neonatal y de esta forma interpretar mejor su respuesta, realizando intervenciones oportunas. El siguiente artículo desarrolla la historia y las bases fisiológicas que ayudaron a desarrollar el índice de perfusión, además describe los estudios más recientes en la población neonatal.

¿Qué es conducta?

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Esteve Freixa i Baqué

2003-01-01

Full Text Available La definición de la Psicología como ciencia de la conducta adoptada por el Conductismo supone e implica a su vez una conceptualización clara y unívoca de dicho concepto. Pero tal definición se enfrenta con una serie de malentendidos tenaces que dificultan no sólo la comprensión de dicho concepto básico sino también, en consecuencia, la propia conceptualización conductista. El propósito del presente trabajo es intentar exponer algunos de estos malentendidos, entre los que destacan los errores categoriales groseros, los procesos de reificación abusiva, los razonamientos tautológicos disfrazados, la generalización imprudente del modelo médico al ámbito de la conducta y la confusión nefasta entre un fenómeno y su conceptualización. Para ello, y con un tono más didáctico que académico, se recurre a una serie de metáforas de la vida cotidiana: la parte escondida del iceberg no es más que iceberg, las piedras no caen por su propio peso, los hombres y las mujeres no mueren porque son mortales, el bacilo de Koch existe y la máscara no es el rostro.

La Iglesia en Brasil en los años treinta: del anti-liberalismo a la defensa de la democracia

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Sixirei Paredes, Carlos

2001-12-01

Full Text Available This work analyzes the effort of the catholic Church to take advantage of the Revolution of 1930 to cristianize the Estado Novo. The A. emphasizes the work of Cardinal Leme and the catholic journals Vozes and To Ordem. Nevertheless, the result did not allow the hegemony of the Church that it had to compete with the corporative State. The study explain the diverse political positions in the the catholic world, from the facist parties like the Integralismo to the left parties along with the development of the catholic unions and the Catholic Action. The intellectual influence of Amoroso Lima stands out in the period.

Se analiza el esfuerzo de la Iglesia católica por aprovechar la Revolución de 1930 para dar un tono más cristiano al estado Novo. Destaca la labor del cardenal Leme y de los órganos de prensa católicos Vozes y A Ordem. Sin embargo, el resultado no permitió la hegemonía de la Iglesia que tuvo que competir con el Estado corporativo. Se precisan las diversas posturas políticas de los católicos, desde los partidos fascistas como el Integralismo a los de izquierda pasando por el desarrollo de los sindicatos católicos y la Acción Católica. Se destaca la influencia intelectual de Amoroso Lima.

Geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and the role of rock engineering

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Sugihara, Kozo

2008-01-01

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and its predecessors have been conducting an extensive geoscientific research program since the 1970's in order to contribute to the formation of a firm scientific and technological basis for the geological disposal of high level radioactive waste in Japan. As a part of this program, in situ experiments have been performed at the Tono Mine in soft sedimentary rocks and at the Kamaishi Mine in hard crystalline rocks. An experiment on excavation disturbance has been one of these experiments and has revealed the extent and properties of the excavation disturbed zone (EDZ) and the applicability of available measurement methods. It is suggested that mechanical excavation and controlled excavation have reduced excavation damage of the rock mass around a drift, although some improvements in the currently available methods for measuring and simulating the EDZ are essential to understand excavation disturbance in more detail. JAEA is now promoting two underground research laboratory projects in Japan; the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project for crystalline rocks and the Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (Horonobe URL) project for sedimentary rocks. From a rock mechanical point of view, the major interest in these projects will be paid to failure phenomenon deep underground, rock stress estimation at larger scales and long-term physical stability of underground structure. These projects are open for international collaboration. (author)

EVALUATION OF IRIDOCILIARY AND LENTICULAR ELASTICITY USING SHEAR-WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY IN RABBIT EYES

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Efstathios T. Detorakis

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Introduction: A previous study has employed shear-wave ultrasound elastographic imaging to assess corneal rigidity in an ex-vivo porcine eye model. This study employs the same modality in vivo in a rabbit eye model in order to assess lens, ciliary body and total ocular rigidity changes following the instillation of atropine and pilocarpine. Methods: Ten non-pigmented female rabbits were examined. Measurements of the lens, ciliary body and total ocular rigidity as well as lens thickness and anterior chamber depth were taken with the Aixplorer system (SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France with the SuperLinear™ SL 15-4 transducer in both eyes at baseline as well as after pilocarpine and atropine instillation. The IOP was also measured with the TonoPen tonometer. Results: Changes in rigidity in the examined areas following atropine instillation were statistically not significant. Ciliary body rigidity was significantly increased whereas lens and total ocular rigidity were significantly reduced following pilocarpine instillation. The decrease in lens rigidity following pilocarpine was significantly associated with the respective increase in ciliary body rigidity. Conclusions: Shear-wave ultrasound elastography can detect in vivo rigidity changes in the anterior segment of the rabbit eye model and may potentially be applied in human eyes, providing useful clinical information on conditions in which rigidity changes play an important role, such as glaucoma, pseudoexfoliation syndrome or presbyopia.

Evaluation of iridociliary and lenticular elasticity using shear-wave elastography in rabbit eyes.

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Detorakis, Efstathios T; Drakonaki, Eleni E; Ginis, Harilaos; Karyotakis, Nikolaos; Pallikaris, Ioannis G

2014-01-01

A previous study has employed shear-wave ultrasound elastographic imaging to assess corneal rigidity in an ex-vivo porcine eye model. This study employs the same modality in vivo in a rabbit eye model in order to assess lens, ciliary body and total ocular rigidity changes following the instillation of atropine and pilocarpine. Ten non-pigmented female rabbits were examined. Measurements of the lens, ciliary body and total ocular rigidity as well as lens thickness and anterior chamber depth were taken with the Aixplorer system (SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France) with the SuperLinear™ SL 15-4 transducer in both eyes at baseline as well as after pilocarpine and atropine instillation. The IOP was also measured with the TonoPen tonometer. Changes in rigidity in the examined areas following atropine instillation were statistically not significant. Ciliary body rigidity was significantly increased whereas lens and total ocular rigidity were significantly reduced following pilocarpine instillation. The decrease in lens rigidity following pilocarpine was significantly associated with the respective increase in ciliary body rigidity. Shear-wave ultrasound elastography can detect in vivo rigidity changes in the anterior segment of the rabbit eye model and may potentially be applied in human eyes, providing useful clinical information on conditions in which rigidity changes play an important role, such as glaucoma, pseudoexfoliation syndrome or presbyopia.

Desarrollo de la competencia prosódica en la lectura en voz alta: importancia de las pausas

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Aintzane Etxebarria

2016-01-01

Full Text Available En los últimos años se ha constatado un aumento de estudios sobre los elemen - tos prosódicos del texto (tono, pausas, etc., que defienden la necesidad de trabajar estos componentes de la competencia comuni - cativa oral para mejorar la comprensión de los textos leídos en voz alta. Con el objetivo de estudiar las pausas como elementos que estructuran el discurso, en este estudio se computan los tipos de pausas, se identifican algunos aspectos a trabajar y, por último, se especifica el peso de algunas variables como las lenguas maternas, el género y la proce - dencia en la realización de las pausas den - tro de estructuras indivisibles. Para ello se ha realizado un experimento a partir de un texto periodístico, leído en voz alta, sobre un corpus de 100 informantes vascos bilingües con edades comprendidas entre los 18 y 25 años, y estudiantes de las Escuelas de Ma - gisterio de la UPV/EHU. Del estudio estadís - tico de los datos se concluye que los tipos de pausas más empleados por los jóvenes lecto - res son las silenciosas, que la posición de las pausas a menudo es incorrecta y que las len - guas maternas influyen significativamente en este hecho.

Groundwater flow analysis on local scale. Setting boundary conditions for groundwater flow analysis on site scale model in step 1

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Ohyama, Takuya; Saegusa, Hiromitsu; Onoe, Hironori

2005-05-01

Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute has been conducting a wide range of geoscientific research in order to build a foundation for multidisciplinary studies of the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of nuclear wastes. Ongoing geoscientific research programs include the Regional Hydrogeological Study (RHS) project and Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project in the Tono region, Gifu Prefecture. The main goal of these projects is to establish comprehensive techniques for investigation, analysis, and assessment of the deep geological environment at several spatial scales. The RHS project is a local scale study for understanding the groundwater flow system from the recharge area to the discharge area. The surface-based Investigation Phase of the MIU project is a site scale study for understanding the groundwater flow system immediately surrounding the MIU construction site. The MIU project is being conducted using a multiphase, iterative approach. In this study, the hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow analysis of the local scale were carried out in order to set boundary conditions of the site scale model based on the data obtained from surface-based investigations in Step 1 in site scale of the MIU project. As a result of the study, head distribution to set boundary conditions for groundwater flow analysis on the site scale model could be obtained. (author)

Distribuição geográfica de Psychosaura agmosticha (Rodrigues, 2000 (Squamata, Mabuyidae

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Arnaldo Magalhães Júnior

2014-03-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2014v27n2p217 Durante as atividades de resgate de fauna do Projeto de Integração do Rio São Francisco com as bacias do nordeste setentrional foram capturados 39 exemplares de Psychosaura agmosticha (Rodrigues, 2000 em localidades nos estados do Ceará, Paraíba e Pernambuco, região Nordeste do Brasil. Relacionamos estes registros aos encontrados na literatura e constatamos a espécie em quatro formações fitofisionômicas distintas: Dunas arenosas do rio São Francisco, caatinga arbustiva, caatinga arbórea e formações de florestas residuais e ecotonais. A ampliação da distribuição geográfica e os novos registros de ocorrência de P. agmosticha, bem como sua ocorrência em diferentes formações fitofisionômicas da Caatinga e em áreas de florestas residuais e ecótonos, demonstram que, apesar de sua distribuição geográfica ser mais ampla do que se conhecia, seu padrão de distribuição relictual ainda se mantém, em virtude da ocorrência de P. agmosticha estar relacionada à ocorrência de bromélias. Contudo, o endemismo da espécie para o bioma Caatinga parece não ser absoluto.

Study of street-blockades caused by a large earthquake; Daishinsaiji ni okeru doro heisoku ni knsuru kenkyu (Hanshin Awaji daishinsai ni okeru jittai bunseki)

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Imaizumi, K. [Kajima Corp., Tokyo (Japan); Asami, Y. [The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)

1999-09-30

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake caused great damage to roads. Not only on highways, but even in regional communities, a considerable number of streets became unusable because of falls of buildings, etc. to roads and occurrence of bumps. It provided obstacles in refuge and rescue activities. In building cities preparing for earthquake in future, it is important to re-evaluate how to make the road network including narrow streets. Therefore, paying attention to the physical distance of the roads in earthquake and the number of the points which people cannot reach, clarified was the relation between those phenomena and the characteristics of towns/roads which the region has. As an example of Higashinada-ward, Kobe-city, this report analyzed the data on the actual state from the aspects written below which become especially important in actions taken immediately after earthquake, and described the information/knowledge obtained therefrom: (1) difference in arrival distance between usually and in earthquake in case of walking from residence place to refuge place; (2) state of occurrence of the points where people cannot reach in going to hospitals by ambulance. (NEDO)

FY 2000 report on information exchanges/analytical survey for improvement of energy consumption efficiency; 2000 nendo energy shohi koritsuka joho kokan bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2001-03-01

For the purpose of surveying the situation of the arrangement of methods of energy conservation promotion and the emissions trading system in developing countries by Japan having the effectiveness or in cooperation with developed countries, information was collected through the participation in international conferences related to energy conservation promotion, etc. and by visits at governmental organizations in charge in developed countries and developing countries. The results of the survey were classified into the following four items: 1) survey method; 2) exchanges of information on energy conservation in main 3 developing counties; 3) exchanges of information of energy conservation in the main developed countries; 4) exchanges of information of the emissions trading system (international trading system of energy conservation values (greenhouse effect gas emission right)). In 4), survey was made on the following: the emissions trading system for the inside of company group (BP-Amoco), the details of the emissions trading system for one country (the U.K.), the grapple with the emissions trading by a private trading organization (NATSOURCE Co.), and the handle with the emissions trading system by each of the OECD countries. (NEDO)

Leading research in fiscal 1996. Research study on advanced measurement/analysis technology; 1996 nendo sendo kenkyu. Kodo keisoku bunseki gijutsu ni kansuru chosa kenkyu

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1997-03-01

For development of production technologies suitable for environment, safety and advanced information-oriented society by improving the flexibility of production lines, some new measurement technologies were researched. Problem solution was attempted by combining the in-situ multi-dimensional measurement technology capable of easily obtaining various 3-D information with the non-contact photon measurement technology superior in operability and sensitivity under any environment conditions. This solution requires a compact radiation source with higher brightness and wider spectral range, and a high-sensitive detector. The technology concentrating photon onto minute regions, high-efficiency transmission, and control technology of photon wave front are also necessary. Development and international standardization of a common interface is unavoidable. In addition, its network is essential for advanced use of multimedia,. In the future, the comfortable life surrounded by advanced products and multimedia, comfortable social environment, safety and resource saving will be achieved by this technology. 94 refs., 75 figs., 15 tabs.

Quantitative analysis of the relationship between driver`s behavior and vehicle motion; Sharyo unten ni taisuru untensha no kyodo no teiryoka bunseki ni tsuite

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Nakagawa, H; Matsuura, Y [Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka (Japan); Masuda, T

1997-10-01

In order to study the subject of driving safety about the human-vehicle interaction, driver`s maneuvering behavior was shot by CCD-cameras installed in a cabin and the motion of traveling vehicle was simultaneously taken by VTR-cameras set on the test course. These pictures were analyzed using the three-dimensional image processing system (Peak Motus system). Consequently, this system was effectively able to use for these measurements and analysis and introduced the correlation between the vehicle movement and the driver`s action. 4 refs., 12 figs., 2 tabs.

Entrenamiento del vibrato en cantantes Vibrato training in singers

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Marco Antonio Guzmán

2011-06-01

Full Text Available TEMA: El vibrato de la voz es uno de los rasgos acústicos, técnicos y estilísticos más importantes en la caracterización de la cualidad de la voz en cantantes clásicos. Técnicamente, vibrato es una pulsación del tono, usualmente acompañada con pulsaciones sincrónicas de intensidad y timbre. El vibrato puede ser descrito acústicamente por el rate, extent y periodicidad de las modulaciones en frecuencia y modulaciones de la amplitud de la voz. El objetivo del presente artículo es mostrar y explicar un nuevo procedimiento para entrenar y corregir vibrato en cantantes. PROCEDIMIENTOS: Estudiante de canto lirico de 25 años, sexo masculino con clasificación vocal de barítono lirico, voz normal desde el punto de vista perceptual. La corrección del vibrato se realiza por medio del método "Entrenamiento rítmico del vibrato". Se produce la subdivisión rítmica de un pulso durante la emisión de una vocal con un "tempo" o velocidad constante. Posteriormente se varía la velocidad del pulso, las vocales y la melodía del ejercicio. Los parámetros acústicos del vibrato son evaluados objetivamente antes y después del entrenamiento. RESULTADOS: el paciente logró producir un vibrato con rate, extent y regularidad dentro de rangos normales. Esto se realizó de forma consciente y dirigida, utilizando actividad laríngea y abdominal en forma conjunta. La naturalidad del vibrato continuó mejorando después de finalizado el entrenamiento. CONCLUSIONES: es posible el entrenamiento y/o corrección del vibrato en forma dirigida a través de ejercicios específicos destinados a ese objetivo. El apoyo visual cumple un rol importante en los resultados obtenidos.BACKGROUND: vocal vibrato is one of the most important acoustic, technical and stylistic features to characterize the voice quality in classical singers. Technically, vibrato is a pulsation of pitch, usually accompanied with synchronous pulsations with intensity and timbre. Vibrato can be

Modifications in concrete superficial properties due to the use of different formworkrelease agents and plastic additives

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Beltramone, A.

2003-06-01

probetas, se realizó un registro digital, otorgando valores a las muestras mediante programas de ordenador, en cuanto a modificaciones de color y textura observadas, tomando como base la probeta de cemento sin aditivo. Se observó una migración de las partículas poliméricas de los aditivos hacia la superficie, presentando las modificaciones siguientes: Color: se registraron variantes de tono más obscuros que la probeta base. Textura: registrando menor rugosidad las probetas con aditivos formados por: éteres policarboxílicos modificados, éteres policarboxílicos, polímeros orgánicos modificados, y melaminas sintéticas modificadas; y una rugosidad más acentuada las probetas con aditivos formados por: melamina, naftalensulfonato condensado y derivados policarboxílicos; registrando las probetas base el mayor grado de rugosidad. El desencofrante parafínico respetó en mayor grado las propiedades de color de las probetas analizadas, en contraste con la probeta base; seguido por el de aceite mineral, con ligero incremento de tono; y finalmente el aceite de automóvil, con un incremento notable. Variando en igual medida la rugosidad presentada, desde un acabado casi liso el desencofrante parafínico, hasta uno muy rugoso con el de aceite de automóvil.

Japan`s largest composition dam, aiming for harmony with nature. Chubetsu dam; Shizen tono chowa wo mezasu, Nippon ichi no fukugo dam. Chubetsu dam

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Mizushima, T. [Hokkaido Development Bureau, Hokkaido Development Agency, Sapporo (Japan)

1994-08-15

This paper introduces Chubetsu Dam planned with a large-scale embankment having a river bed width of 600 m. Chubetsu Dam is being constructed with such objectives as flood control of Ishikari River, river flow rate maintenance, drinking water supply, irrigation water supply and power generation. The dam site is a gravel bed having a river bed width of 600 m and a maximum foundation rock thickness of 40 m, requiring evaluations as a dam foundation and discussions of water shielding methods. As a result of discussions at the Chubetsu Dam technical discussion committee, the dam type is decided to be a composition dam consisting of a gravity type concrete dam on the left river side and a central core type fill dam using a part of the gravel bed as the foundation on the right river side. A continuous underground wall system is planned to be used for shielding water in the gravel foundation. In discussing the anti-seismic properties, analyses for bank construction and water filling to derive stress and deformation conditions prior to an earthquake and a time-history response analysis to derive conditional changes during the earthquake are performed. According to the results thereof, evaluations are given on the safety by compounding the stress and the acceleration. In plans to improve the surrounding areas, an area will be provided upstream the reservoir where the water level is kept constant to serve as a bird sanctuary. 7 figs.

Material revolution, and analysis of its impacts on the industry and technology of the next generation; Zairyo kakumei to jisedai sangyo gijutsu eno impact bunseki

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1984-03-01

This paper discusses possibility of advanced materials from seeds and expectations from needs; and also describes consistency between the seeds and needs, and possible impacts of these materials on the industry and technology of the next generation. Chapter 1 presents the promising results and eventual possibilities, based on the basic studies, of the advanced materials, e.g., fine ceramics, highly functional polymers, new alloys and composite materials. Chapter 2 analyzes the properties and functions attainable by these materials, and expected applicable areas; investigates their technical and economical possibilities; and also investigates their ripple effects on the technology and economy. Chapter 3 investigates the current situations of the demands in the automobile, chemical plant and energy areas, and problems involved in development of these materials for these areas. Chapter 4 investigates the measures to promote consistency between the seeds and needs of these materials, and impacts of these advanced materials on the related techniques, related industries and industrial structures. Chapter 5 summarizes the problems and measures narrowed down in Chapters 1 to 4 comprehensively for the above areas; and the measures to be taken by the private sector, and cooperation by the industrial, government and academic circles. (NEDO)

Development of inspection system for vehicle interior transient noise using non-stationary signal analysis; Hiteijo shingo bunseki wo mochiita sharyo ion hantei system no kaihatsu

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Uchida, H; Ueda, K [Mazda Motor Corp., Hiroshima (Japan)

1997-10-01

A method to inspect the rattle, one of the transient noises of car interior, is developed. In the method, the waveform data of overall noise are analyzed using Wigner distribution, and its rattle component is condensed and separated from the background excitation noise. Then the rattle component is classified into three levels: strong, middle and none, using the neural network. A fuzzy inference is also used to select regular waveform measurements. Experimental results show that the correct classification ratio of the method is more than 90%, which equals skilled inspection operators in accuracy. 11 refs., 8 figs.

Fiscal 2000 pioneering research on the research on high-sensitivity passive measurement/analysis technologies; 2000 nendo kokando passive keisoku bunseki gijutsu no chosa sendo kenkyu

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2001-03-01

The above-named research was brought over from the preceding fiscal year. Needs for passive measurement were investigated, and it was found that what are named below were interested in passive measurement. Wanting passive measurement technology were the analysis of organic matters on semiconductor wafers, analysis of dangerous substances in wastes, measurement of substances in the life space causing allergy to chemical substances, measurement of constituents of gas emitted by organisms for example through expiration, measurement for automatic sorting of plastic wastes, 2-dimensional spectrometry for medical treatment of organisms, and so forth. In the survey of seeds, various novel technologies were investigated in the fields of optical systems, sensors, and signal processing. The outcomes of the survey indicated that high-sensitivity measurement and analysis of spectral images, measurement and analysis of trace quantities in he fields of medical treatment, environmental matters, and semiconductors would be feasible by the use of newly developed technologies involving the interference array type 2-dimensional modulation/demodulation device, 2-dimensional high-sensitivity infrared sensor, high-sensitivity systematization technology, mixed signal separation technology capable of suppressing noise and background light, and technology for increasing processing speeds. (NEDO)

Dos diálogos de Fénelon sobre la pintura

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Juan Antonio Calatrava Escobar

1989-01-01

Full Text Available Presentamos a continuación la traducción castellana de dos textos estéticos escasamente conocidos de Frangois Fénelon, quien, universalmente conocido como autor de Les Aventures de Telemaque o por sus posiciones políticas durante el reinado de Luis XIV, no dejó de ocuparse a lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria intelectual de los problemas artísticos contemporáneos. Los textos en cuestión son dos diálogos que tienen por tema a la pintura y que, en la línea del helenismo confeso de Fénelon, imitan claramente la estructura y el tono de un cierto género de diálogos literario-filosóficos griegos cuyo máximo exponente sería Luciano de Samosata y que pretenden reproducir imaginarias conversaciones, siempre de corte moralizante, celebradas en el Hades entre las almas de graneles personajes de la Historia. De hecho, los dos diálogos sobre la pintura fueron originalmente escritos para una obra de mayor envergadura, los Dialogues des Morts (1712, en los que se incluían diálogos con temáticas muy variadas pero casi siempre girando en torno a la misma problemática ética y a la reflexión política sobre la naturaleza del poder ya presente, como es bien conocido, en el Telemaque.

Comparison of the Effect of Atracurium and Cisatracurium on Intraocular Pressure and Pupillary Diameter

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Mansoor Masjedi

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Purpose: Although there are ample evidences for the effects (mostly decrease of intraocular pressure (IOP after the administration of atracurium and cisatracurium during general anesthesia in ophthalmic operations, no study has yet been done to compare their effects on both IOP and pupillary diameter (PD simultaneously. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is any difference between the effects of atracurium and cisatracurium on IOP and PD.Methods: Sixty patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists class I-II without history of previous eye surgery were studied in two randomly divided, double-blind groups. Following induction of anesthesia, atracurium (0.6 mg/kg and cisatracurium (0.15 mg/kg were administered to each group. IOP was measured by applanation tonometry (TONO – PEN ® XL and PD (COLVARD pupillometer at six sequential occasions, before induction of anesthesia, 2 and 5 minutes after induction and 2, 5 and 10 minutes after intubation prior to initiation of operation. Then they were compared to each other.Results: Trend of recorded IOP and PD values showed that there were no statistically significant differences between atracurium and cisatracurium according to their effect on IOP (p=0.125 and PD (p>0.137 during the course of study. Conclusion: It seems that both atracurium and cisatracurium have similar effects on IOP and PD before and up to ten minutes after tracheal intubation prior to surgical intervention.

Lengua ticuna: resultados de fonología y mortosintaxis

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Montes Rodríguez Maria Emilia

2004-06-01

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Las lenguas aisladas de la Amazonia suscitan el interés de la teoría lingüística y de los estudios interdisciplinarios sobre rutas migratorias amerindias y áreas culturales. Desde el punto de vista fonológico el ticuna tiene sílaba abierta, un sistema pleno de vocales nasales, un sistema consonántico relativamente simple y tres tonos fonológicos (alto, medio y bajo dentro de un sistema tonal restringido. Hay fenómenos dialectales que suponen otros subsistemas fonológicos. Desde el punto de vista morfosintáctico hay muy pocos casos de fusión o amalgamas morfológicas. En la palabra, constituida en torno a una raíz nombre o una raíz verbo, hay un paradigma reducido de prefijos frente a una numerosa y variada sufijación, junto con algunas tendencias analíticas. Las dos principales clases de palabras son el nombre y el verbo, que tienen variadas flexiones; las otras clases (partículas de género, c1íticos modales, conectores discursivos no flexionan. El orden de constituyentes es S O V; la lengua muestra un sistema acusativo, el sujeto es el argumento privilegiado; el desplazamiento del objeto a la posición postverbal acarrea una serie de operaciones morfosintácticas, Los verbos son formas estables que reciben prefijos personales y algunos sufijos aspectuales.

Seguimiento del contorno externo de la boca en imágenes de vídeo Outer Lip contour tracking in video images

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Alexánder Ceballos

2009-01-01

Full Text Available El seguimiento preciso de la boca de una persona, cuando está hablando, es un desafío importante en varias aplicaciones, como la identificación de la cara o la interacción con el computador. La complejidad de forma, textura y color de la boca, y los cambios de iluminación y fondos de los posibles escenarios hacen que este sea aún un problema abierto. En este artículo se propone un algoritmo para el seguimiento del contorno externo de la boca, sin utilizar marcadores o alguna clase de maquillaje para resaltar los labios, basado en apariencia y en restricciones morfológicas definidas en el estándar MPEG-4. El algoritmo es robusto ante la presencia de barba, tono de piel y calidad de la imagen.An accurate tracking of a person's mouth when he/she is speaking is an important challenge in several applications such as face identification or interaction with computer. Complexity of shape, texture, and color of the mouth, as well as changes in lighting and backgrounds of possible scenarios makes of it an open problem yet. This article proposed an algorithm for a tracking of the mouth external contour without using markers or any kind of make-up for highlighting lips, based on appearance and morphological restrictions defined by the MPEG-4 Standard. Algorithm is robust before the presence of beard, skin tone, and image quality.

A study of groundwater monitoring data analysis using Artificial Neural Network model

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Watanabe, Kunio; Gautam, M.R.; Saegusa, Hiromitsu

2003-05-01

The results of groundwater flow modeling are to be justified using groundwater monitoring data in the hydrogeological characterization. On the other hand, hydraulic continuities of the geological structures, all of which are considered to have great effect on groundwater flow and/or groundwater quality, are to be estimated using the groundwater flow monitoring data with hydraulic response to some impacts such as borehole drilling, pumping test and so on. Therefore, the groundwater monitoring is important for characterizing the geological and hydrogeological environments. In order to characterize of hydrogeological environment using the monitoring data, it is important to evaluate the influence of artificial and natural impact on the monitoring data. In this study, the following three research works are carried out based on the groundwater monitoring data collected at the Tono area. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was adopted as the tool for monitoring data analysis. Runoff analysis for assessment of importance of soil moisture on runoff estimation in a catchment. Analysis of water level fluctuation for determination influence factors in the water level fluctuation and for filtering out the influence factors from the water level data . Analysis of hydraulic pressure fluctuation in deep geological formations for hydrogeological characterization and assessment of human influence on the pore pressure in deep formation. Through this study, applicability of ANN for analysis and interpretation of the groundwater monitoring data could be confirmed and methodology for utilization the monitoring data for understanding and characterization of hydrogeological environment could be developed. (author)

Inteligencia física aprende a ver el mundo con la mente de un físico

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Santaolalla, Javier

2017-01-01

¿Te imaginas meterte por un día en el cerebro de Sheldon Cooper? ¿O ponerte en la piel de Einstein por un rato? O las gafas de Schrödinger, el traje de Dirac, la bata de Planck o de Curie... Sí, todos tienen algo en común, todos son físicos. Y puedo atreverme a ir más lejos, también tienen algo en común contigo, amigo lector, sí, tú, aunque no te lo creas, también eres físico. ¿Acaso no te encoges cuando tienes frío? ¿No haces palanca para abrir una lata? ¿No soplas para apagar una vela? La física nos rodea, está en todas partes, porque somos física y, aunque no nos demos cuenta, la usas continuamente, más de lo que imaginas. Este libro nos invita a aventurarnos y ponernos las gafas de la física por un rato, a que te metas en el cerebro de un físico y veas el mundo desde otro punto de vista. Verás ondas electromagnéticas donde antes solo había luz, vibraciones y movimiento cuando sientes frío o calor, o tonos, frecuencias y armónicos donde antes había música. Bucearás por los c...

Analyses of uranium series nuclides by alpha spectrometer on the uranium deposit

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Wismawati, T.

2000-01-01

The research is one of the program which was planned by PNC (Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation). In this research the analyses of the uranium series nuclide of rock samples from uranium Tono deposit, Japan have been carried out. The 17 samples were collected from Tsukiyoshi Fault, at Gallery X on Shaft 2 consist of granite, sedimentary rocks and fault area. The aim of the research is to determine the area of U accumulation, equilibrium and leaching. The samples were treated by chemical reagent, separated by ion exchange resin and extracted by organic compounds. The uranium and thorium were deposited on the stainless steel plate surface by the electrolysis process. The activity of uranium and thorium was determined by alpha spectrometer. From the analyses data have been obtained that shows that the maximum activity of 238 U is 3.6798±0.1873 Bq/g, activity 234 U is 3.5450±0.1805 Bq/g and activity 230 Th is 3.6720±0.1868 Bq/g. The ratio figure 234 U/ 238 U versus 2 34 U / 2 30 T h has been drawn. As the conclusion, 6 samples point (No.3, 5, 8, 11, 13 and 16) lied in or on the boundary of the uranium accumulation area, 7 samples (No. 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15 and 17) are very close to the equilibrium position, 4 points (No. 1, 2, 7, and 14) in the leaching process. (author)

La cumbre Iberoamericana: oportunidad para que y para quien

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Ernesto SAMPER PIZARRO

2009-11-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN: En este artículo, el autor señala las oportunidades que ofrece la celebración de la Cumbre Iberoamericana en la profundización y mejoramiento de la relación entre el hemisferio latinoamericano y España como parte de Europa. Con un tono optimista moderado, apunta los campos en los que esta relación puede ser más posible y más fructífera: el comercio, la cooperación empresarial, la tecnología y el conocimiento. El Plan Iberoamérica y el Foro Político son sólo el inicio de estas tendencias. Así mismo, se muestra confiado en que la Cumbre pueda apoyarse en una nueva idea latinoamericana que signifique un fortalecimiento de la democracia social.ABSTRACT: The author points out the opportunities that offer the Latin American Unit of Nations to be held at Madrid for Latin American Countries and Spain as part of Europe to deepen and improve their relations. With certain optimism it is shown the fields in with these relations can be possible and more fruitful: Trade, business cooperation, technology and knowledge. The Latin American Plan and the Political Forum are only the beginning of these tendencies. Likemore the author is hopeful that the Summit can be supported by a new Latin America idea wich means a strengthening of social democracy.

Después del Imperio Romano y antes del año mil: morfología urbana, técnicas constructivas y producciones cerámicas

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Azkarate Garai-Olaun, Agustín

2003-12-01

Full Text Available This work, circumscribed to the reduced context of the two posters presented at the International Seminar of Archaeology of Architecture (Domestic Medieval Architecture I,II constitutes an advance of a book to be published in summer, 2004. The objective, consequently, is no other than to show briefly and from three different but consubstantial viewpoints – urban morphology, construction techniques and ceramic production – the evolution of settlements from the late-antique centuries to the high-medieval centuries. The work as a result takes on a necessarily synthetic and simplified tone, reducing to a minimum the critical apparatus and other bibliographic resources.Este trabajo, circunscrito al reducido marco de los dos pósters que se presentaron en el Seminario Internacional de Arqueología de la Arquitectura (Arquitectura doméstica medieval I, II, constituye un avance de un libro que verá la luz en verano de 20041. El objetivo, en consecuencia, no es otro que mostrar de una manera muy breve y desde tres ópticas diferentes pero consustanciales —morfología urbana, técnicas constructivas y producciones cerámicas—, la evolución del poblamiento a lo largo de los siglos tardoantiguos y altomedievales. Tanto en su fondo como en su forma adquirirá, por tanto, un tono forzosamente sintético y simplificado, reduciendo al máximo el aparato crítico y otros recursos bibliográficos.

ESR study on the interaction between carbon blacks and oxygen molecules; ESR ho ni yoru carbon black to sanso bunshi tono sogo sayo no kenkyu

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Okazaki, M.; Toriyama, K.; Konishi, Y. [National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya, Nagoya (Japan)

2000-02-24

Interaction between carbon blacks and oxygen molecules has been studied by means of electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The ESR spectra of the carbon blacks appears at the g-value of free spin, which are contributed by both isolated electrons and conduction electrons. Upon introducing oxygen to the system the ESR linewidth was broadened in proportion to the partial pressure of oxygen. In case of lampblack (LB 101, Degussa) the interaction was not so strong that it took a tong time at 77K for the linewidth to reach the maxmum value. In case of gassblack (P 140 V, Degussa), on the other hand, the oxygen was easily adsorbed at 298K and the linewidth at 77K became its maximum immediately after cooling. The number of unpaired electrons decreased when the system was kept at 298 K and the decrease was prominent for the local spins. These phenomena have been explained with a simple band model for the electron. (author)

Intraocular Pressure Increases After Intraarticular Knee Injection With Triamcinolone but Not Hyaluronic Acid.

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Taliaferro, Kevin; Crawford, Alexander; Jabara, Justin; Lynch, Jonathan; Jung, Edward; Zvirbulis, Raimonds; Banka, Trevor

2018-03-09

Intraarticular steroid injections are a common first-line therapy for severe osteoarthritis, which affects an estimated 27 million people in the United States. Although topical, oral, intranasal, and inhalational steroids are known to increase intraocular pressure in some patients, the effect of intraarticular steroid injections on intraocular pressure has not been investigated, to the best of our knowledge. If elevated intraocular pressure is sustained for long periods of time or is of sufficient magnitude acutely, permanent loss of the visual field can occur. How does intraocular pressure change 1 week after an intraarticular knee injection either with triamcinolone acetonide or hyaluronic acid? A nonrandomized, nonblinded prospective cohort study was conducted at an outpatient, ambulatory orthopaedic clinic. This study compared intraocular pressure elevation before and 1 week after intraarticular knee injection of triamcinolone acetonide versus hyaluronic acid for management of primary osteoarthritis of the knee. Patients self-selected to be injected in their knee with either triamcinolone acetonide or hyaluronic acid before being informed of the study. The primary endpoint was intraocular pressure elevation of ≥ 7 mm Hg 1 week after injection. This cutoff is determined as the minimum significant pressure change in the ophthalmology literature recognized as an intermediate responder to steroids. Intraocular pressure was measured using a handheld Tono-Pen® applanation device. This device is frequently used in intraocular pressure measurement in clinical and research settings; 10 sequential measurements are obtained and averaged with a confidence interval. Only measurements with a 95% confidence interval were used. Over a 6-month period, a total of 96 patients were approached to enroll in the study. Sixty-two patients out of 96 approached (65%) agreed. Thirty-one (50%) were injected with triamcinolone and 31 (50%) were injected with hyaluronic acid. Patients

Dietary patterns and risk of oral cancer: a case-control study in São Paulo, Brazil Padrões dietéticos e risco de câncer oral: estudo caso-controle em São Paulo

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Dirce Maria Lobo Marchioni

2007-02-01

ao consumo de grupos de alimentos definidos a posteriori, por análise fatorial. O primeiro fator, denominado "prudente", caracterizou-se pelo consumo de vegetais, frutas, queijos e aves. O segundo, "tradicional", pelo consumo de arroz e massas, leguminosas e carne, enquanto o terceiro, "lanches", pelo consumo de pão, manteiga, embutidos, queijos e doces. O último, "monótono", associou-se inversamente ao consumo de frutas e vegetais, e a maior parte dos outros itens alimentares. Calculou-se um escore para cada padrão derivado, para casos e controles. Após categorização dos escores em tercis, de acordo com a distribuição dos controles, estimou-se a odds ratio e o intervalo de confiança de 95% por regressão logística múltipla não condicional. RESULTADOS: O padrão "tradicional" relacionou-se inversamente com o câncer oral (OR=0,51; IC 95%: 0,32; 0.81, p=0,140, enquanto o padrão "monótono" associou-se positivamente (OR=1,78; IC 95%: 1,78; 2,85, p<0,001. CONCLUSÕES: Os resultados sugerem que o prato tradicional do brasileiro, composto de arroz e feijão, mais quantidades moderadas de carne, pode conferir proteção quanto ao câncer oral, independente de outros fatores de risco reconhecidos, como consumo de álcool e tabaco.

Diversidade e ocorrência temporal da anurofauna (Amphibia, Anura em São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brasil Diversity and seasonal occurrence of anurans in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil

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Carlos E. Conte

2006-03-01

Full Text Available A Floresta Atlântica é o bioma com a maior diversidade e taxa de endemismo de anfíbios anuros do mundo. Entretanto, informações sobre a história natural e os padrões de ocorrência das espécies são, em grande parte, ainda desconhecidas para esse bioma. No presente estudo, a diversidade e a ocorrência temporal de espécies de anuros foram determinadas em área de ecótono entre Floresta Ombrófila Densa e Floresta Ombrófila Mista no estado do Paraná, sul do Brasil. No levantamento, realizado entre janeiro de 2003 e maio de 2004, foram registradas 34 espécies de cinco famílias: Bufonidae (duas espécies, Hylidae (17 espécies, Leptodactylidae (13 espécies, Microhylidae (uma espécie e Ranidae (uma espécie. A riqueza registrada é uma das maiores do Paraná e oito, dos nove hábitats amostrados, apresentaram alta diversidade de espécies. Isso pode ser decorrente do fato da área estudada estar localizada em região de ecótono, o que favoreceu a ocorrência de espécies típicas de cada formação vegetal. Além disso, uma hipótese adicional é a do distúrbio intermediário, decorrente do desmatamento ocorrido até trinta anos atrás, que possibilitou a ocorrência de algumas espécies típicas de áreas abertas. Machos da maioria das espécies (48% vocalizaram no período chuvoso e quente do ano, mas a proporção de espécies anuais (25% foi grande, semelhante à encontrada em regiões com clima tropical úmido (30%. A similaridade na composição de espécies de nove localidades no Paraná foi associada à fisionomia vegetal das áreas amostradas.The Atlantic Forest is the biome with the largest biodiversity and endemism rate of anuran amphibians in the world. However, information on natural history and patterns of occurrence are still unknown for most of the species that occur in this biome. In this study the diversity and the seasonal occurrence of anuran amphibians were determined in an ecotone area between Atlantic Forest

Influence of strain hardening and thickness changes occurring in press forming process; Seikeiji no kako koka/itaatsu henka no buzai akkai tokusei ni oyobosu eikyo bunseki

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Ueno, M; Hirota, K [Mazda Motor Corp., Hiroshima (Japan); Nakazawa, Y [Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd., Osaka (Japan)

1997-10-01

Most components of the body structure are produced by press forming. This process make a uniform metal sheet into a component that have various material characteristics and thickness. This paper describes the estimation method of material characteristics and thickness changes based on the measured Vickers hardness, and the influence of these changes on the crush performance by using FE analysis. 4 refs., 12 figs., 2 tabs.

Fiscal 1998 achievement report. Research and development of simplified dioxin analyzing technology, etc.; 1998 nendo dioxin kan'i bunseki gijutsu nado kenkyu kaihatsu seika hokokusho

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2000-03-01

A simplified method is developed, which measures dioxins in flue gas without using GC/MS (gas chromatography/mass spectrometry) of the double focusing type. The sampling device is built of two collecting bottles, containing water and diethylene glycol, and uses no XAD-2 (cross-linked amberlight divinyl benzene) resin. Such a design does not need time consuming Soxlet extraction in the sampling process and shortens the processing time. An HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) system replaces the convenient column chromatography system in the cleanup process, and this enables automation and rapid treatment. For the measurement of toxicity equivalent, GC/MS is used to separate and quantify 17 kinds of toxic isomers as in the conventional method. The GC/MS is of the quadruple focusing type, however, and this reduces the device cost at the initial stage and shortens the time for operators to acquire the skills of maintenance and operation. Though the quadruple focusing type is inferior to the double focusing type in sensitivity, the shortcoming is compensated for by massive specimen injection using a PTV (programmable temperature vaporizer). The result of a JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) method and the result of this newly developed method are found to agree excellently with each other. This method is simple and efficient, suitable for use in the analysis of small incinerator flue gas. (NEDO)

Preparation and analysis of carbonization products from Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) wood; Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) zai no tanka seiseibutsu no chosei to bunseki

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Matsui, T.; Matsushita, Y.; Sugamoto, K.; Tokuda, Y. [Miyazaki University, Miyazaki (Japan). Faculty of Engineering; Kodama, K.; Nakata, K.; Oda, M.; Yamauchi, H. [Miyazaki Prefectural Institute of Industrial Technology, Miyazaki (Japan)

2000-01-10

The material balance of carbonization products (wood-gas, wood-vinegar, wood-tar and charcoal) prepared from the sapwood and the heartwood of Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica D. Don) at various temperatures was determined. The evolution of both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide mainly occurred at the carbonization temperature below 600 degree C and that of hydrogen and methane at 600-800 degree C. Total yield of the wood-vinegar and the wood-tar was almost constant at 500-800 degree C. On the other hand, the yield of the charcoal decreased because of the evolution of the wood gas with an increase in carbonization temperature. The wood-vinegars prepared at the temperature over 400 degree C were found to consist of carboxylic acids such as acetic acid and propionic acid, methanol, acetone, furans, alkylphenols, guaiacols, cyclotene and maltol by capillary gas chromatography. Since the constituent varieties and contents of the wood-vinegars prepared at both 400 degree C and 800 degree C were very similar each other, the wood-vinegar of Sugi wood chiefly produced below 400 degree C. FT-IR spectra of the charcoals showed the generation of carbonyl and olefin groups at 300-400 degree C and then the formation of aromatic rings along with the disappearance of carbonyl groups over 600 degree C. The production of radical species in the charcoals carbonized at 300-600 degree C was observed by ESR, on the contrary, the charcoals carbonized over 700 degree C were inactive. The specific surface area and the pore volume of the charcoal of Sugi sapwood increased with an increase in carbonization temperature. The pH of charcoal-dispersed aqueous solution increased with an increase in carbonization temperature. The high adsorptive activity of the charcoal carbonized at 400 degree C for ammonia gas and that at 800 degree C for hydrogen sulfide gas seemed to be dependent on acidic and basic properties of the charcoals, respectively. (author)

Report on investigation in fiscal 2000 of industrial technology exchange with international networking organizations; 2000 nendo kokusaitekina network gata soshiki tono sangyo gijutsu koryu chosa hokokusho

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With an objective to promote exchange of industrial technologies, investigations and analyses were made on identification of the current status of networking organizations in different countries working as windows for industrial technology exchange, and on the actual status of technology commercialization methods in overseas incubators. Activities were taken in the following three fields: 1) the current status of networking organizations and incubators in different countries, 2) typology of technology commercialization, technical fields, and success factors, and 3) possibility of the use of technology information in the networking organizations. In Item 1), investigations were performed on the current status and actual activity status of the networking organizations including research parks and individual incubators intended of information exchange, mainly in the United States, UK, and Finland. In Item 2), considerations are given on the points related to technology incubation based on the information about the networking organizations and incubators in each country, and the way the industry-academia cooperation should be. In Item 3), discussions were given on the roles of the networking organizations and the possibility of utilization of technological information in the networking organizations in Japan. (NEDO)

Modulación del tono vascular por la sobre-expresión de receptores a canabinoides CB1 y CB2 en arterioesclerosis inducida en ratas

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Espinoza P., María Rosa

2013-01-01

La arteriosclerosis, es un proceso degenerativo responsable de la mayor parte de las enfermedades cardiovasculares, es una enfermedad compleja que se produce a partir de múltiples factores de riesgo. Se ha observado que los compuestos derivados de la planta cannabis sativa provocan efectos vasorelajantes por medio de receptores específicos CB1 y CB2. ACPA y JWH 133 son potentes agonistas a estos receptores, se desconoce el papel que desempeñan en la arteriosclerosis provocando una relajación ...

La obra poética de Blas de Otero

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Fernando Carratalá

2006-12-01

Full Text Available El escritor vasco Blas de Otero (Bilbao, 15-3-1916; Majadahonda –Madrid–, 29-6- 1979 es, en opinión de amplios sectores de la crítica, uno de los poetas líricos más relevantes en el panorama de la poesía contemporánea española. Fue Premio Boscán de Poesía 1950 (Redoble de conciencia y Premio de la Crítica 1959 y Premio Fastenrath 1961 (An- cia. Otero se mantuvo al margen de grupos literarios siguiendo un camino muy personal, aunque en él aparecen las tendencias en las que crecen y maduran los nuevos poetas de la posguerra: poesía de tono religioso; poesía de intención anticlasicista y antiformalista (poesía «desarraigada», en denominación de Dámaso Alonso, en respuesta al neogarcilasismo de José García Nieto y otros poetas de la llamada «Juventud Creadora» –años 1939–1944 aproximadamente–, e iniciada en 1944 con dos grandes libros: Sombra del paraíso, de Vicente Aleixandre, e Hijos de la ira, de Dámaso Alonso, libros que traen una poesía más humana y auténtica; y la que se ha llamado poesía «social». Blas de Otero que- da inmerso en estas tres tendencias, pero sin dependencia, sin ser en ninguna de ellas un mero seguidor de una moda poética.

Análisis de la pigmentación cutánea en una muestra.

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Castanedo-Cazares, Juan Pablo; Hernández-Blanco, Diana; García-Cortés, Juan Diego; Medina-Aguilar, Liliana; Torres-Álvarez, Bertha

2018-01-01

La mezcla de melanina, hemoglobina y carotenos definen el color cutáneo. La pigmentación constitutiva está determinada genéticamente, la facultativa se induce cuando la piel se expone al ambiente. El objetivo fue cuantificar ambas pigmentaciones en una muestra de población mexicana, y analizar su relación con el género, edad y fototipo. Se evaluaron 259 personas durante un periodo invernal. La colorimetría cutánea se obtuvo mediante espectrometría de reflectancia difusa utilizando las coordenadas de la Comisión Internacional de Iluminación. Se registraron los valores L*a*b* y se estimó el ángulo tipológico individual (ATI°) en frente, tórax, cuello, antebrazos y glúteos. La pigmentación facultativa difirió de la constitutiva en los parámetros L*, a*, y ATIº. En hombres, los valores facultativos de L* y ATI° fueron menores. La pigmentación constitutiva fue similar entre sexos. Los fototipos III, IV y V muestran diferencias en L*, b* y ATI°. Los valores facultativos L*, a*, ATI° y el constitutivo a* se reducen al incrementarse la edad. Se cuantificaron los tonos cutáneos de una muestra de población reconociéndose los valores para la piel blanca, morena clara y morena oscura. Se presenta un marco de referencia para estudios relacionados con la pigmentación cutánea en México. Copyright: © 2018 SecretarÍa de Salud

HERENCIA ESTILÍSTICA Y VOLUNTAD DE RENOVACIÓN EN LA CRÍTICA LITERARIA ESPAÑOLA DE LOS SETENTA. ALGO SOBRE DÁMASO ALONSO, CARMEN BOBES NAVES Y ANTONIO GARCÍA BERRIO

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Vicente Tuset Mayoral

2015-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo desarrolla la hipótesis según la cual el predominio de la estilística obturó la recepción de los aspectos más fecundos y renovadores del paradigma epistemológico estructuralista. Para ello examinamos dos momentos: En primer lugar, las iniciales consideraciones de Dámaso Alonso en torno a Saussure, como hecho inaugural de esa recepción condicionada. Luego, analizamos dos títulos de principios de la década del setenta: Significado actual del formalismo ruso (1973, de Antonio García Berrio; y La semiótica como teoría lingüística (1973, de María del Carmen Bobes Naves. Lo que perseguimos en esta segunda parte es mostrar hasta qué punto las opiniones de Alonso siguen condicionando la recepción del estructuralismo en un momento clave para la renovación teórica de la crítica literaria española; y eso, además, para obras de tono y perspectivas muy disímiles, de las que puede decirse que representan polos opuestos  en un contexto, el de los últimos años de la dictadura franquista, que fue de gran agitación en el ámbito universitario, y en el que a menudo las demandas por la dignificación laboral y la democratización de las instituciones, se hermanaron con las de actualización y modernización de los planes de estudio.

Experimental circumferential canaloplasty with a new Schlemm canal microcatheter

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Mao-Song Xie

2018-01-01

Full Text Available AIM: To present a new, simple, inexpensive Schlemm canal microcatheter for circumferential canaloplasty in a rabbit model. METHODS: A rabbit glaucoma animal model was established by intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide. Circumferential canaloplasty with a new Schlemm canal microcatheter (patent license number: 201220029850.0 was performed. The Schlemm canal microcatheter was composed of microcatheter wall and lumen. The wall was made of high refractive index plastic optical fiber that could be attached to an illuminant so that the whole lighted microcatheter was visible during circumferential canaloplasty. The lumen could be attached to an injector for injection of viscoelastic during catheterization. Rabbits were divided randomly into the control, model and treatment groups. Intraocular pressure (IOP was measured with a Tono-pen tonometer pre-operation and 3, 7, 14, 21 and 28d post-operation. Ultrasound biomicroscopy was performed to visualize the Schlemm canal microcatheter in the Schlemm canal and the sclera pool. RESULTS: The Schlemm canal microcatheter could be used to perform circumferential canaloplasty in the rabbit glaucoma animal model. IOP was lower in the treatment group than that in the model group 3, 7, 14 and 28d after operation. There were no significant differences in IOP between the control group and treatment group. The differences among the three groups were statistically significant (3d: F=41.985, P<0.001; 7d: F=65.696, P<0.001; 14d: F=114.599, P<0.001; 28d: F=55.006, P<0.001. CONCLUSION: Circumferential canaloplasty is safe and effective in control of experimental glaucoma model in rabbits.

Integral energy policy; Politica energetica integral

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Bazan Navarrete, Gerardo [Programa Universitario de Energia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F. (Mexico)

2006-11-15

The guidelines of energy policy are normative directions that govern the energy sector and its relations with different objects, these guidelines must be in agreement with the national objectives so that they collaborate to its accomplishment. Camara Nacional de la Industria y Trasnformacion (CANACINTRA) and the University Program of Energy made a diagnosis and long term prospective of the Energy Sector. With the design of five possible growth scenarios to year 2030 the total demand of energy required for the 2030 was calculated with the purpose of determining the mixture of the primary energy sources to satisfy the projected demand. With such data a decalogue of recommendations was formulated that appeal for better policies of organization and action, promotions and forecasts to obtain an optimal national performance, competitive at international level. [Spanish] Los lineamientos de politica energetica son orientaciones normativas que rigen el sector energetico y sus relaciones con distintos objetos, estos lineamientos deben estar a tono con los objetivos nacionales de modo que colaboren a su realizacion. Camara Nacional de la Industria de Transformacion (CANACINTRA) y el Programa Universitario de Energia realizaron un diagnostico y prospectiva a largo plazo del sector energia. Con el diseno de cinco posibles escenarios de crecimiento al 2030 se calculo la demanda total de energia requerida para el 2030 con el fin de determinar la mezcla de energeticos primarios para satisfacer la demanda proyectada. Con tales datos se conformo un decalogo de recomendaciones que apelan a mejores politicas de organizacion y accion, fomentos y previsiones para lograr un optimo desempeno energetico nacional, competitivo a nivel internacional.

Modelo de la Escuela de Ciclismo para la formación integral de los ciclistas de alto Rendimiento Deportivo en Guayaquil - Ecuador

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Maritza Paula

2015-10-01

Full Text Available A nivel internacional el Ciclismo se ha colocado en unos de los peldaños más relevantes. El Ciclismo deporte espectáculo se ha diversificado en sus modalidades Olímpicas. En el mundo en la formación de los Atletas del Ciclismo solo se realiza el entrenamiento deportivo, es decir se tiende a hacer al hombre y la mujer una máquina que maneja otra máquina. En los tiempos actuales están ocurriendo profundos cambios tecnológicos en el área del ciclismo. La globalización es una variable relevante a tener en cuenta como resultado inevitable del desarrollo histórico de la sociedad, sus fuerzas productivas y el desarrollo de la ciencia y la técnica. El desarrollo del deporte en Latinoamérica incluido el Ciclismo tiene que estar a tono con las tendencias innovadoras que se están desarrollando en este “Cambio de Época”. El paradigma que debe regir en nuestros países es el rescate de los principios del amateurismo, adecuados a las condiciones económicas actuales y cuya base de realización debe ser un paradigma humanista. Un modelo de escuela para cualquier deporte y en particular para el ciclismo, debe contener en su concepción una triada obligatoria: la formación ciudadana, la formación cultural general integral, la formación deportivas estructuradas y coherentemente desarrolladas

The current uranium exploration activities of the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), Japan

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Miyada, H.

2001-01-01

As of November 1996, Japan's total installed commercial nuclear power generation capacity was 42 GW(e), accounting for 34% of total electric energy generation. By 2010, Japan intends to have an installed electricity generation capacity of 70.5 GW(e). This will increase the country's demand for nat Ural uranium from 7,700 t U in 1994 (13% of the world consumption) to 13,800 t U in 2010 (17%-19% of the world projected consumption). However, Japan's known uranium resources at Ningyo-Toge and Tono deposits, are estimated at roughly only 6,600 t U. The Long-term Programme for Research, Development and Utilization of Nuclear Energy (adopted in 1994) calls for diversification through long-term purchasing contracts, independent exploration and involvement in mining vent Ures, with the objective of ensuring independence and stability in Japan's development and utilization of nuclear energy. The Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) has been commissioned to carry out the task of independent exploration. PNC is carrying out exploration projects in Canada, Australia, USA and China targeting unconformity related type deposits with an eye to privatizing them. Currently about 40,000 t U of uranium resources are held by PNC. PNC has been carrying out the following related activities: (1) Reference surveys on uranium resources to delineate the promising areas; (2) Development of uranium exploration technology; (3) Information surveys on the nuclear industries to project long-term supply and demand; (4) International Cooperation programme on uranium exploration with Asian countries. (author)

Creación y apropiación de espacios sociales en el turismo gay: Identidad, consumo y mercado en el Caribe mexicano

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Martha García Ortega

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Full Text Available Desde hace por lo menos una década, se ha insistido mucho en la orientación mundial del turismo como una opción de desarrollo. Visto a través de estudios de mercadotecnia, este sector económico, sea cual sea su versión, ha proliferado y sentado sus reales en los rincones más remotos del planeta. Del lado de las ciencias sociales existen investigaciones antropológicas abo - cadas a diversos temas; uno de ellos refiere una extensión del paradigma de la otredad al estudiar los procesos de reconocimiento del otro en contextos turísticos. Una línea de trabajo más a tono en México, guiada por la noción de patrimonio, coloca al centro la explotación de los recursos culturales y naturales como fuente de atractivos para visitantes. A partir de estas dos perspectivas se presenta el caso del turismo gay en Cancún, ubicado en la demandante región del Caribe mexi - cano, cuyo despegue e intentos de consolidación como segmento turístico enfrentan diversos di - lemas de orden social y político. En ese entorno se analizan las prácticas de consumo en donde las identidades colectivas se debaten frente a modelos hegemónicos expuestos en los espacios socia - les de interacción creados por el mercado y apropiados como escenarios de contienda simbólica.

Taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho durante el embarazo Right ventricular outflow tachycardia during pregnancy

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Ariel K. Saad

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Durante el embarazo aumentan el metabolismo basal, el consumo de O2, la frecuencia cardíaca, el volumen sistólico, el volumen minuto y la volemia y disminuyen la tensión arterial y la resistencia periférica. Diferentes estudios han demostrado que durante este período la posibilidad de que ocurra una arritmia cardíaca o se produzca la exacerbación de una arritmia preexistente es mayor. No obstante, en su enorme mayoría carecen de importancia pronóstica tanto para la madre como para el feto. La taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho es una arritmia poco frecuente y su aparición se ha correlacionado con el aumento del tono adrenérgico. Se presentan los casos de dos pacientes que mostraron en el curso de la gestación reiterados episodios de taquicardia ventricular del tracto de salida del ventrículo derecho. Se analiza la asociación del embarazo con la ocurrencia de trastornos del ritmo cardíaco.During pregnancy, there is an increase in metabolism, oxygen consumption, heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, blood volume and a decrease in blood pressure and peripheral resistance. Studies have shown that during this period the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias is not uncommon. Fortunately, malignant arrhythmias are rare. Herein we report two young patients who presented with symptomatic right ventricular outflow tachycardia during pregnancy that required antiarrhythmic therapy. Possible pathophysiologic mechanisms are discussed.

Crecimientoy metabolismo: la regulación y la vía de la insulina desde la mosca de la fruta, Drosophila melanogaster

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Deyannira Otero-Moreno

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Drosophila melanogaster, la mosca de la fruta, es un organismo genético modelo que en años recientes se ha usado exitosamente para estudiar el control del metabolismo y el crecimiento. A pesar de poseer algunas diferencias con las vías de señalización homólogas a las de los vertebrados, las semejanzas son profundas y claras. En D. melanogaster, la vía de la insulina, homóloga a la de los vertebrados, regula tanto el metabolismo como el crecimiento del organismo a través de un receptor membranal único. A su vez, esta vía –que conjunta lo que en vertebrados es la vía de la insulina y la de los péptidos parecidos a la insulina- está regulada por la ingesta de nutrientes (carbohidratos y proteínas y por el control hormonal (hormona del crecimiento, ecdisona, upd2, hormona adipocinética, Ilp8. En consecuencia, normalmente se obtiene un crecimiento adaptable a las condiciones nutricionales que influye, como en los vertebrados, en el promedio de vida y en la capacidad reproductiva con un tamaño típico y una diferenciación armónica, a tono con el bauplandel organismo. Por el contrario las mutaciones y desviaciones dan por resultado partes desproporcionadas, menor capacidad reproductiva, y disminución tanto del tamaño como de la proliferación, y hasta la muerte.

Phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of Pecan [Carya illinoinensis (Wangenh. C. Koch] kernel cake extracts obtained by sequential extraction

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Block, Jane Mara

2009-12-01

Full Text Available The total phenolic and condensed tannin contents of different Pecan kernel cake extracts (ether, acetone, alcohol and distilled water were estimated and their antioxidant activities were evaluated through ABTS, DPPH and ß-carotene/linoleic acid systems. Color variations of the Pecan kernel cake were determined through an instrumental analysis using the CIE Lab system. Significantly higher levels (p El contenido de taninos condensado y fenoles totales de diferentes extractos de tortas de almendra de pecana (éter, acetona, alcohol y agua destilada fueron estimados y sus actividades antioxidantes fueron evaluadas mediantes los métodos con ABTS, DPPH y el sistema ß-caroteno/ácido linoleico. Las variaciones de color de la torta de almendra de pecana fueron determinadas mediante análisis instrumental usando el sistema CIE Lab. Los contenidos de fenoles totales, taninos condensados y actividad antioxidante, medida mediante los métodos con ABTS Y DPPH (30 min y 24 h, fueron significativamente más altos (p < 0.05 con el extracto de acetona (16.4 mg GAE/g; 31.2 mg CE/g; 235.3 μmol TEAC/g and 68.6 and 100.3 mg TEAC/g, respectivamente. El porcentaje de inhibición de la oxidación en el sistema ß-caroteno/ ácido linoleico vario desde 37.9 a 93.1% con el extracto de acetona a 300 ppm, mostrando resultados significativamente superiores. Las muestras con una mayor tendencia a tonos rojos presento los niveles más altos de taninos condensados.

A contrapelo: reflexiones críticas sobre el presente y el futuro de los estudios sobre genocidio

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Henry C. Theriault

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Este artículo propone una crítica a ciertas tendencias dentro de los estudios sobre genocidio, entre las que aparecen el abuso del prestigio y de la obra de Lemkin, el alejamiento frente a las posturas del activismo académico contra el genocidio, el tono displicente con el que se aborda la agencia política de los grupos de víctimas, las tendencias relativistas del concepto de “políticas de la memoria” y su implementación, la creciente institucionalización del campo, el concepto de “generocidio” y la imagen opaca que supone la violencia genocida dirigida contra mujeres y niñas, el foco en la deshumanización como condición para el genocidio y el énfasis en las advertencias tempranas. El artículo también discute una nueva estrategia negacionista del genocidio. A la luz de ello, las advertencias tempranas sobre el genocidio son, en gran medida, inoperantes. Más allá de la indiferencia política que explica la existencia de genocidios perpetrados incluso en la actualidad, la preeminencia de este delito se debe al hecho de que el orden mundial del presente y muchas sociedades específicas fueron moldeados por el genocidio y la violación en masa y la opresión vinculadas con ese primer crimen. El artículo sostiene que un proceso global de reparación podría ayudar a encauzar el mundo y alejarlo de los fundamentos y tendencias genocidas.

MBC model analysis for predicting the rock behavior in excavating the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory

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Mori, Takayuki; Iwano, Keita; Nakajima, Makoto; Morikawa, Seiji; Tabei, Kazuto

2005-03-01

As a Phase 1 of MIU project (Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project), through the laboratory and borehole in-situ tests, JNC Tono Geoscience Center plans to constitute the comprehensive geological model and predicts the rock behaviors in excavating the shaft and gallery. These model and results leads to be reflected by the next step research projects. So far, the Phase 1 of MIU project is coming to final stage, and the Phase 2 will start at next year in which the in-situ researches are planned through the excavation. In this study, the comprehensive geometrical model was drawn out through the Phase 1 data, and MBC model analysis was carried out to predict the rock mass behavior around the shaft and gallery. The following results are obtained. 1. With MIZ-1 borehole core, artificial joints, which are assumed to be produced by rock blasting, were formed through the Brazilian test. And through the rock shear test for these joints, these mechanical properties were obtained. 2. By examining the MIZ-1 borehole research data, Mizunami site was classified by mechanical and joint properties and the Geomechanical model were made up. 3. Through the MBC model, the shaft and gallery cases were analyzed which depend on the rock mass classification, Excavation Damaged Zone, and the direction of the galleries. These results showed that in most cases, the joint opening were little because of the rock stiffness, but by the existence of high inclined joints, the side wall of the galleries were damaged by the excavation. (author)

Groundwater flow analysis on local scale. Setting boundary conditions of groundwater flow analysis on site scale model in the former part of the step 3

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Onoe, Hironori; Saegusa, Hiromitsu

2005-07-01

Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute has been conducting a wide range of geoscientific research in order to build a foundation for multidisciplinary studies of the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of nuclear wastes. Ongoing geoscientific research programs include the Regional Hydrogeological Study (RHS) project and Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) project in the Tono region, Gifu Prefecture. The main goal of these projects is to establish comprehensive techniques for investigation, analysis, and assessment of the deep geological environment at several spatial scales. The RHS project is a local scale study for understanding the groundwater flow system from the recharge area to the discharge area. The Surface-based Investigation Phase of the MIU project is a mainly site scale study for understanding the deep geological environment immediately surrounding the MIU construction site using a multiphase, iterative approach. In this study, the hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow analysis on the Local scale were carried out in order to set boundary conditions of the site scale model based on the data obtained from surface-based investigations in the former part of the Step 3 in site scale of the MIU project. As a result of the study, the uncertainty of hydrogeological model of the local scale and boundary conditions for the site scale model is decreased as stepwise investigation, and boundary conditions for groundwater flow analysis on the site scale model for the former part of the Step 3 could be obtained. (author)

Analysis method on the factors of slope disaster occurring place with its application. Shamen saigai hassei chiten ni okeru soin bunseki no ichishuho to oyosei ni tsuite

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Setojima, M [Kokusai Kogyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo (Japan); Shiraishi, K [Public works Research Institute, Tokyo (Japan)

1992-06-10

A proposal is made on a method to analyze a slope disaster in detail from a viewpoint of ''where the disaster occurred'' (to analyze in a line pattern the apertures of a collapse and main scarps in a land slide). Methodological emphasis was placed on superimposing aerial photograph images taken before and after a disaster over imaged information on factors based on land conditions including topographical characteristics. Applicability of this method was discussed using a landslide location in Niigata Prefecture as an example. This paper describes the result of tb discussion by the following items: Imaging the aerial photographs and correcting their geometrical distortion; extracting items of line-pattern information from the aerial photographs and classifying the land coverage; and analyzing factors of causing the landslide using an image superimposing process. The papers also mentioned a view that this method may be applied effectively on disasters occurring on ground surface. 11 refs., 8 figs., 2 tabs.

Clearness index in cloudy days estimated with meteorological information by multiple regression analysis; Kisho joho wo riyoshita kaiki bunseki ni yoru dontenbi no seiten shisu no suitei

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Nakagawa, S [Maizuru National College of Technology, Kyoto (Japan); Kenmoku, Y; Sakakibara, T [Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi (Japan); Kawamoto, T [Shizuoka University, Shizuoka (Japan). Faculty of Engineering

1996-10-27

Study is under way for a more accurate solar radiation quantity prediction for the enhancement of solar energy utilization efficiency. Utilizing the technique of roughly estimating the day`s clearness index from forecast weather, the forecast weather (constituted of weather conditions such as `clear,` `cloudy,` etc., and adverbs or adjectives such as `afterward,` `temporary,` and `intermittent`) has been quantified relative to the clearness index. This index is named the `weather index` for the purpose of this article. The error high in rate in the weather index relates to cloudy days, which means a weather index falling in 0.2-0.5. It has also been found that there is a high correlation between the clearness index and the north-south wind direction component. A multiple regression analysis has been carried out, under the circumstances, for the estimation of clearness index from the maximum temperature and the north-south wind direction component. As compared with estimation of the clearness index on the basis only of the weather index, estimation using the weather index and maximum temperature achieves a 3% improvement throughout the year. It has also been learned that estimation by use of the weather index and north-south wind direction component enables a 2% improvement for summer and a 5% or higher improvement for winter. 2 refs., 6 figs., 4 tabs.

Knowledge capital, productivity and competitiveness. Empirical evidence for the G-5 countries; Chishiki shihon no chikuseki to seisansei kokusai kyosoryoku. G5 shokoku ni kansuru jissho bunseki

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Sakurai, N.; Miyazaki, H.

1999-06-01

Technological change is a major driving force for long-run economic growth. New theories on growth have stressed the importance of innovative and adaptive capacity of firms in order to fully reap the benefits of research and development (R and D) within the firms as well as those spilled-over from other firms and abroad. This report empirically investigates the relationship between R&D and productivity as well as that between productivity and industrial competitiveness for the G-5 countries (Japan, the US, (West) Germany, France and the UK). To do so, we have constructed comparable data on R and D capital stock (so-called 'knowledge capital'), the level and growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP), and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) index for 22 manufacturing industries in each G-5 country. The major results are summarized as follows. First, the volume of knowledge capital for Japan is still far smaller than that of the US (40% for total manufacturing in 1995). Second, there is no clear tendency of TFP convergence to the US level for each country after 1980 and its level for Japan is about 70% of the US in 1993. In addition, the TFP gap between Japan and the US has recently widened for high-tech sector. Third, the estimated elasticities of TFP with respect to the R&D stock for manufacturing sector during the mid-1970s and the early 1990s are 0.07 for Japan and 0.21 for the US on average, with deteriorating R and D potency in Japanese manufacturing. For high-technology industries, they are much larger with the estimates of 0.45 for Japan and 0.86 for the US on average, whereas for Japan the R&D performance becomes worse during the last decade. Fourth, we found that international competitiveness in industries depends not only on TFP and exchange rate fluctuations, but also on various non-price factors such as product quality, marketing ability, and product market segmentation. (author)

Characterization of interactions of coal surface with solvent by flow microcalorimetric measurement. 3; Netsuryo sokutei ni yoru sekitan hyomen to yozai tono sogo sayo no hyoka. 3

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Wang, N.; Sasaki, M.; Yoshida, T. [Hokkaido National Industrial Research Institute, Sapporo (Japan); Kotanigawa, T. [Japan International Corporation Agency, Tokyo (Japan)

1996-10-28

An investigation was given on the relationship between methanol adsorbing behavior of reformed coal surface and oxygen containing functional groups in coal. Akabira bituminous coal was air-oxidized or Yallourn brown coal was decarbonated in oil as a reformation treatment. Both of the treated and untreated coals showed an adsorption heat curve of the Langmuir type. The Akabira coal had its oxygen content and the adsorption heat increased as a result of the air oxidizing reformation treatment. The Yallourn coal had its oxygen content and adsorption heat decreased as a result decarbonation reformation treatment. Oxygen containing functional groups act as strong adsorption sites for methanol, and the maximum adsorption amount depends on oxygen content in the coals. Since the coal surface is non-uniform in terms of energy, methanol is adsorbed first into sites with higher molar adsorption heat, and then into lower sites sequentially. Therefore, distribution of the molar adsorption heat can be derived from the relationship between adsorption amount and adsorption heat by changing methanol adsorption amount. The distribution of molar adsorption heat becomes broader when the oxygen content is high, and narrower when low. 2 refs., 2 figs.

Descripci??n del dolor y el tono vagal en mujeres supervivientes de c??ncer de mama y efectos f??sicos de un programa de fisioterapia acu??tica

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Caro Mor??n, Elena

2015-01-01

El diagn??stico precoz, los avances en los tratamientos y la prevenci??n de la recurrencia son factores responsables del aumento de la supervivencia en las pacientes de c??ncer de mama. Estas pacientes sufren numerosas secuelas o trastornos cr??nicos relacionados con la propia enfermedad o derivadas de los tratamientos recibidos que repercuten sobre su calidad de vida. Las mujeres supervivientes de c??ncer de mama (SCM), objeto de nuestro estudio, presentan disfunciones card??a...

Investigation into the analysis method of total ecobalance in chemical industry products. 3; Kagaku kogyo seihin ni okeru total eko balance no bunseki shuho ni kansuru chosa. 3

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1996-03-01

For the purpose of establishing a total life-cycle ecobalance analysis (LCA) method, the paper studied making of a general computer program for chemical industry products. The study has been made on general-purpose plastics (PET/PSP (polystyrene paper)) since fiscal 1993 aiming at making the CO2 emission computing program covering the entire process of production from extraction of raw materials through waste disposal. In fiscal 1995, the following were conducted for enhancement of generalization of the method: expansion of environmental load items and increase in validity of the concept, and expansion of database. Notice was taken of not only CO2 but SOx, NOx and water quality load items. The survey was made on the recycling situation in Japan and abroad and the PET recycling plant , and environmental load item data are collected to expand database. The program was verified by analyzing an example of reusing PET bottle to carpet, and one-step development can be made toward the establishment of the method. Moreover, an analysis was made for the environmental assessment of the related programs abroad, and a tentative original plan can be proposed for the standardization of environmental load analysis and the integrated assessment method. 39 refs., 130 figs., 76 tabs.

Fiscal 1999 survey report. Fiscal 1998 basic survey for promotion of joint implementation, etc. (Analysis of results); 1998 nendo kyodo jisshi nado suishin kiso chosa kekka no bunseki

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2000-03-01

The 40 'Surveys for promotion of joint implementation, etc.' conducted by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) in fiscal 1998 aimed to pick out projects that would positively utilize the flexible measures (three Kyoto mechanisms) for the achievement of greenhouse gas reduction targets defined at COP3 (Third Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). In this paper, concerning these 40 surveys, studies are conducted for reaching conclusions about setting baselines for the future, execution of similar feasibility studies in the future, application of flexible measures, and opinions towards project implementation. The 40 surveys were, concretely speaking, conducted not to work out policies for actualization of given projects but to consider philosophies of project actualization and baseline formation for the future. In this paper, project outlines, environmental impact assessment, and economic assessment (investment assessment) are put in order for each of the surveys, and relations between amounts of global warming gas reduced and project costs, and project profitability, are analyzed for each of the surveys. (NEDO)

Measurement method of a motion of traveling vehicle via three-dimensional image processing system; Sanjigen gazo kaisekiho ni yoru sharyo undo no keisoku to sono bunseki ni tsuite

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Yamada, Y; Matsuura, Y [Osaka Sangyo University, Osaka (Japan)

1997-10-01

Motion of traveling vehicle was taken by VTR-cameras set on the test course, as well as it also was measured by conventional measurement methods using sensors and devices installed in the vehicle. lotion pictures of the VTR were analyzed using three-dimensional image processing system (Peak lotus system). As a result, this system was especially effective for the measurement of traveling traces of the actual vehicle and the results were good agreement with the data obtained by conventional measurement methods. 2 refs., 8 figs.

CALIDAD DE FRUTOS DE MATERIALES COMERCIALES DE PAPAYA ROJA PRODUCIDOS EN YUCATÁN, MÉXICO

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Felipe Santamaría

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La variedad Maradol es la principal papa - ya cultivada en México y uno de los principales cultivos del estado de Yucatán. Presenta algunos inconvenientes, como la susceptibilidad a viro - sis, por lo que se buscan nuevos materiales que puedan superar en rendimiento a Maradol, pero es necesario que presenten características de cali - dad similares. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue evaluar las características de calidad de los fru - tos de nuevos genotipos producidos en Yucatán. Se usaron 6 materiales comerciales (Maradol, Sensation, Intenzza, Siluet, Lenia Plus y Jíbara y 2 híbridos generados por INIFAP (Azteca y MSXJ. Se evaluó el tamaño de los frutos, color de cáscara y pulpa, firmeza de la pulpa y conte - nido de sólidos solubles totales. En el tamaño de frutos, excepto Jíbara que es muy grande (2,900 kg y Siluet que es muy pequeño (1,200 kg, los 6 materiales restantes fueron similares a Maradol. En color de la cás - cara, Intenzza y Siluet presentaron tono similar a Maradol (65 a 67º pero fueron más luminosos. Siluet y Sensation tuvieron mayor contenido de grados Brix que Maradol, pero también menor firmeza de la pulpa. Considerando el tamaño de los frutos, la firmeza de la pulpa, el contenido desólidos solubles totales y el color de la cáscara y pulpa, los genotipos Sensation, Lenia Plus y MSXJ presentan buenas características, por lo que pueden competir en calidad con la variedad Maradol.

Tear production and intraocular pressure in canine eyes with corneal ulceration

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David L. Williams

2017-05-01

Full Text Available This study aimed to evaluate changes in lacrimation and intraocular pressure (IOP in dogs with unilateral corneal ulceration using the Schirmer tear test (STT and rebound (TonoVet® tonometry. IOP and STT values were recorded in both ulcerated and non-ulcerated (control eyes of 100 dogs diagnosed with unilateral corneal ulceration. Dogs presented with other ocular conditions as their primary complaint were excluded from this study. The mean ± standard deviation for STT values in the ulcerated and control eyes were 20.2±4.6 mm/min and 16.7±3.5 mm/min respectively. The mean ± standard deviation for IOP in the ulcerated and control eyes were 11.9±3.1 mmHg and 16.7±2.6 mmHg respectively. STT values were significantly higher (p<0.000001 in the ulcerated eye compared to the control eye while IOP was significantly lower (p<0.0001. There is an increase in lacrimation and a decrease in IOP in canine eyes with corneal ulceration. The higher tear production in ulcerated eyes shows the importance of measuring STT in both eyes in cases of corneal ulceration, since this increased lacrimation may mask an underlying keratoconjunctivitis sicca only evident in the contralateral eye. The lower IOP in ulcerated eyes is likely to relate to mild uveitic change in the ulcerated eye with a concomitant increase in uveoscleral aqueous drainage. While these changes in tear production and IOP in ulcerated eyes are widely recognised in both human and veterinary ophthalmology, it appears that this is the first controlled documented report of these changes in a large number of individuals.

JUANA PAULA MANSO (1819-1875. PRESENCIA FEMENINA INDISCUTIBLE EN LA EDUCACIÓN Y EN LA CULTURA ARGENTINA DEL SIGLO XIX, CON PROYECCIÓN AMERICANA

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Elisabetta Pagliarulo

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Este trabajo de análisis y reflexión sobre la vida, la personalidad y las obras de Juana Paula Manso, ofrece la posibilidad de conocer cronológicamente los hitos más trascendentes de su vida, sus exilios y sus producciones. Para comprender la importancia de los aportes de esta escritora, periodista y docente comprometida, coherente y apasionada del siglo XIX, se analizaron sus obras referidas a la educación, a la defensa de la mujer en cuanto a sus capacidades y derechos. También se tuvieron en cuenta las cartas remitidas a sus amigos y personajes de la época, en especial, a Domingo Faustino Sarmiento y a Mary Mann, estos últimos documentos muestran, con un tono intimista, a la mujer en sus luchas, muchas veces sin frutos. La educación en los Jardines de Infantes y en el nivel Primario constituye el eje de sus estudios y desempeño docente profesional, para ello escribió artículos pedagógicos, en los cuales analiza y hace recomendaciones sobre todos los aspectos referidos a la educación, desde las líneas políticas hasta las consideraciones didácticas y psicológicas para desarrollar la enseñanza sobre bases científicas. La autora demuestra poseer una clara conciencia histórica de su tiempo, por ello, a través de sus obras se pueden establecer las relaciones del contexto histórico, cultural y social, entre Argentina, América y Europa. El metodo se establece desde la historia de educacion.

Study on long-term stability of geochemical environments at deep underground

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Mizuno, Takashi; Iwatsuki, Teruki

2005-01-01

Observation and fluid inclusion analysis of fracture filling calcites in granite at the Tono area were conducted to assess long-term stability of geochemical environment at deep underground. The result of observation using SEM and luminoscope shows that precipitation processes of calcite can be divided into four phases (1 to 4) based on their occurrence. (1) Phase 1: indistinct morphology and includes the wall rock fragments. (2) Phase 2: rhombohedral and hexagonal form. (3) Phase 3: elongate rhombohedral form, growth over the layer of phase 2 calcite. (4) Phase 4: small rhombohedral form crystals growth from surface of phase 3 calcite. On Phase 1 calcite, it seems to be hydrothermal origin related to fracture activation. Previous study shows the correlation between the salinity of fluid from which calcite precipitated and morphology of calcite. According to previous studies, the groundwater from which phase 3 calcite precipitated would be the highest salinity such as seawater. Phase 2 and 4 calcite may be precipitated from groundwater with low salinity. On the other hand, fluid inclusions were recognized in phase 2 and 3 calcite. All inclusions indicated mono-phase (liquid phase). These suggest that phase 2 and 3 calcites were precipitated in low-temperature condition. Result of salinity analysis indicates that two groundwaters having different chemical properties had existed during phase 2 and 3 calcite precipitation. Based on these results, geochemical environment had changed by input of high salinity groundwater during Phase 2 and 3 calcite precipitation. It is required to identify the origin of each groundwater in consideration of historical geology for further understanding of long-term hydrochemical condition. (author)

Carburants de substitution : orientations et recherches françaises Synthetic Fuels: French Orientation and Research

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Guibet J. C.

2006-11-01

Full Text Available Le programme d'études et de recherches entrepris en France, depuis 1981, dans le domaine des carburants de substitution, porte à la fois sur l'examen des techniques d'obtention et sur les modalités d'utilisation de ces produits. Les travaux concernent essentiellement le méthanol, le système acétono-butylique et, pour les moteurs Diesel, les dérivés d'huiles végétales. On prévoit, dans une première phase, l'incorporation de faibles proportions - moins de 10 % - de produits organiques oxygénés dans le supercarburant sans modifier les spécifications du produit ni les conditions de réglage des véhicules. D'autres études sont effectuées sur des mélanges à teneur moyenne ou élevée en méthanol (30, 50 ou 90 % afin d'examiner les meilleures voies possibles pour une substitution plus importante. The research undertaken in France since 1981 in the field of alternative fuels includes both the ways of producing and the ways of using such products. These research projects mainly concern methanol, butanol-acetone system and, for diesel engines, vegetable-oil derivatives. In the first phase, plans are being made to incorporate small proportions (less then 10% of oxygenated organic products in premium gasoline without modifying either the specifications of the product or vehicle tuning conditions. Other research is being done on mixtures with a moderate or high methanol content (30, 50 or 90% so as to examine the best possible methods for substituting larger amounts.

The fuel of the future; El combustible del futuro

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Carino Garay, Ruben I [Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)

2006-07-01

In an effort to reach an economic, ecologic and electrogenic consensus, this time we search to point out an economic model that does not go against the energy changes occurring in nature and which conciliates the eternal technology's ambivalence for being a source of both benefits and adverse effects. Thus, taking advantage of this technology an economic model is established in accordance to the global ecosystem taking into account wastes and consumption: the Constanza Daly proposal. A proposal that does not aim to reduce CO{sub 2} emissions nor to lock them up for a future disposal, but looks for conforming to the nature, unfolding the CO{sub 2} and processing it in artificial sinks at a velocity equal or greater to its generation. Thus, perpetuating its use when controlling the adverse effects. [Spanish] En un esfuerzo por conjugar economia, ecologia y energia, en esta ocasion se busca hacer notar un modelo economico que no vaya en contra de los cambios energeticos que ocurren en la naturaleza, conciliando al mismo tiempo la eterna ambivalencia de la tecnologia, fuente de beneficios y efectos adversos. Asi, echando mano de la tecnologia misma, se fundamenta un modelo economico a tono con el ecosistema global, que toma en cuenta desechos y consumo: La propuesta de Constanza Daly. Una propuesta que, aun con retos por delante, no busca disminuir la emision de CO{sub 2} ni encerrarlo para un desecho futuro, sino busca conformarse a la naturaleza desdoblando el CO{sub 2} y procesandolo en sumideros artificiales a una velocidad igual o mayor a la de generacion; perpetuando asi su uso al controlar los efectos adversos.

Yielding physically-interpretable emulators - A Sparse PCA approach

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Galelli, S.; Alsahaf, A.; Giuliani, M.; Castelletti, A.

2015-12-01

Projection-based techniques, such as Principal Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), are a common approach to surrogate high-fidelity process-based models by lower order dynamic emulators. With POD, the dimensionality reduction is achieved by using observations, or 'snapshots' - generated with the high-fidelity model -, to project the entire set of input and state variables of this model onto a smaller set of basis functions that account for most of the variability in the data. While reduction efficiency and variance control of POD techniques are usually very high, the resulting emulators are structurally highly complex and can hardly be given a physically meaningful interpretation as each basis is a projection of the entire set of inputs and states. In this work, we propose a novel approach based on Sparse Principal Component Analysis (SPCA) that combines the several assets of POD methods with the potential for ex-post interpretation of the emulator structure. SPCA reduces the number of non-zero coefficients in the basis functions by identifying a sparse matrix of coefficients. While the resulting set of basis functions may retain less variance of the snapshots, the presence of a few non-zero coefficients assists in the interpretation of the underlying physical processes. The SPCA approach is tested on the reduction of a 1D hydro-ecological model (DYRESM-CAEDYM) used to describe the main ecological and hydrodynamic processes in Tono Dam, Japan. An experimental comparison against a standard POD approach shows that SPCA achieves the same accuracy in emulating a given output variable - for the same level of dimensionality reduction - while yielding better insights of the main process dynamics.

The fuel of the future; El combustible del futuro

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Carino Garay, Ruben I [Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)

2006-07-01

In an effort to reach an economic, ecologic and electrogenic consensus, this time we search to point out an economic model that does not go against the energy changes occurring in nature and which conciliates the eternal technology's ambivalence for being a source of both benefits and adverse effects. Thus, taking advantage of this technology an economic model is established in accordance to the global ecosystem taking into account wastes and consumption: the Constanza Daly proposal. A proposal that does not aim to reduce CO{sub 2} emissions nor to lock them up for a future disposal, but looks for conforming to the nature, unfolding the CO{sub 2} and processing it in artificial sinks at a velocity equal or greater to its generation. Thus, perpetuating its use when controlling the adverse effects. [Spanish] En un esfuerzo por conjugar economia, ecologia y energia, en esta ocasion se busca hacer notar un modelo economico que no vaya en contra de los cambios energeticos que ocurren en la naturaleza, conciliando al mismo tiempo la eterna ambivalencia de la tecnologia, fuente de beneficios y efectos adversos. Asi, echando mano de la tecnologia misma, se fundamenta un modelo economico a tono con el ecosistema global, que toma en cuenta desechos y consumo: La propuesta de Constanza Daly. Una propuesta que, aun con retos por delante, no busca disminuir la emision de CO{sub 2} ni encerrarlo para un desecho futuro, sino busca conformarse a la naturaleza desdoblando el CO{sub 2} y procesandolo en sumideros artificiales a una velocidad igual o mayor a la de generacion; perpetuando asi su uso al controlar los efectos adversos.

Comparison of sugammadex and neostigmine-atropine on intraocular pressure and postoperative effects.

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Hakimoğlu, Sedat; Tuzcu, Kasım; Davarcı, Işıl; Karcıoğlu, Murat; Ayhan Tuzcu, Esra; Hancı, Volkan; Aydın, Suzan; Kahraman, Hilal; Elbeyli, Ahmet; Turhanoğlu, Selim

2016-02-01

During surgery, changes in intraocular pressure (IOP) can be observed resulting from several factors, such as airway manipulations and drugs used. We aimed to investigate the effects of sugammadex and neostigmine on IOP, hemodynamic parameters, and complications after extubation. Our study comprised 60 patients, aged 18-65 years, with a risk status of the American Society of Anesthesiologists I-II who underwent arthroscopic surgery under general anesthesia. The patients were randomly assigned into two groups. At the end of the surgery, the neuromuscular block was reversed using neostigmine (50 μg/kg) plus atropine (15 μg/kg) in Group 1, and sugammadex (4 mg/kg) in Group 2. Neuromuscular blockade was monitored using acceleromyography and a train-of-four mode of stimulation. IOP was measured before induction and at 30 seconds, 2 minutes, and 10 minutes after extubation. A Tono-Pen XL applanation tonometer was used to measure IOP. This showed that elevation in IOP of patients reversed using sugammadex was similar to that recorded in patients reversed using neostigmine-atropine. When heart rate was compared, there was a significant difference between basal values and those obtained at 30 seconds and 10 minutes after extubation in the neostigmine-atropine group. Extubation time (time from withdrawal of anesthetic gas to extubation) was significantly shorter in the sugammadex group (p = 0.003) than in the neostigmine-atropine group. The postextubation IOP values of the sugammadex group were similar to the neostigmine-atropine group. Extubation time (time from withdrawal of anesthetic gas to extubation) was significantly shorter in the sugammadex group (p = 0.003) than in the neostigmine-atropine group. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Taiwan.

Research on geosphere stability for long-term isolation of radioactive waste. Progress report for fiscal years 2005-2009: H22 report

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Kusano, Tomohiro; Asamori, Koichi; Kurosawa, Hideki; Saito-Kokubu, Yoko; Tanikawa, Shin-ichi; Negi, Tateyuki; Hanamuro, Takahiro; Yasue, Ken-ichi; Yamasaki, Seiko; Yamada, Kunimi; Ishimaru, Tsuneari; Umeda, Koji

2011-01-01

This progress report (H22 Report) documents progress made during JAEA 1st Midterm Plan (FY 2005 - 2009) to provide the scientific base for assessing geosphere stability for long-term isolation of the high-level radioactive waste. For the current 5-year R and D programme, three major goals have been defined as follows: 1) development and systematization of investigation techniques for selecting suitable sites in geosphere stability, 2) development, application and verification of prediction models for evaluating the changes of geological environment in thermal, hydraulic, mechanical and geochemical conditions for a long period of time, and 3) development of new dating techniques for providing information about geologic history and the timing of geologic events. For investigation techniques, an extracting technique of active faults with weak surface expressions by LiDAR, an integrated approach combining geophysical and geochemical methods for detecting crustal magma storage and an estimating method for uplift rates in an inland area using relative heights of fluvial terraces have been made. A numerical simulation code for predicting landform evolution in the next 100,000 years, and incorporating models of geophysical processes directly into probabilistic assessments for renewed volcanism using Bayesian inference (multiple inference model) have been prepared for prediction models. Improvement of AMS system for 14 C dating was conducted in order to precisely determine isotopic compositions. (U-Th)/He and K-Ar dating systems were also installed at Tono Geoscience Center (TGC) for determining the production age of fault gouge and precipitated within open fractures. In this paper, the current status of R and D activities with previous scientific and technological progress is summarized. (author)

Boundary delineation for regional groundwater flow through geographic information system (Contract research)

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Yamakawa, Tadashi; Munakata, Masahiro; Kimura, Hideo; Hyodo, Hiroshi

2007-03-01

Radionuclide migration toward the human environment is to be assessed as the part of long-term safety assessments of geologic disposal of radioactive waste. Geologic processes, which include volcanic activity, hydrothermal activity, seismicity and deformation, bring about hydrogeologic changes in the regional groundwater flow system around a repository site. Groundwater flow systems in Japan have been studied in several sites such as Tono mine, Kamaishi mine and Horonobe area, but methodology of studies in these sites does not have fully developed. This study was conducted to develop methodologies of boundary delineation for regional groundwater flow systems. Geographic Information System, GIS, was applied using available topographic, hydrologic and geologic data for an area of interest. Miyakoji in the Abukuma Mountains was selected as the area, for the reason of its simple geologic setting formed by granitic rocks and topographically gentle hills of drainage basin. Data used in this study cover topographic sheets, digital elevation model, satellite imagery, geologic maps, topographic classification maps, soil distribution maps and landuse maps. Through the GIS techniques using these data, thematic maps on topographic features, surface conditions, land coverage, geology and geologic structure and weathered crust were developed, and these thematic maps were further applied to extract four factors affecting the regional groundwater flows: topographic condition, precipitation recharge, fracture characteristics and potential flows. The present study revealed that, taking the potential groundwater flows and characteristics of fractured zones in the area into consideration, the groundwater flow system in Miyakoji drainage basin should be bounded by the Otakine Mountain and the northern part of Tokoha Drainage Basin. The delineated area is larger than understood before. (author)

De la primera lengua a la traducción literaria: Itinerarios de evaluación y reescritura creativa / From mother tongue teaching to literary translation: Assessing and creative rewriting

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Jorge J. SÁNCHEZ IGLESIAS

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Esta propuesta parte de las particularidades de la formación en Lengua A para Traductores, un ámbito poco definido y normalmente muy alejado de los contenidos literarios. Se plantean dos conjuntos de actividades, vinculados a la evaluación y a la reescritura, de cuya vinculación surgen los conceptos de lectura intencional y desautomatización de la escritura, y que parecen por tanto especialmente adecuadas para fomentar una creatividad en el uso de la lengua que resulta de la mayor importancia para la traducción literaria. A partir de unas primeras experimentaciones con reescritura de textos literarios, se puede concluir que las nociones de tono y estilo están intuitivamente disponibles para los escritores noveles y son por tanto excelentes candidatas para ser operativas en la formación en traducción literaria.  The distinguishing characteristics of First Language training - a vaguely defined area of study which is not usually explored in literary publications - will form the basis of our investigation.  We will consider two sets of activities, both linked to evaluation and rewriting, which will allow us to explore the concepts of intentional reading and deautomisation of the writing process. These notions seem especially useful for encouraging creativity in language use, a highly important skill in literary translation. Based on the results of a few initial experiments involving the rewriting of literary texts, we can conclude that novice writers are intuitively aware of tone and style. These notions could therefore provide an excellent focus for literary translation training. 

Balance del modelo agroexportador en América Latina al comenzar el siglo XXI

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Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles

2006-01-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this work is to offer a panoramic vision of today's moment of regional agriculture, making a revision of some added "saldos". We are interested in opening a debate about the optimist and acritic tone in which is divulged the numbers and put into evidence less difunded, but of great importance to the present and future of the region, aspects. To begin we refer to the general context in which happened the transformations of the growth model in the region and its pretences. Immediately we study the agriculture, focussed in the common contents of national projects, to look again some of its aftermaths. We finish with some reflections about the significance of these changes to the expansion of the capital as system and to the rural population involved.El propósito de este escrito es ofrecer un panorama del momento por el que atraviesa hoy la agricultura regional, revisando algunos de sus saldos agregados. Nos interesa debatir el tono optimista y acrítico con que se divulgan las cifras y poner en evidencia aspectos menos difundidos, pero de suma importancia para el presente y futuro de la región. Para comenzar nos referimos al contexto general en que se suscitan las transformaciones en el modelo de crecimiento de la región y sus pretensiones. Enseguida nos ocupamos de la agricultura, enfocados en el contenido común de los proyectos nacionales, para revisar luego algunas de sus secuelas. Concluimos con algunas reflexiones sobre el significado de estos cambios para la expansión del capital en tanto sistema y para la población rural involucrada.

Does Bridget Jones watch EastEnders or The Love Boat? Cultural and linguistic issues in the translation of chick-lit novels

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Ilaria Parini

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Abstract - Chick lit is a genre comprised of books chiefly written by women for women. These books are mainly characterized by the tone, which is very confidential and personal, and often relies on the use of colloquial and slangy (and occasionally obscene expressions, by the use of humour, and by the numerous references to popular culture. This paper aims at analyzing the strategies used in the Italian translation of one of the best-known examples of the genre, Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, taking two frames of reference. First of all, the analysis will try to identify in the target text the distinctive universal features observed in computer-based corpus translation (Baker 1996, namely explicitation, simplification and normalization. Secondly, it will consider the translation in terms of Venuti’s dichotomy of translation strategies into domestication and foreignization (1995. Riassunto -Il chick lit è un genere letterario costituito principalmente da romanzi scritti perlopiù da autrici donne per un pubblico femminile. I romanzi chick-lit sono caratterizzati dal tono confidenziale e personale, dall’uso di espressioni colloquiali e slang (e occasionalmente volgari, dalla presenza costante di humour e dai numerosi riferimenti alla pop culture contemporanea. Questo saggio intende analizzare le strategie utilizzate nella traduzione italiana di uno degli esempi più rappresentativi del genere, ovvero Bridget Jones’s Diary di Helen Fielding, utilizzando due modelli di riferimento. Innanzitutto, lo studio tenterà di identificare la presenza degli universali traduttivi osservati nei corpus-based translation studies (Baker 1996, ovvero explicitation, simplification e normalization. Successivamente, si analizzerà la traduzione secondo la teoria delle strategie traduttive proposta da Venuti (1995, ovvero domestication e foreignization.

Relation between peak period of microtremor spectral ratio (horizontal and vertical components) and basement depth; Bido no suiheido/jogedo supekutoru hi no peak to kiso shindo tono kankei

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Yamamoto, H; Mizutani, K; Saito, T [Iwate University, Iwate (Japan). Faculty of Engineering

1996-05-01

The peak period of the horizontal/vertical spectral ratio of microtremors was referred to the underground structure for the purpose of finding out if it was possible to estimate the ground structure by use of the peak period of the spectral ratio. The observation was carried in the areas of Morioka City and Hachinohe City using seismographs for measuring east-west, north-south, and up-down motions. As for the relationship between the peak period of the spectral ratio distribution involving 490 observation sites and the known gravity anomalies in the Morioka City area, it was found that the peak period of the spectral ratio tended to be shorter from west toward east while the gravity anomalies were greater from west toward east. Again, as for the relations with the underground geology, the period was longer when the distance to the granite basement was greater, and shorter when smaller. In the Hachinohe City area, relations not only of the first period peak but also of the second period peak to the basement were disclosed, which indicates the possibility that the peak period of the spectral ratio will be used as a means for estimating the basement structure. 2 refs., 8 figs.

Leading research and survey report for fiscal 1999. Survey and research on high-sensitivity passive measurement analysis technology; 1999 nendo kokando passive keisoku bunseki gijutsu no chosa kenkyu hokokusho

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2000-03-01

Effective use of the limited natural resources and preservation of global environments are sought for with the 21st century approaching. In the field of measurement analysis, 21st century type technologies are desired, different from the current ones whose improvement is to be attained through reaching for the limits of sensitivity and resolution. Although the laser device with its performance innovatively advanced has now come to provide light sources for measurement, yet they retain their own flaws of damaging or destroying the object of measurement. Passive measurement techniques need to be developed using natural light or white light as well as laser, which will enable the measurement of the shapes and characteristics of human beings, other animals, and vegetables by use of their radiation, and to determine the kinds and amounts of components of the living environments by use of natural light. Techniques should be developed to measure, in natural light or artificial illumination, shapes and colors, and microscopic substances on solid matters, their temperatures, and reaction processes in factories and laboratories. In this connection, surveys are conducted of technologies for measuring safety, productivity, and environment improving potential. Technologies key to their realization are those involving novel heterodyne interference and light source quality improvement, light amplification, cohering, signal processing, chemistry and mass transfer, establishment of multidimensionality, systematization, etc. (NEDO)

Studies of Scleral Biomechanical Behavior Related to Susceptibility for Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in Experimental Mouse Glaucoma

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Nguyen, Cathy; Cone, Frances E.; Nguyen, Thao D.; Coudrillier, Baptiste; Pease, Mary E.; Steinhart, Matthew R.; Oglesby, Ericka N.; Jefferys, Joan L.; Quigley, Harry A.

2013-01-01

Purpose. To study anatomical changes and mechanical behavior of the sclera in mice with experimental glaucoma by comparing CD1 to B6 mice. Methods. Chronic experimental glaucoma for 6 weeks was produced in 2- to 4-month-old CD1 (43 eyes) and B6 mice (42 eyes) using polystyrene bead injection into the anterior chamber with 126 control CD1 and 128 control B6 eyes. Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements were made with the TonoLab at baseline and after bead injection. Axial length and scleral thickness were measured after sacrifice in the CD1 and B6 animals and compared to length data from 78 eyes of DBA/2J mice. Inflation testing of posterior sclera was conducted, and circumferential and meridional strain components were determined from the displacement response. Results. Experimental glaucoma led to increases in axial length and width by comparison to fellow eyes (6% in CD1 and 10% in B6; all P glaucoma, the remainder of the sclera uniformly thinned in CD1, but thickened in B6. Peripapillary sclera in CD1 controls had significantly greater temporal meridional strain than B6 and had differences in the ratios of meridional to effective circumferential strain from B6 mice. In both CD1 and B6 mice, exposure to chronic IOP elevation resulted in stiffer pressure–strain responses for both the effective circumferential and meridional strains (multivariable regression model, P = 0.01–0.03). Conclusions. Longer eyes, greater scleral strain in some directions at baseline, and generalized scleral thinning after glaucoma were characteristic of CD1 mice that have greater tendency to retinal ganglion cell damage than B6 mice. Increased scleral stiffness after glaucoma exposure in mice mimics findings in monkey and human glaucoma eyes. PMID:23404116

Geological survey by high resolution electrical survey on granite areas

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Sugimoto, Yoshihiro; Yamada, Naoyuki

2002-03-01

As an Integral part of the geological survey in 'The study of the regions ground water flow system' that we are carrying out with Tono Geoscience Center, we proved the relation between the uncontinuation structure such as lineament in the base rock and resistivity structure (resistivity distribution), for the purpose of that confirms the efficacy of the high resolution electrical survey as geological survey, we carried out high resolution electrical survey on granite area. We obtained the following result, by the comparison of resistivity distribution with established geological survey, lineament analysis and investigative drilling. 1. The resistivity structure of this survey area is almost able to classify it into the following four range. 1) the low resistivity range of 50-800 Ωm, 2) The resistivity range like the middle of 200-2000 Ωm, 3) The high resistivity range of 2000 Ωm over, 4) The low resistivity range of depth of the survey line 400-550 section. 2. The low resistivity range of 4) that correspond with the established geological data is not admitted. 3. It was confirmed that resistivity structure almost correspond to geological structure by the comparison with the established data. 4. The small-scale low resistivity area is admitted in the point equivalent to the lineament position of established. 5. We carried out it with the simulation method about the low resistivity range of 4). As a result, it understood that it has the possibility that the narrow ratio low resistivity area is shown as the wide ratio resistivity range in the analysis section. In the survey in this time, it is conceivable that the resistivity distribution with the possibility of the unhomogeneous and uncontinuation structure of the base rock is being shown conspicuously, the efficacy of the high resolution resistivity survey as geological survey on granite was shown. (author)

Blanco sobre blanco : la arquitectura y el cambio cromático

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Jesús Marina Barba

2006-01-01

Full Text Available El color tiene un impacto considerable en la percepción general del paisaje urbano. La luz resalta las superficies, la textura subraya los materiales. Cuando en un paisaje se realiza cualquier intervención, ésta se convierte en atracción visual en relación a su contexto, siendo necesario considerar los factores determinantes de esta nueva relación. El empleo del blanco brillante supone introducir un elemento perceptivo fuerte. Paradójicamente, es el color más agresivo. Los materiales naturales, como la propia naturaleza, tienden a ser complejos en su textura y en sus tonos. El uso generalizado de productos industriales está conduciendo a un empobrecimiento cromático de los paisajes urbanos. El futuro del color blanco pasa por un cambio en su concepción de elemento decorativo hasta convertirlo en fundamento del proyecto, aprovechando sus cualidades de gradación tonal, contraste, expansión espacial y composición de escalas y formas.The colour has a significant impact on the overall perception of an urban environment. Light plays on surfaces, the texture of materials are noticed. Since any object introduced into the environment becomes a visual target in relation to its context, it is necessary to considerer the factors determining that relationship. Brilliant white forms a visual target that attracts the eye. Paradoxically, is the most intrusive colour. Natural materials, like nature itself, tend to be richly textured and subtly coloured. Widely use of industrial products is leading to a chromatic impoverishment on the urbanscape. The future of white is going through a change in its conception as decorative element, until it is turned to project foundation thanks to its qualities of tonal gradation, contrast, spatial expansion and composition of scales and forms.

LA OBRA CINEMATOGRÁFICA COMO REPRESENTACIÓN COLECTIVA DE LAS MEMORIAS POPULARES: EL CASO DE LATINOAMÉRICA EN LOS AÑOS SESENTA

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Silvana Flores

2008-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo desarrollo el uso de la obra cinematográfica en Latinoamérica (durante los años sesenta como instrumento ideológico que nos permite abordar la cuestión de la reivindicación de memorias populares. Inserta en un contexto altamente politizado e influida por las discusiones sobre el colonialismo y la teoría sartreana del compromiso, encontramos en la producción cinematográfica de esta región una voluntad de incitar al espectador a través del arte acerca de la creación de una nueva identidad que englobe al pueblo latinoamericano.Estas obras constituyen documentos, testimonios audiovisuales; pero el historiador que los examinará no será, esta vez, únicamente el estudioso, sino el pueblo mismo. La pretensión de estos films será, entonces, convertirse en portavoces de la memoria: el discurso cinematográfico se convierte en narrador de una identidad. Estas películas, que tendrán un tono militante, tomarán a esas “minorías” como protagonistas esenciales del cambio y como sujetos constructores de representaciones frente a las elaboradas por el discurso hegemónico. Las películas, entonces, no son concebidas como acto individual sino como obra colectiva, asumiendo la cosmovisión de grupos que no se conciben fuera de una comunidad. El cine latinoamericano de los sesenta culminó con la idea de que para la elaboración de un objeto artístico aprobado hay que tomar como referente a los paradigmas exitosos de Hollywood, y entendió que la cultura nacional no es un mero elemento de exhibición destinado a inflar la ambición conquistadora eurocentrista.

Los autores como actores en el teatro experimental español de los años veinte

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Fraga Fernández-Cuevas, María Jesús

2010-06-01

Full Text Available During the attempts for theatrical renewal in the twenties, several playwrights worked also as actors. The Baroja’s acted in the company ‘El Mirlo Blanco’; D. Pío participation was enthusiastic although brief, while his brother Ricardo was better recognized for his work as stage designer. Rivas Cherif participated in numerous performances and his coherence with the new theatre model that he defended was unanimously praised. Eusebio de Gorbea was considered the best actor among the playwrights, although his more appreciated characteristics like tone, gesture and roughness approached him to naturalism. The interpretative work of these authors as components of a group, whose nucleus remained amongst successive renovation attempts, is also recognized by its discipline, renounce to individual success and subordination to scenic treatment.En los ensayos de renovación teatral de los años veinte, varios dramaturgos intervinieron como actores. Los hermanos Baroja actuaron en la compañía ‘El Mirlo Blanco’: la participación de D. Pío fue entusiasta pero breve; de su hermano Ricardo se recuerda con mayor interés su labor de escenógrafo. Las numerosas actuaciones de Rivas Cherif fueron unánimemente valoradas por su coherencia con los presupuestos del nuevo teatro que tanto defendió. Eusebio de Gorbea fue el dramaturgo más reconocido en su labor de actor, si bien sus rasgos más destacados, tono, ademán, rudeza le sitúan cercano al naturalismo. La labor interpretativa de estos autores como componentes de un grupo, cuyo núcleo se mantiene en los sucesivos intentos renovadores, es también alabada por su disciplina, renuncia al lucimiento y supeditación al tratamiento escénico.

Prospective Comparative Analysis of 4 Different Intraocular Pressure Measurement Techniques and Their Effects on Pressure Readings.

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Berk, Thomas A; Yang, Patrick T; Chan, Clara C

2016-10-01

To compare intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement using the Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) without fluorescein, with fluorescein strips, with fluorescein droplets, and IOP measurement with Tono-Pen Avia (TPA). This was a prospective comparative clinical analysis. It was performed in clinical practice. The study population consisted of 40 volunteer patients, 1 eye per patient. All patients who were 18 years and older having routine ophthalmological examination were eligible to participate. Active corneal abrasions and/or ulcers, previous glaucoma surgery, or prostheses interfering with GAT measurement were excluded. GAT IOP was measured first without fluorescein, then with fluorescein strip, then with fluorescein droplet, and finally with the TPA device. The main outcome measure was central corneal IOP. Mean±SD IOP measurements for GAT without fluorescein, with fluorescein strip, with fluorescein droplet, and for TPA groups were 12.65±3.01, 14.70±2.82, 15.78±2.64, and 16.33±3.08 mm Hg, respectively. Repeated-measures analysis of variance corrected with the Greenhouse-Geisser estimate ([Latin Small Letter Open E]=0.732) showed that measuring technique had a significant effect on IOP measurements (F2.20,85.59=34.66, P<0.001). The pairwise post hoc testing showed statistically significant mean differences (P≤0.001) between all techniques except when GAT with fluorescein droplet was compared with TPA (P=0.222). The Bland-Altman analyses showed 95% limits of agreement maximum potential discrepancies in measurement ranging from 5.89 mm Hg in the GAT with fluorescein strip versus droplet compared with 11.83 mm Hg in the GAT with fluorescein strip versus TPA comparison. IOP measurement technique significantly impacted the values obtained. The ophthalmologist should ensure consistent measurement technique to minimize variability when following patients.

Composição florística e fitossociologia do cerrado sentido restrito no município de Água Boa - MT

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Felfili Jeanine Maria

2002-01-01

Full Text Available O estudo foi conduzido no município de Água Boa , no Vale do Araguaia, área de ecótono entre o Cerrado e Amazônia, que apresenta um complexo vegetacional com o predomínio do cerrado. O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a composição florística e a fitossociologia do cerrado sentido restrito na região. Foram alocadas dez parcelas de 20x50m (1000m². Entraram na amostragem todos os indivíduos lenhosos com diâmetro no nível do solo igual ou superior a 5cm. Além da amostragem com identificação in loco das espécies, foram efetuadas incursões de coleta em áreas próximas, para ampliar o levantamento da composição florística. Foram encontradas 34 famílias botânicas, contendo 60 gêneros e 80 espécies. A família Leguminosae apresentou o maior número de espécies (10, seguida por Myrtaceae (7, Vochysiaceae (6 e Malpighiaceae (5. Outras 19 famílias foram representadas por uma única espécie. As espécies com maior Índice de Valor de Importância foram Curatella americana L., Qualea parviflora Mart., Callisthene fasciculata Mart., Mezilaurus crassiramea (Meiss Taub. e Byrsonima crassa Nied. Treze espécies estiveram representadas por um único indivíduo. A densidade foi de 995 indivíduos/ha e a área basal de 7,5 m² /ha. O índice de Shannon encontrado (H' foi de 3,69, evidenciando a alta diversidade da área.

Case history of natural analogue research on sandstone type uranium occurrences, Japan

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Sakamaki, Y.; Kanai, Y.

1991-01-01

Previous fundamental studies on the ore genesis of uranium occurrences chiefly in Cenozoic sandstone formations in Japan, have been re-examined as the case history on natural analogue of radionuclides in high-level radioactive wastes (HLRW). Two principal mode of occurrences have been distinguished among Cenozoic uranium localities in Japan. In the Setouchi (Inland Sea) subregion, hot-spots are found in lacustrine to shallow sea facies of calm environment, corresponding to the first stage of formation of tectonic basins. As observed in Ningyo-toge and Tono area, stratabound ore bodies are generally arranged into paleo-channels. Another type of sporadic uranium indications are found within collapse basins in the 'Green-tuff' subregion, where intense volcanisms and block movements had been taken places throughout Middle miocene age. Well-developed fractures were to be favorable paths for uraniferous groundwater, as well as the suitable site for deposition of uranium. In both cases, the source material of uranium is granitic basement. Under oxidizing environment, uranium anomalies have been occasionally detected in surface- or fracture waters which passing through decomposed granite. In contrast to the behavior of uranium, one of the adequate analogues for mobile nuclides, thorium and REE are relatively immobile even under the same geologic and geochemical circumstances. In ore horizon, where reducing condition has still been kept, geochronological age of tetravalent uranium mineral is in concordance with the age of the host rock. Analysis of structural control shows that the principal factors for uranium concentration are the layout of redox front related to paleo-water tables. 234U/238U disequilibrium method has been proved to be the powerful tool for detecting mobility of uranium in the host rock throughout diagenesis and weathering process. The result of field and laboratory works on this is reported as an example. (author)

Comparison of sugammadex and neostigmine–atropine on intraocular pressure and postoperative effects

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Sedat Hakimoğlu

2016-02-01

Full Text Available During surgery, changes in intraocular pressure (IOP can be observed resulting from several factors, such as airway manipulations and drugs used. We aimed to investigate the effects of sugammadex and neostigmine on IOP, hemodynamic parameters, and complications after extubation. Our study comprised 60 patients, aged 18–65 years, with a risk status of the American Society of Anesthesiologists I–II who underwent arthroscopic surgery under general anesthesia. The patients were randomly assigned into two groups. At the end of the surgery, the neuromuscular block was reversed using neostigmine (50 μg/kg plus atropine (15 μg/kg in Group 1, and sugammadex (4 mg/kg in Group 2. Neuromuscular blockade was monitored using acceleromyography and a train-of-four mode of stimulation. IOP was measured before induction and at 30 seconds, 2 minutes, and 10 minutes after extubation. A Tono-Pen XL applanation tonometer was used to measure IOP. This showed that elevation in IOP of patients reversed using sugammadex was similar to that recorded in patients reversed using neostigmine–atropine. When heart rate was compared, there was a significant difference between basal values and those obtained at 30 seconds and 10 minutes after extubation in the neostigmine–atropine group. Extubation time (time from withdrawal of anesthetic gas to extubation was significantly shorter in the sugammadex group (p = 0.003 than in the neostigmine–atropine group. The postextubation IOP values of the sugammadex group were similar to the neostigmine–atropine group. Extubation time (time from withdrawal of anesthetic gas to extubation was significantly shorter in the sugammadex group (p = 0.003 than in the neostigmine–atropine group.

MANEJO POSTCOSECHA DE ZAPOTE MAMEY (Pouteria sapota (Jacq. H. E. Moore and Stearn Y SU IMPACTO EN LA CALIDAD DE LA FRUTA

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Rafael Gómez-Jaimes

2012-01-01

Full Text Available En México, la mayoría de los árboles de mamey (Pouteria sapota (Jacq. H. E. Moore and Stearn tienen una altura mayor a 10 m, lo que dificulta la operación de cosecha, por lo que es frecuente el daño en los frutos. Asimismo, su conservación en distintos empaques causa deterioro en grado diferente. Cinco técnicas postcosecha de fruto se evaluaron para medir su efecto en la calidad durante el almacenamiento: T1, cosechados sin daño alguno, empacados individualmente en cajas de cartón; T2, lanzados desde 10 m de altura, capturados en costal de yute y empacados a granel en caja de plástico; T3, lanzados desde 10 m de altura a un colchón y empacados a granel en caja de plástico; T4, lanzados desde 4 m de altura a suelo húmedo y empacados a granel en caja de plástico; y T5, lanzados desde 10 m de altura, capturados en costal de yute y empacados en un costal de yute. Los frutos se almacenaron a temperatura ambiente (25 ± 1 °C; su calidad se evaluó a 1, 3, 5, 7 y 9 días después de la cosecha (DDC. El tratamiento T1 comparado con T4 y T5 (7 y 9 DDC registró la mayor firmeza, menor actividad de pectinmetilesterasa y contenido de sólidos solubles totales (°Brix; así como los menores cambios en brillo (L* y croma (C. En ángulo de tono (H se presentaron diferencias a los 9 DDC, donde T1 mostró valores mayores que T5. No hubo diferencias en porcentaje de ácido málico y pérdida de peso entre tratamientos.

Club Americano de Tokio – Japón

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Yendo, -

1976-04-01

Full Text Available The new installations of this complex contain 12,730 m2 divided on two structures: one 10 storeyed main tower with a restaurant for 300 people, 5 banquet halls, conference rooms and offices. The other, lower building is provided with a bowling alley, swimming pool and other recreation facilities for ladies, gentlemen, young people and families. The construction is entirely of reinforced concrete. The massive and impressive looking facade is made up of a combination of fairfaced concrete, with a white granulated finish, and panels of ceramic tiles of the same colour. Inside the building the predominating colour is white, though in some cases combined with striking colours. The entire furniture was made to measure, by means of which it could be better adapted to the particular requirements. The illumination is fluorescent, incandescent or special depending on the various sections.Las nuevas instalaciones de este complejo comprenden 12.730 m2en una torre principal de 10 plantas, con restaurante para 300 personas, cinco salones de banquetes, salas de reuniones y oficinas, y un edificio de recreo, a menor altura, con pista de bolos, piscina y diversas instalaciones para señoras, caballeros, jóvenes y familias. La construcción es en su totalidad de hormigón armado. La fachada, de aspecto macizo y monumental,está constituida por una combinación de hormigón visto, con un acabado granulado blanco, y paneles de azulejo cerámico, del mismo color. En el interior predomina el color blanco, combinado, en algunas zonas, con tonos cálidos. Todo el mobiliario se diseñó e hizo a la medida, consiguiendo de este modo la mayor confortabilidad. La iluminación, según las zonas, es fluorescente, incandescente o especial.

Paisagem Mutante como Elemento de Análise

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Gustavo Sobrinho Dgedge

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Em Moçambique o Currículo Local permite conhecer a realidade próxima do aluno. A formação de professores de Geografia inclui agora a preocupação pelo conhecimento da influência dos fenômenos locais e externos na modificação da paisagem ao redor do aluno. Na Universidade Pedagógica, a formação de professores de Geografia havia-se desligado da realidade, sendo o ensino monótono e muito teórico. A localização da Delegação de Gaza numa área em constante mutação paisagística trouxe outra dinâmica na formação docente, passando a paisagem a ser um objecto de análise, permitindo que o futuro professor apreenda que é necessário romper com a geografia da sala de aulas. O estudante aprende a visualizar que as paisagens são construídas a partir das dinâmicas sociais, não existindo uma sociedade fora da natureza e que os fenômenos são localizados temporal e territorialmente no local onde ocorrem, tendo e recebendo influências de outros lugares e doutros períodos. O contato direto com a paisagem permite a utilização da linguagem cartográfica como metodologia importante para a construção do conhecimento geográfico. Neste trabalho mostra-se como é que a mutação da paisagem é utilizada no processo de ensino e aprendizagem no Curso de Geografia da Universidade Pedagógica, Delegação de Gaza.

Aspectos técnicos da psicoterapia de grupo

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Bernardo Blay Neto

1959-09-01

Full Text Available São estudados os mecanismos psíquicos que se desenvolvem em agrupamentos humanos e a sua utilização para fins terapêuticos, sendo focalizado o fenômeno da interação como o dinamismo básico dessas reações. O autor compara a forma pela qual encara o grupo com as idéias de Bion, Moreno e Sullivan, encarando a hipótese de que os sentimentos de amor e hostilidade se manifestem em função do bom ou do mau funcionamento dos contactos primários que caracterizam a dependência. O autor comenta resultados que obteve usando o psicodrama, mediante o qual estudou reações emocionais de inveja, ódio, agressividade e amor. O autor analisa as técnicas de Slavson e Pratt baseando-se nos dinamismos inerentes ao grupo e refere os estudos de Beukemkamp para a compreensão do fenômeno transferenciai que, no grupo, tem características próprias. As diferenças entre a terapia de grupo e a individual são apontadas, sendo a contra-transferência considerada como elemento construtivo. Pensa o autor que o aspecto dramático vivenciado pelo grupo ou por um dos seus componentes tem alto valor, pois engloba a verbalização, os componentes emocionais e os componentes posturais. O tono emocional vivenciado pelo grupo é mais intenso e opressivo que o que é despertado na terapêutica individual, o que é explicável pela somação de efeitos provocada pela reação circular. Segundo o autor, a Psicoterapia de Grupo e a Psicoterapia Individual não se opõem, mas se completam.

Study on groundwater flow system in a sedimentary rock area. Case study for the Yoro river basin, Chiba Prefecture

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Sakai, Ryutaro; Munakata, Masahiro; Kimura, Hideo

2007-01-01

In the safety assessment for a geological disposal of long-lived radioactive waste such as high-level radioactive waste and TRU waste etc, it is important to estimate radionuclide migration to human society associated with groundwater flow. Groundwater flow systems for many domestic areas including Tono Mine, Kamaishi Mine and Horonobe district have been studied, but deep groundwater flow circumstances, and mixing between deep groundwater and shallow groundwater flow system are not well understood. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has started to investigate a sedimentary rock area in the Yoro river basin, in Chiba Prefecture, where the topographic and geological features are relatively simple for mathematical modeling, and hydraulic data as well as data from river and well water are available. Hydro-chemical conditions of the regional groundwater were discussed based on temperature, chemical compositions, isotopic ratios of hydrogen and oxygen, and the isotopic age of radioactive carbon for water samples collected from wells, rivers and springs in the Yoro river basin. It was found that the groundwater system in this basin consists of types of water: Ca-HCO 3 type water, Na-HCO 3 type water and NaCl type water. The Ca-HCO 3 type water is meteoric water cultivated several thousand years or after, the Na-HCO 3 type water is meteoric water cultivated under cold climates several to twenty thousand years ago. The NaCl type water is fossil brine water formed twenty thousand years ago. It was also observed that the Na-HCO 3 type water upwelled at the surface originates from GL-200m to -400m. This observation indicates that the Na-HCO 3 type water upwelled through the Ca-HCO 3 type water area with the both waters partially mixed. (author)

En tiempos de miseria

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Mario Valencia

2015-12-01

Full Text Available http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-9288.2015v11n2p192 En Tiempos Miseria constituye una propuesta de visual-concreta contemporánea basada en la exploración de la frontera entre artes visuales, literatura y tecnología. En este hipertexto se da un rompimiento estructural del esquema lingüístico tradicional. Por la forma, por el contenido, y por la participación del espectador en la puesta en escena del acontecimiento poiético y por la morfología del texto. Recogiendo la pregunta de Hölderlin “Para qué poetas en tiempos de penuria”, la obra establece un dialogo intertextual y transemiótico con ese cuestionamiento a través de esferas rítmicas y de sentidos expresados en 42 textos diseminados a través de enlaces y vínculos que permiten la multidireccionalidad y la libertad de orden de lectura para el espectador. La propuesta brevemente sintetizada asume un propósito ineludible de abordar, eficazmente, los retos de la actual cibercultura, para mostrar, desde la poesía en una clara filiación con la poética mesoamericana (en términos de temporalidades, ritmos y tonos, dada la estructura de este aparato de poesía, los paisajes del desastre de la actual civilización occidental, hija de la razón instrumental que transformó todas las esferas de lo humano  y que, por lo tanto, obliga a tomar posiciones, en este caso, desde la creación estética critico, sin desechar ni olvidar la génesis originaria de todo quehacer poético.

FUNCTIONS IN A SEDIMENTATION MODEL

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CARLOS D. ACOSTA

2014-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo se dedica a la identificación numérica confiable y eficiente de los parámetros que definen la función de flujo y el coeficiente de difusión en una ecuación diferencial parcial de tipo parabólico fuertemente degenerada que es la base de un modelo matemático para procesos de sedimentación-consolidación. Para esta ecuación, el problema de valor inicial con valores en la frontera (IBVP en el que el flujo es nulo, describe el asentamiento de una suspensión en una columna. Los parámetros para un material dado se estiman con base en repetidas soluciones numéricas del problema directo (IBVP con una variación sistemática de los parámetros del modelo, con el objeto de minimizar sucesivamente un funcional de costo que mide la distancia entre una observación dependiente de tiempo y la correspondiente solución numérica. En este artículo se destacan dos aspectos. El primer aspecto es que en el método propuesto para la solución numérica eficiente y acertada del problema directo, se implementa un esquema explícito monótono bien conocido basado en diferencias finitas que usan tres puntos mejorado por molificación discreta. El esquema molificado utiliza una malla de más puntos pero converge con una condición CFL menos restrictiva, lo cual permite usar pasos temporales más grandes. El segundo aspecto es el exhaustivo análisis de sensibilidad y estabilidad de las funciones definidas por parámetros en el modelo y que juegan los papeles de aproximación inicial y dato observado, respectivamente.

Presunción de inocencia y deontología periodística: el ‘caso Aitana’

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Carlos Maciá-Barber

2012-01-01

Full Text Available El 26 de noviembre de 2009, Aitana, de 3 años, fallecía en Arona (Tenerife. Las causas de su muerte apuntaban, según el informe médico, a la existencia de diversos politraumatismos causados por malos tratos, junto con lesiones vaginales y anales. Diego Pastrana, compañero sentimental de la madre, fue detenido. Explicó ante la Guardia Civil que las heridas eran fruto de un accidente en un parque infantil días antes. Una nota de prensa oficial anunciaba la imputación del joven. Los juicios paralelos mediáticos arrancaron de inmediato. Diego apareció esposado mientras la clase periodística repudiaba los hechos y condenaba al acusado. No faltaron altisonantes declaraciones de repulsa entre las autoridades públicas canarias. Con posterioridad, la autopsia descartó las presuntas –y erróneas– causas del fallecimiento. Diego, víctima de una depresión, fue hospitalizado. Días después, abandonó Canarias. En algún diario, los menos, se realizó examen de conciencia; algunos periodistas se disculparon; poco más. Tanto la perspectiva jurídica como la deontología periodística coinciden al trazar el obligado proceder en la cobertura informativa de esta clase de noticias. Preocupa la facilidad con que un reportero puede sesgar la realidad. Este estudio de caso en diarios españoles permite detectar posibles y probables fallas informativas desde múltiples perspectivas: uso impropio de los géneros periodísticos, insuficiente contraste de las fuentes informativas, estilo impreciso, tono y titulación sensacionalistas, disfunciones en la estructura del mensaje y empleo inadecuado de las imágenes.

Elementos bibliográficos en el breviario de Festo

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Isabel MORENO FERRERO

2010-02-01

Full Text Available A juicio de alguno de los estudiosos que en la actualidad han prestado gran interés a los textos de la época, el Breviario de Festo presenta respecto a los Césares de Aurelio Víctor, el Breviario de Eutropio y el Epitome de Caesaribus la singularidad de que su materia no parte de la misma disposición biográfica evidente en ellos 1. En un reciente trabajo dedicado a este breve texto del s. iv procurábamos poner de relieve la estructura de la obra y las distintas particularidades que definen sus diferentes partes apuntando ciertos elementos que, en contra de las apariencias, dejaban traslucir un claro fondo biográfico dentro de una organización general a primera vista muy alejada de tales intereses. Nuestra pretensión al aproximarnos de nuevo a tan original texto, de nulo valor estilístico pero muy atractivo para la historiografía actual, radica en procurar recoger y subrayar esa serie de notas que, tanto desde el punto de vista estructural como calificando directamente a los personajes, conforman ese tono biográfico que, como decimos, se descubre en la obra. Lo cierto es que la concepción individualista de la historiografía latina, agudizada por las circunstancias históricas de la época imperial y el propio carácter del libro —en un epítome es impensable no sólo ya el estudio de cualquier proceso histórico sino el comentario razonado de causas o consecuencias de cualquier acontecimiento—, eran motivos suficientes para hacer derivar el proyecto inicial de Festo alejándolo de la concepción general que debería haber determinado el carácter de la narración.

Report on a survey in fiscal 1999. Analysis of materials related to IEA Greenhouse Gas R and D Program (IEA/GHG); 1999 nendo EIA/GHG kanren shiryo bunseki chosa hokokusho

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2000-03-01

Materials related to IEA Greenhouse Gas Rand D Program (IEA/GHG) were analyzed. The Sleipner carbon dioxide underground storage workshop is acting to narrow themes for understanding the technologies, observation methods, and research activities. The IEA/GHG has verified the known facts about ocean storage of carbon dioxide, and discussed the important development targets. Researches were made on improving methane recovery efficiency and the possibility of sealing carbon dioxide by injecting carbon dioxide in order to improve recovery of carbon bed methane. The IEA/GHG has developed a methodology for complete fuel cycles of LNG, and evaluated cost and benefit of reducing greenhouse effect gas emission. A process combining electric power generation, carbon dioxide absorption and hot heat energy utilization can reduce emission of carbon dioxide into atmosphere at relatively low cost and low energy loss. The paper also describes reduction of greenhouse effect gas emitted from cement factories, petroleum refining and petro-chemical industries, and offshore petroleum and gas facilities. It also describes influence of forestry on carbon absorption and timber markets. Case studies have discussed effects of modifying power generation plants. (NEDO)

Fiscal 2000 achievement report on the analysis of factors contributing to the development of venture firms in the U.S. and Europe in the domain of energy technology, and survey of the actualities of venture firms in the Asian region (China) and the feasibility of their coordination with Japan; 2000 nendo energy gijutsu bun'ya ni okeru venture kigyo no hatten yoin bunseki oyobi Asia chiiki (Chugoku) ni okeru venture kigyo no jittai to Nippon tono renkei no kanosei ni kansuru chosa

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2001-03-01

In search of measures to take for raising, developing and integrating venture firms, studies are made about the process and factors of growth after the corporatization of venture firms in the U.S. and Europe, and then about the mechanism of industrial integration in newly-arising high technology- and novel industry-intensive areas and the actualities of strategic clustering. In China, studies are made about feasibility of coordination with Japan. Activities are conducted in the four domains of (1) the analysis of development and growth factors after launching a venture firm in the U.S., (2) analysis of factors contributing to the development of industrial integration in newly-arising high-technology areas, (3) actualities of assistance to ventures in Europe, and (4) the survey of venture trends in China. In domain (4), venture firm creating, raising, and assisting conditions are studied. Also studied are the actual state of venture firm creating, raising, and assisting, and some cases of venture firm creation and raising. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1998 development report on the high-accuracy quantitative analysis technique of catalyst surfaces by electron spectroscopy; 1998 nendo denshi bunkoho ni yoru shokubai hyomen koseido teiryo bunseki gijutsu no kaihatsu

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1999-03-01

This project aims at development of the high-accuracy quantitative analysis technique by electron spectroscopy for surface analysis of catalysts and semiconductors. Since conventional analysis technique using an energy-fixed X-ray excitation source is inadequate to obtain satisfactory surface sensitivity and quantitative accuracy for catalysts, for development of the titled technique, this project makes experiment using energy-variable synchrotron radiation to modify the parameter on motion of low-speed electrons in solids which is obtained by Monte Carlo calculation. For establishment of the high-accuracy quantitative analysis technique of surface compositions of materials such as catalyst of which performance is dominated by utmost surface, the project studies the attenuation length of electrons in solids by electron spectroscopy using soft X-rays from synchrotron radiation. In this fiscal year, the project established the equipment and technique for high-accuracy quantitative analysis of the thickness and electron attenuation length of silicon oxide films on silicon wafers by electron spectroscopy. (NEDO)

Relation between interlaminar fracture toughness and pressure condition in autoclave molding process of GFRP composite laminates; GFRP sekisoban no autoclave seikei ni okeru atsuryoku joken to sokan hakai jinseichi tono kankei

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Jiang, J. [Osaka City University, Osaka (Japan); Motogi, S.; Fukuda, T. [Osaka City University, Osaka (Japan). Faculty of Engineering

1998-06-15

Relation between fracture toughness and pressure condition in autoclave molding of GF composite laminates is investigated. Glass/epoxy prepregs are molded under different curing pressures, and UD laminates of [O{sub 8}]T and [O{sub 16}]T are fabricated. The results of the double cantilever beam (DCB) test show that the curing pressure has certain influences on the interlaminar fracture toughness via the change in morphology of matrix resin and fibers between laminae, and via the change in interfacial strength of fiber and matrix. It is also found that the fiber/matrix interfacial strength increases as the curing pressure increases by SEM photographs of the fracture surface in GF UD laminates. 13 refs., 12 figs.

Research on the general analytical method of fossil fuel cycle from a viewpoint of the global environment. 3; Chikyu kankyo kara mita sogoteki kaseki nenryo cycle bunseki hyoka shuho no chosa. 3

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1996-03-01

The general analysis/assessment method of a fossil fuel cycle was studied. Seven kinds of power generation plants such as LNG cycle and coal cycle ones, and four kinds of transport and treatment systems of recovered CO2 such as ocean and underground systems were studied as case studies on life cycle analysis. As data necessary for life cycle analysis, the database was constructed which stores the facilities and operational energy required for a total energy system from mining of fossil fuel to treatment of recovered CO2, and the quantity of environmental waste such as CO2 emission. As a result, the decrease rate of energy balance defined as ratio of input energy to power plant output was estimated to be 14-43% and 20-60% in LNG cycle and coal cycle, respectively. Even if the recovery rate of CO2 in power plants reached 80-90%, reduction of total CO2 emission was limited to only 20-40% because of CO2 emission during mining, liquefaction and transport of fuel. 168 refs., 48 figs., 102 tabs.

Output characteristic of photovoltaic module on different installing conditions. Comparison with calculated value and measured value; Secchi joken no kotonaru taiyo denchi module no shutsuryoku tokusei. Suchi kaiseki to jissokuchi tono hikaku

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Sasaki, T.; Morita, Y.; Iwawaki, H.; Fujisawa, T.; Tani, T. [Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)

1997-11-25

The paper studied output characteristics of photovoltaic modules different in installation conditions on the basis of the energy balance state. In the study, an energy balance equation was constructed for insolation intensity, heat losses from PV surface/back, and output, in order to calculate cell temperatures in each installation condition. A comparative study was made between calculated results and measured data obtained on the top of the school building. The results indicated the following: The thickness of thermal boundary layer became approximately 27mm at insolation intensity of 800 W/m{sup 2}, ambient air temperature of 25degC, and wind velocity of 0.5m/s. When widening air gap from 20mm to 40mm, the cell temperature decreased 4degC, and the output increased 1.6%. In the case of installing photovoltaic modules on the roof considering the relation between the air gap in the heat balance state and the thickness of thermal boundary layer, heat from PV back was released outside the air gap if widening the air gap to more than 30-40mm. The type with a heat insulating material on the panel back decreased in output from other types. 5 refs., 7 figs., 4 tabs.

The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (Tentative name) Project. A program on survey and research performed from earth surface

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2001-03-01

The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory (Tentative name) Project under planning at Horonobe-machi by the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC) is a research facility on deep underground shown in the Long-term program on research, development and application of nuclear energy (June, 1994)' (LPNE), where some researches on the deep underground targeted at sedimentary rocks are carried out. The plan on The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory performed at Horonobe-machi' is an about 20 years plan ranging from beginning to finishing of its survey and research, which is carried out by three steps such as 'Survey and research performed from earth surface', 'Survey and research performed under excavation of road', and Survey and research performed by using the road'. The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory is one of research facilities on deep underground shown its importance in LPNE, and carries out some researches on the deep underground at a target of the sedimentary rocks. And also The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory confirms some technical reliability and support on stratum disposal shown in the 'Technical reliability on stratum disposal of the high level radioactive wastes. The Second Progress Report of R and D on geological disposal' summarized on November, 1999 by JNC through actual tests and researches at the deep stratum. The obtained results are intended to reflect to disposal business of The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory and safety regulation and so on performed by the government, together with results of stratum science research, at the Tono Geoscience Center, of geological disposal R and D at the Tokai Works, or of international collaborations. For R and D at the The Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory after 2000, following subjects are shown: 1) Survey technique on long-term stability of geological environment, 2) Survey technique on geological environment, 3) Engineering technique on engineered barrier and

Guías de viaje 2.0: léxico y metadiscurso

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Giovanna Mapelli

2016-04-01

Full Text Available La guía de viaje se ha ido configurando como un género textual propio del ámbito del turismo, bien codificado y fácilmente reconocible (Baider et al., 2004; Antelmi et al., 2007, y caracterizado por un tono regulativo y un estilo objetivo e impersonal. Sin embargo, en los últimos años el género se ha reconfigurado, debido al desarrollo de la tecnología digital, que ha dado lugar al llamado Turismo 2.0. Por esta razón, se han producido cambios significativos también en las pautas textuales (Calvi y Mapelli, 2011; Sanmartín Sáez, 2012 y en la relevancia cognoscitiva de las informaciones que se transmiten (Yus Ramos, 2010. Asimismo, han nacido nuevas formas de guías en las que el usuario es también emisor de la comunicación turística dirigida a otros viajeros. Esta “recontextualización” (Linell, 1998 ha originado nuevos géneros “fronterizos” en los que se rompen los esquemas tradicionales: se mezclan rasgos preexistentes en nuevas combinaciones (Calvi, 2010, los miembros de la comunidad de viajeros cooperan entre ellos, y los contenidos se disuelven en microunidades informativas. En este trabajo, se pretende estudiar, cuantitativa y cualitativamente, el léxico y los aspectos interpersonales del metadiscurso (Hyland, 2005 en un corpus heterogéneo y representativo (Biber et al., 1998 de las diferentes tipologías de guía 2.0. Se comparará este nuevo formato con las guías tradicionales (Mapelli y Piccioni, 2011 y con otros materiales informativos de tipo promocional, con el objetivo de perfilar su identidad genérica. El corpus está formado por medio millón palabras y para su análisis se recurrirá al programa AntConc 3.2.4 (Anthony, 2014.

El tratamiento informativo de las elecciones 2015 en la Argentina

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Esteban Andrés Zunino

2018-01-01

Full Text Available [es] El objetivo general de este trabajo consiste en analizar el tratamiento mediático de los diarios nacionales, Clarín y La Nación, y los de la Provincia de Mendoza, Los Andes y UNO, sobre las elecciones presidenciales de 2015 en la Argentina. Para ello, se sometieron a análisis de contenido las piezas periodísticas referidas al caso publicadas por los cuatro diarios entre el 27 de septiembre y el 22 de noviembre de 2015. Es decir, desde un mes antes de la primera vuelta y hasta el mismo día de la segunda. En términos específicos se pretende establecer: 1 cuál fue la relevancia del asunto en las coberturas; y 2 cuál fue el tono valorativo del tratamiento mediático. En este trabajo, que se sustenta conceptualmente en la Teoría de la Agenda Setting y en la Teoría de la Valoración, se utilizó un índice de importancia, para medir la relevancia de las piezas informativas, y un índice de valoración, para estimar la valencia de las notas. [en] The overall objective of this paper is to analyze the media treatment of the 2015 presidential elections in Argentina made by national newspapers Clarin and La Nación and local newspapers Los Andes and UNO. According to the main objective, it was developed a content analysis of all published news between September 27 and November 22, 2015.That is, a month before the first round and until the day second. In specific terms it wishes to establish: 1 what was the relevance of the issue; and 2 what it was the valence of media coverage. In this work, which is based conceptually on Agenda Setting and Appraisal, an index of importance was used to measure the relevance of news items, and an assessment index was implemented to estimate the valence.

Guerra y guerra. La modernidad apocalíptica de Thomas Müntzer a León Tolstói

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Bayón, Fernando

2010-10-01

Full Text Available This article discusses the philosophical significance of Leo Tolstoy for european modernity, in dialogue with a number of writers and authors that provide an alternative way of thinking confronted to the hegemonic ideas on how the modern conscioussnes was born. The authors addressed here cover a large time span, ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: Thomas Müntzer, Jean-Paul and Carlo Michelstaedter. The hypothesis of this essay argues that european Modernity was strongly influenced by new forms of religious experience that helped to extend across the continent a rupturistic sense of consummation of historical time. The primary aim of this paper is to show the role that certain apocalyptic tone played in Tolstoi’s late work, a tone highly syntomatic of the deep crisis experienced in the religious-political sphere at the beginnig of the twentieth century.

Este artículo analiza cuál es el puesto de León Tolstói en la Modernidad a través de un diálogo con una serie de autores que representan una alternativa al discurso hegemónico en torno a la constitución de la conciencia moderna. Los autores elegidos son representativos de un gran arco temporal que va del siglo XVI hasta el XX: Thomas Müntzer, Jean Paul y Carlo Michelstaedter. La hipótesis del artículo defiende que la Modernidad política quedó fuertemente marcada por formas inéditas de experiencia religiosa que ayudaron a extender por todo el continente una nueva idea de la consumación del tiempo histórico. El argumento principal de este ensayo se dirige a demostrar que la obra de Tolstói participa de un cierto tono apocalíptico que resulta muy sintomático de las fracturas políticas de la modernidad así como de las crisis de la conciencia histórica.

Reseña Libro: Malditas. Una estirpe transfeminista

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Maria Medina-Vicent

2017-06-01

Full Text Available Autora: Itziar Ziga Tafalla: Editorial Txalaparta, 2014   La autora de Devenir Perra (Melusina, 2009, Un zulo propio (Melusina, 2009 y Sexual Herria (Txalaparta, 2011 vuelve a agitar nuestras conciencias con su última obra titulada Malditas. Una estirpe transfeminista (2014. De nuevo, Itziar Ziga nos sorprende con su tono irreverente y su escritura directa. En esta ocasión, la autora recupera las biografías de ocho mujeres que aunque fueron claves en el desarrollo del movimiento feminista, han sido generalmente olvidadas e incluso minusvaloradas dentro de las propias filas del movimiento por la igualdad. De este modo, Ziga nos introduce en las perspectivas de las minorías, las obreras, las lesbianas, las negras, las chicanas, las putas, las transexuales… todos aquellos grupos que aún luchan por derrocar la noción dominante del sujeto del feminismo, así como ampliar su sentido. A través de su obra, así como de su trayectoria y comprometido activismo, Ziga pone en jaque al “Feminismo del Gran Poder”, como ella misma denomina. Sus palabras nos recuerdan que la lucha feminista no ha sido homogénea, sino que ha estado protagonizada a lo largo de las décadas por mujeres diversas, por grupos dispares que no se corresponden con el modelo de mujer blanca, occidental y heterosexual que parece ostentar el monopolio del discurso feminista en nuestra sociedad. En este sentido y con el objetivo de ampliar dicha noción, la selección de las biografías que aparecen en la obra se basa, según Ziga, en un aspecto común que une a todas las mujeres estudiadas, esto es, el estigma y la rebeldía: “todas fueron, son y serán mujeres de acción a las que les persigue cierto malditismo y que nunca trataron de erigirse como líderes”.

Ocular hypertension after pediatric cataract surgery: baseline characteristics and first-year report.

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Haotian Lin

Full Text Available Monitoring intraocular pressure (IOP is essential for pediatric cataract treatment but always difficult due to lack of cooperation in young children. We present the baseline characteristics and the first-year results of a long-term prospective cohort study, which are aimed to determine the relationship of the incidence of ocular hypertension (OH in children after cataract surgery during the first-year period and the risk of developing late-onset glaucoma. Children were included with the following criteria: they were ≤10 years old and scheduled to undergo cataract surgery with/without intraocular lens implantation; they were compliant with our follow-up protocol, which included monitoring IOP using a Tono-Pen under sedation or anesthesia. Incidence of OH, peak OH value, OH onset time and OH duration within a 12-month period following surgery were measured. In brief, 206 patients (379 eyes were included and OH developed in 66 of 379 (17.4% eyes. The mean follow-up period was 14.0±3.2 months (median, 12 months; range, 10-16 months. Moreover, 33 of 196 (16.8% aphakic eyes and 33 of 183 (18.0% IOL eyes were diagnosed with OH. The peak OH onset times were at 1-week (34/66, 51.5% and 1-month (14/66, 21.2% appointments postsurgery. The peak IOP value in the OH eyes was 29.9±7.5 mmHg (median, 29 mmHg; range, 21-48 mmHg. The duration of OH was 30.9±31.2 days (median, 30 days; range, 3-150 days. OH recurred in 13 eyes with a history of OH diagnosed within 1 month postsurgery (13/54, 24.1%, which needed temporary or long term use of antiglaucoma medications. In conclusion, the incidence of OH in children after cataract surgery was 17.4% during the first-year period. Children who have suffered elevated IOP in the first year after cataract surgery should be followed closely to determine if there is an increased risk of developing late-onset glaucoma.

Síntesis de la valoración del recién nacido con anomalías de los genitales externos.

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Hernando Forero Caballero

2001-08-01

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Los niños con ambigüedad sexual requieren un diagnóstico, una orientación y tratamiento adecuados en edad temprana. Es importante lograr un diagnóstico definitivo, establecer un plan de tratamiento apropiado, informar sobre el pronóstico participativo y comunicar prudentemente los riesgos precisos de las complicaciones.

En algunos casos es conveniente conformar un equipo de especialistas para resolver estas conductas de manera oportuna y eficiente. Al pediatra le corresponde la evaluación del diagnóstico, la coordinación del equipo de especialistas, ayudar a la familia para entender las condiciones médicas del niño y mantener una comunicación amplia entre la familia y los miembros del equipo de orientación. En la sala de nacimiento no es conveniente asignarle un género al niño que ha nacido con genitales ambiguos; debe referirse como a “su bebé”.

A los padres se les debe demostrar el defecto y explicarles que en el feto las estructuras primordiales del sexo son las mismas y que la evolución de la diferencia sexual puede ser normal o existir desarrollo incompleto o exagerado de los genitales externos, los cuales son posibles de corregir. Animar a los padres para que no se le dé nombre, ni se registre el bebé hasta que se defina el sexo de crianza. Cada niño requiere una atención individual, especialmente un cuidadoso examen físico, estudios de laboratorio y prodigarle sentimientos paternos. El tono emocional de los profesionales de la salud para transmitir esta información puede conducir a una influencia valiosa sobre el concepto de los padres en relación con el desarrollo normal de los genitales. Por tanto es indispensable una atmósfera positiva para principiar las relaciones de los padres con su niño...

Long-term results of Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation in Egyptian population.

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Elhefney, Eman; Mokbel, Tharwat; Abou Samra, Waleed; Kishk, Hanem; Mohsen, Tarek; El-Kannishy, Amr

2018-01-01

To evaluate the long-term results and complications of Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV) implantation in a cohort of Egyptian patients. A retrospective study of 124 eyes of 99 patients with refractory glaucoma who underwent AGV implantation and had a minimum follow-up of 5y was performed. All patients underwent complete ophthalmic examination and intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement before surgery and at 1d, weekly for the 1 st month, 3, 6mo, and 1y after surgery and yearly afterward for 5y. IOP was measured by Goldmann applanation tonometry and/or Tono-Pen. Complications and the number of anti-glaucoma medications needed were recorded. Success was defined as IOP less than 21 mm Hg with or without anti-glaucoma medication and without additional glaucoma surgery. Mean age was 23.1±19.9y. All eyes had at least one prior glaucoma surgery. IOP was reduced from a mean of 37.2±6.8 to 19.2±5.2 mm Hg after 5y follow-up with a reduced number of medications from 2.64±0.59 to 1.81±0.4. Complete and qualified success rates were 31.5% and 46.0% respectively at the end of follow-up. The most common complications were encapsulated cyst formation in 51 eyes (41.1%), complicated cataract in 9 eyes (7.25%), recessed tube in 8 eyes (6.45%), tube exposure in 6 eyes (4.8%) and corneal touch in 6 eyes (4.8%). Other complications included extruded AGV, endophthalmitis and persistent hypotony. Each of them was recorded in only 2 eyes (1.6%). Although refractory glaucoma is a difficult problem to manage, AGV is effective and relatively safe procedure in treating refractory glaucoma in Egyptian patients with long-term follow-up. Encapsulated cyst formation was the most common complication, which limits successful IOP control after AGV implantation. However, effective complications management can improve the rate of success.

Assessing the People's Diplomacy and its impacts on the US-Japan

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Tao Peng

2009-11-01

Full Text Available Durante años, en lo que respecta a la guerra fría de Asia oriental y la política exterior china, los estudiosos se han centrado más en la confrontación entre China y los EE.UU. o en las difíciles relaciones chino-soviéticas, pero ignoraron la política de China hacia Japón. En realidad, de forma distinta a línea dura hacia los Estados Unidos, la política China hacia Japón durante la guerra fría fue en gran parte flexible y suave, que se muestra normalmente en su Diplomacia Popular basado en contactos no-gubernamentales. Este trabajo no sólo analiza los orígenes y desarrollo de este nuevo enfoque diplomático, pero también explora su impacto en Japón y en la alianza de seguridad Estados Unidos-Japón. Según fuentes chinas, americanas, japonesas y de los documentos disponibles recientemente, se argumenta que la Diplomacia Popular, de tono suave y una gran flexibilidad, de hecho, minaba la alianza de Estados Unidos y Japón durante la guerra fría.__________ABSTRACT:For years, in regard to the East Asia cold war and the Chinese foreign policy, scholars have focused more on the Sino-American confrontation or tough Sino-Soviet relations but ignored China's policy toward Japan. Actually, different from its tough policy toward the United States, the Chinese Japan policy during the cold war was largely flexible and soft, which was typically shown in its People's Diplomacy with emphasis on non-governmental contacts. This paper not only discusses the origins and development of this new diplomatic approach but also explores its impacts on Japan and the US-Japan security alliance. Based on Chinese, American, and Japanese sources recently available, it argues that the People's Diplomacy, with its soft tone and great flexibility, effectively undermined the US-Japan cold war security alliance.

The Effect of a Diving Mask on Intraocular Pressure in a Healthy Population

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Catherina Josephine Goenadi

2016-06-01

Full Text Available Purpose: Swimming goggles increase the intraocular pressure (IOP via the periorbital frame pressure and suction effect. In comparison, diving masks have a larger frame rim and incorporate the nose. The exact effect(s of diving masks on IOP is unknown. This study evaluates the influence of diving masks on IOP in normal, healthy subjects. Methods: Tonometry was performed in both eyes of all subjects with an AVIA®Tono-Pen by a single investigator. Measurements were taken at baseline without the diving mask and with the subjects wearing a small-volume, double-window diving mask, but with the mask lenses removed. Two IOP readings in each eye were measured, and an additional reading was measured if the difference between the initial 2 was ≥2 mm Hg. Central corneal thickness (CCT was also measured in each eye, using a contact pachymeter (OcuScan®Alcon. Results: Forty eyes of 20 healthy volunteers (age 29.7 ± 9.3 years; range 21–52 were included. The mean CCT was 544.4 ± 43.5 µm. The mean IOP before the diving mask was worn had been 17.23 ± 2.18 mm Hg (n = 40. The IOP decreased by 0.43 mm Hg (p < 0.05 to 16.80 ± 2.57 mm Hg after the diving mask had been put on. There was no correlation between IOP change and age (r = 0.143, p = 0.337, gender (r = –0.174, p = 0.283 or CCT (r = –0.123, p = 0.445. Conclusion: There was no increase in IOP after the diving mask had been worn. A small but statistically significant decrease in IOP was observed. This study demonstrates that unlike swimming goggles, the strap tension and frame pressure on the periorbital tissue from a diving mask does not increase IOP. Diving masks may be a suitable alternative to swimming goggles for patients with advanced glaucoma or glaucoma filtration surgery.

Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory project. Rock mechanical investigations annual report for fiscal year 2013

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Sato, Toshinori; Sanada, Hiroyuki; Tanno, Takeo

2015-02-01

In order to establish the scientific and technical basis for geological disposal of technology, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) is pursuing the geoscientific research project namely the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) in the crystalline rock environment at Tono Geoscience Center (TGC). In the MIU Project, geoscientific research is being carried out in three overlapping phases; Surface-based Investigation Phase (Phase I: FY1996 - 2004), Construction Phase (Phase II: FY2004- in progress) and Operation Phase (Phase III: FY2010- in progress). In the rock mechanical investigations at the Phase II, the research aims at “Characterization of geological environment in the Excavation Disturbed Zone (EDZ)” from the viewpoint of safety assessment. For the research, the specific information of the EDZ such as (1) size and structures, (2) petrophysical/geomechanical properties, and (3) stress state are required. The research also aims at “Characterization of geomechanical stability around tunnel” from the viewpoint of design and construction of underground facilities. For the research, the specific information such as (4) local stress regime, (5) spatial variability of petrophysical/geomechanical properties of rocks, and (6) distribution of discontinuities intersecting underground tunnels are required. The measurement system for rock mass behavior has been manufactured and set for groundwater recovery experiment in the Phase III. This report presents the results of following rock mechanical investigations conducted in FY 2013. In-situ stress measurements using Compact Conical-ended Borehole Overcoring Technique were performed at the - 500m stage. Measurement system for rock mass displacement using optical fiber was installed at the - 500m stage as part of the groundwater recovery experiment. Study on the modeling based on equivalent continuum model was continued. Phenomenological study and theoretical study on long-term behavior of crystalline rock were

Abdomen y corazón. ¿El primer paso del síndrome cardiorrenal?

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Carlos Ruben Lopez P.

2017-01-01

Full Text Available A pesar de los grandes avances en la cardiología en el siglo XX y XXI, la insuficiencia cardiaca sigue suponiendo la principal causa de hospitalización en las personas ancianas y presentando un pronóstico ominoso. Además, a pesar de los múltiples estudios sobre nuevas dianas farmacológicas, apenas hemos avanzado en el campo del tratamiento, tal vez porque aún existen lagunas en su fisiopatología. No debemos olvidar que la insuficiencia cardiaca es un compendio de signos y síntomas que engloban múltiples órganos y sistemas.  Mucho se está investigando sobre la relación entre riñón y corazón en forma de síndrome cardiorrenal.  Algo cada vez más en boga es el papel del abdomen en la disfunción orgánica de la insuficiencia cardiaca. En ese sentido, el sistema venoso contiene el 70% del volumen sanguíneo, siendo almacenado en su mayor parte dentro de las vísceras abdominales. Un aumento del tono simpático supone aumento intenso del retorno venoso tan importante como para  aumentar las presiones de llenado y justificar una descompensación cardiaca. La congestión sistémica determina un aumento en la presión intraabdominal que está correlacionada con la disfunción renal en la insuficiencia cardiaca avanzada. La hipoperfusión tisular intestinal supone microtraslocación bacteriana promoviendo el status proinflamatorio típico de este síndrome. La visión holística e integrada de la insuficiencia cardiaca puede suponer un avance tanto en la estratificación del riesgo como en las estrategias terapéuticas. Grandes pasos se están dando en este sentido con estudios sobre la ultrafiltración, paracentesis, diálisis peritoneal, suero hipertónico o fármacos adsorbentes del sodio.

Factores de riesgo asociados a la demencia degenerativa en pacientes geriátricos

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Alejandro Rodríguez Constantín

2003-04-01

Full Text Available Se realizó un estudio analítico de tipo caso-control, para determinar factores de riesgo asociados a la aparición de demencia degenerativa en pacientes geriátricos pertenecientes al Consejo Popular "Los Maceo", del Policlínico Docente "Carlos J. Finlay", de la ciudad de Santiago de Cuba, desde septiembre a diciembre del año 2000. La muestra se constituyó con 22 casos identificados previamente como dementes degenerativos por el Equipo Multidisciplinario Gerontológico y 66 controles. Se aplicó una encuesta y se realizó el análisis de los resultados obtenidos. Se calcularon los odds radio (OR correspondientes a cada variable. El bajo nivel de escolaridad (OR=3,99, y el antecedente patológico familiar de demencia (OR=3,01 fueron identificados como factores de riesgo. No presentaron asociación causal las variables sexo (OR=1,46; modificaciones intensas del tono emocional (OR=1 y cambio brusco repetitivo del entorno habitacional (OR=1. La ejercitación de la capacidad intelectual después de los 60 años (OR=0,8 se consideró factor protector.A case control-type analytical study was made to determine the risk factors associated to the occurrence of degenerative dementia in old patients living in the people´s council "Los Maceo", whose population is taken care of by "Carlos J. Finlay" teaching polyclinics in Santiago de Cuba City. The sample was made up of 22 cases previously diagnosed as degenerative dements by the Multidisciplinary Gerontology Team and 66 controls. A survey was administered and the results achieved were analyzed. Odd ratios of each variable were estimated. Low educational level (OR=3,99 and the pathological family history of dementia (OR = 3.01 were identified as risk factors. No causal relation was observed among sex, intensive changes in emotional state and sudden repetitive change of the living environment (0R=1. The exercising of intellectual abilities after 60 years of age was considered to be a protective factor.

Música, cotidianidad e identidades colectivas en el cine de Agnès Jaoui

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Fraile Prieto, Teresa

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The films of Agnès Jaoui, a French filmmaker and actress, take an ironic and incisive view of the contemporary French bourgeoisie. Under the guise of dramatic comedies, her films offer polyphonic narratives underlining the difficulties of human relationships, the hypocrisies and the paradoxes of Western societies, as well as constituting a reflection upon identity discourses in present-day France. Jaoui’s biography is also closely linked to music, which comes accross in her films; and music becomes a fundamental element in the plot and a crucial means of expression. This paper analyses all these building blocks and their relation to the reality of France in the following films: Le goût des autres (2000, Comme une image (2004, and Parlez-moi de la pluie (2008.

El cine de la directora y actriz francesa Agnès Jaoui hace un retrato de la burguesía contemporánea del contexto francés en un tono mordaz e irónico. Bajo la apariencia de comedias dramáticas, sus películas plantean narrativas corales que sacan a la luz la dificultad de las relaciones humanas, las hipocresías y las paradojas de la sociedad occidental, al tiempo que son una reflexión sobre los discursos identitarios de la Francia actual. Además, la biografía de Jaoui presenta una estrecha relación con la música que se ve plasmada en sus películas, convirtiéndose en un factor fundamental de la trama y en un medio expresivo de primer orden en sus producciones. Este artículo aborda el estudio de todos estos elementos constructivos y su relación con la realidad francesa en los largometrajes Le goût des autres (Para todos los gustos, 2000, Comme une image (Como una imagen, 2004, y Parlez-moi de la pluie (Háblame de la lluvia, 2008.

Long-term results of Ahmed glaucoma valve implantation in Egyptian population

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Eman Elhefney

2018-03-01

Full Text Available AIM: To evaluate the long-term results and complications of Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV implantation in a cohort of Egyptian patients. METHODS: A retrospective study of 124 eyes of 99 patients with refractory glaucoma who underwent AGV implantation and had a minimum follow-up of 5y was performed. All patients underwent complete ophthalmic examination and intraocular pressure (IOP measurement before surgery and at 1d, weekly for the 1st month, 3, 6mo, and 1y after surgery and yearly afterward for 5y. IOP was measured by Goldmann applanation tonometry and/or Tono-Pen. Complications and the number of anti-glaucoma medications needed were recorded. Success was defined as IOP less than 21 mm Hg with or without anti-glaucoma medication and without additional glaucoma surgery. RESULTS: Mean age was 23.1±19.9y. All eyes had at least one prior glaucoma surgery. IOP was reduced from a mean of 37.2±6.8 to 19.2±5.2 mm Hg after 5y follow-up with a reduced number of medications from 2.64±0.59 to 1.81±0.4. Complete and qualified success rates were 31.5% and 46.0% respectively at the end of follow-up. The most common complications were encapsulated cyst formation in 51 eyes (41.1%, complicated cataract in 9 eyes (7.25%, recessed tube in 8 eyes (6.45%, tube exposure in 6 eyes (4.8% and corneal touch in 6 eyes (4.8%. Other complications included extruded AGV, endophthalmitis and persistent hypotony. Each of them was recorded in only 2 eyes (1.6%. CONCLUSION: Although refractory glaucoma is a difficult problem to manage, AGV is effective and relatively safe procedure in treating refractory glaucoma in Egyptian patients with long-term follow-up. Encapsulated cyst formation was the most common complication, which limits successful IOP control after AGV implantation. However, effective complications management can improve the rate of success.

From immigrants to national representatives abroad: the policy of partisan militancy in the Fasci Italiani all’Estero | De emigrantes a representantes de la nación en el extranjero: la política de encuadramiento partidista de los Fasci Italiani all’Estero

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Eduardo González Calleja

2012-12-01

Full Text Available The fascist foreign politics was characterized by an aggressive tone of protest, which aspired to involve all social and economic forces of the country in an imperial-minded revisionist project. Colonies of emigrants were seen as a matter of proselytizing in the times of the conquest of the power, as speakers of the new domestic and foreign in the years of regime consolidation and as the diffusing avant-gardes of an expansionist project of ideological content in his totalitarian phase. The essential instrument to address this politics of fascistization of the emigrants were the Fasci Italiani all'Estero, whose history went from the initial claim of autonomy at the beginning of the twenties to their control in the context of the institutionalization of the totalitarian State during the decade of the thirties and to their decline with the intervention of Italy in the Second World War. | La política exterior del fascismo se caracterizó por un tono agresivamente reivindicativo, que aspiraba a implicar a todas las fuerzas sociales y económicas del país en un proyecto revisionista con vocación imperial. Las colonias de emigrantes fueron contempladas como objeto de proselitismo en los tiempos de la conquista del poder, como altavoces de la nueva política interior y exterior en los años de consolidación del régimen y como las vanguardias difusoras de un proyecto expansivo de contenido ideológico en su fase totalitaria. El instrumento esencial para abordar esta política de fascistización de los emigrantes fueron los Fasci Italiani all’Estero, cuya historia pasó de la inicial reivindicación de autonomía a inicio de los años veinte a su control en el marco de la institucionalización del Estado totalitario durante la década de los treinta y a su declive con la intervención de Italia en la guerra mundial.

Astaxanthin from Crayfish (Procambarus clarkii as a Pigmentary Ingredient in the Feed of Laying Hens

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Garrido-Fernández, J.

2008-06-01

Full Text Available Chicken egg yolks generally owe their color to yellow carotenoids. The addition of synthetic red pigments allows changes in color, from the original yellow to red hues which may be more appealing to consumers in certain markets.Our aim has been to test whether ground crayfish shells, which are a rich and natural source of astaxanthin, produce detectable changes in the coloration of egg yolks through the accumulation of this carotenoid. Laying hens were fed with a commercial feed mixed with crayfish powder and the carotenoid profiles of the yolks in the eggs laid during the trial were monitored by HPLC. The analyses showed a progressive increase in the astaxanthin concentration in the egg yolks, reaching similar levels to those obtained for the rest of present carotenoid pigments.La yema de huevo de gallina debe su coloración a la presencia de carotenoides de tonalidad amarilla. La adición de colorantes sintéticos de tonalidades rojas permite modificar e incrementar la coloración de la yema desde el amarillo original a tonos rojos que pueden ser demandados en ciertos mercados según las preferencias del consumidor. El objetivo del trabajo fue probar si un triturado obtenido a partir de caparazones de cangrejo, que es una fuente natural y rica en astaxanteno, produce cambios detectables en la coloración de la yema de huevo por la acumulación de dicho carotenoide. Las gallinas ponedoras se alimentaron con un pienso comercial al que se adicionó triturado de caparazón de cangrejo. Se realizó un seguimiento de los cambios en la composición carotenoide (mediante HPLC de la yema de los huevos puestos durante el periodo de alimentación suplementada. Los análisis mostraron una progresiva incorporación de astaxanteno que alcanzó niveles similares al resto de carotenoides presentes inicialmente en la yema.

Reference Values for the Ophthalmic Schirmer Tear Test and the Intraocular Pressure in Healthy Chinchillas

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Richards M.

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The objective of this study was to measure the intraocular pressure (IOP and tear production before and after topical anaesthesia in healthy chinchillas (Chinchilla lanigera. Thirteen healthy non-sedated chinchillas (eight males and five females were used in this study. The tear production was measured by the novel endodontic paper point tear test (PPTT using Roeko Colour No. 30 Paper points. Following the PPTT, one drop of 0.4 % oxybuprokainium chloride was added to the eye to anaesthetise the cornea and the IOP was measured using the Tono-Pen Avia®Vet. Excess anaesthetic was removed from the conjunctival fornix using a sterile cotton tipped applicator and the PPTT II was performed. The PPTT I and II were measured in 26 eyes, mean ± standard deviations (SD were 7.98 ± 1.95 mm.min−1, and 9.71 ± 3.52 mm.min−1 respectively. The IOP was measured in 20 eyes, and the mean ± SD was 28.52 ± 12.48 mmHg (35.50 ± 9.31 mmHg in males and 21.53 ± 11.57 mmHg in females. There was no significant difference in the PPTT results between the left and right eyes or between the male and female groups. The males were found to have a significantly higher IOP than females and the PPTT II was significantly greater than the PPTT I. The PPTT test proved to be effective, easy to use, and reliable, causing little apparent discomfort to the chinchillas and could prove to be a much more effective tool than the Schirmer tear test for the evaluation of the tear production in animals with small eyes and/or low aqueous tear production. The mean intraocular pressure proved to be much higher in this population of chinchillas than those previously studied and so further investigation is warranted before a reliable reference range may be produced.

Surto de intoxicação por sal em ovinos no estado do Pará

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Marcos D. Duarte

2014-11-01

Full Text Available O presente trabalho relata um surto de intoxicação por sal em ovinos no Brasil, em uma propriedade no estado do Pará. De um total de 545 ovinos, oito animais adoeceram (1,46% e quatro destes morreram (50%. A avaliação das instalações e do manejo indicaram como fatores predisponentes a ingestão excessiva de mistura mineral e a restrição hídrica. Os principais sinais clínicos foram decúbito, diminuição ou ausência da sensibilidade cutânea, ausência dos reflexos de ameaça, palpebral e auricular, midríase, nistagmo, opistótono, espasticidade de membros, sonolência e estupor. Havia ainda, timpanismo, diarreia, taquipneia, taquicardia, desidratação e poliúria. A evolução do quadro clínico nos animais que morreram variou de duas horas e meia a 48 horas. As médias das concentrações séricas de sódio e de potássio de 31 ovinos do mesmo lote afetado pela intoxicação, em amostras colhidas durante o surto, revelaram hipernatremia (190mEq/l e hipercalemia (8,2mEq/l. À necropsia, observou-se em um animal, achatamento das circunvoluções cerebrais. Microscopicamente, neste animal, evidenciou-se vacuolização moderada do neurópilo, particularmente nas lâminas intermediárias do córtex cerebral, com aumento dos espaços perineural e perivascular. Nessas áreas foram observados ainda, acentuada tumefação e edema dos astrócitos e necrose neuronal aguda. A dosagem de sódio no encéfalo de um ovino, revelou-se elevada com valor de 3.513ppm. O diagnóstico foi realizado com base na epidemiologia, nos sinais clínicos, nas lesões macro e microscópicas e nas dosagens de sódio no soro e no encéfalo dos ovinos.

Nouvelle manga, mon amour. Reflexiones sobre la narración gráfica de historias cotidianas

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Olalla Hernández Ranz

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Desde sus primeras manifestaciones hace más de un siglo, el cómic se ha ido consolidando como un género popular sobretodo dirigido a un lector juvenil. Su evidente atractivo entre los lectores ha hecho que algunos padres, educadores y profesionales del ámbito de la promoción de la lectura se plantearan el por qué de dicha afición, llegando a conclusiones erróneas como la creencia de que se trata de una lectura menor, dirigida esencialmente a la pura distracción de quien los lee. El manga, en concreto, es el género dentro del cómic que más se consume en occidente. Se ha convertido en un fructífero producto de mercado que deriva en videojuegos, series de televisión, películas de cine… Su gran acogida entre el público infantil y juvenil preocupa a mediadores por la supuesta carga violenta y sexual y la baja calidad literaria de sus obras. El presente propuesta tratará de deshacer algunos tópicos en relación con la concepción errónea la historieta nipona, a partir del estudio de un corpus de obras creadas por autores japoneses y europeos que quieren aportar un cómic de calidad tanto en su forma como en el contenido, abriendo así las puertas a nuevas investigaciones de gran interés. La Novelle manga es un nuevo género dentro del cómic nipón que aúna las estrategias comunicativas más destacables de las novelas gráficas japonesas, el valor estético del cómic francés y la sencillez y el tono de las películas de cine francés dentro de la Nouvelle Vague para crear un cómic que narra historias cotidianas de gran valor literario y estético, muy recomendable para lectores juveniles y adultos.

Leading research in FY 1995. Research of product evaluation and advanced measurements - Part 1 (product evaluation); 1995 nendo sendo kenkyu. Seihin hyoka kodo keisoku bunseki gijutsu ni kansuru chosa kenkyu - 1 (seihin hyoka)

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1996-03-01

Product evaluation has been investigated from a viewpoint of compatibility with human life by considering human being as the subject of life. This report describes the investigation results. Product evaluation is defined as evaluating products on a consumer-oriented viewpoint and informing consumers of the evaluation results. According to a questionnaire survey with regard to daily living products, products in the low degree of satisfaction in their usage were electric tooth brush, video camera, electric rice jar, vacuum cleaner, and electric iron. Contents of dissatisfaction with these products were classified by aspect, i.e., human aspect regarding human body/recognition, life aspect regarding functions of products and how to use them, and sensitivity aspect such as appearance of products. Thus, points at issue were clarified. As regards the human aspect, incompatibility between the size/form of products and human body/posture, and recognition psychological incompatibility such as difficulty in understanding function or operation of products were pointed out. Establishment of a method for measuring and evaluating the human`s body functions and the compatibility with products, and necessity of the acquisition of human`s body characteristic data and the consolidation positions are also described. 4 refs., 42 figs., 30 tabs.

Collection and analysis of the information related to the research theme of the IEA-GHG phase 3 program; IEA-GHG phase 3 program no kenkyu theme kanren joho no shushu to bunseki gyomu

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1997-03-01

The survey on the reduction measures against greenhouse effect gases was carried out which was proposed by the IEA-GHG phase 3 program. In Japan, various low emission vehicles (LEV) such as electric, methanol and natural gas vehicles are under rapid development. Like France, cost reduction and preparation of fuel filling stations are urgently necessary for the diffusion of LEVs. In New Zealand, air pollution by automobiles is not essential. The Switzerland government is promoting the diffusion of compact electric vehicles, and inhibits the use of conventional automobiles in some tourist resorts. The California state is leading the world by prescribing the bold regulation for preventing the air from pollution. In particular, the state government put automobile manufacturers under an obligation to produce zero emission vehicles (ZEV, electric vehicle) by 2% of passenger cars and trucks from 1998 and to increase ZEVs up to 10% until 2010. This report also includes two papers concerned, `Forestry management for sustainable development` and `Tropical forestry action plan after five years.` 142 refs., 19 figs., 23 tabs.

Report on the evaluation of the development of the catalyst surface high accuracy quantitative analysis technology using electron spectroscopy; Denshi bunkoho ni yoru shokubai hyomen koseido teiryo bunseki gijutsu no kaihatsu hyoka hokokusho

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2000-03-01

An objective evaluation from a third party was conducted on the purpose, plan, execution method, achievement, etc. of a project 'The devilment of the catalyst surface high accuracy quantitative analysis technology using electron spectroscopy.' The purpose of the project is to make the relationing possible between the analytical results of the catalyst surface and the catalyst performance which has been so far difficult by heightening the accuracy of the catalyst quantitative surface analytical accuracy using the electron spectroscopy. The purpose and significance are judged to be worth a lot. This project is an industry/university/government joint project between the two countries. The project is excellent both in connection among research institutes and leadership of chief researchers, and it is judged that the joint research system fully functioned. The term of the project was shortened from 3 years in the first plan to 2 years, and therefore, the study was finished only on silicon oxide and organic thin films. However, it was determined that the study results are to be run in the magazine 'Surface and Interface Analysis,' which indicates that the achievement was judged to be very worth in the academic viewpoint. (NEDO)

Report on a survey in fiscal 1999. Analysis of English literatures related to unified evaluation models for global warming; 1999 nendo chikyu ondanka togo hyoka model kanren eibun shiryo no bunseki choa hokokusho

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2000-03-01

This paper summarizes the basic materials related to unified evaluation models for global warming. The unified evaluation is a disciplinary process to combine, interpret and share the information from different scientific disciplinary areas in such a form that the whole cause and effect chain can be evaluated from a macroscopic view. The process has higher utilization value than the evaluation overemphasizing a single academic area, and can provide decision makers with useful information. The process is suitable to model complex interactions and feedback mechanisms in diversified scenes such as climate change. The unified evaluation can identify the policy criteria along with a measure framework having consistency. The evaluation process is repetitive and continuous, wherein a science community can convey comprehensive knowledge and finding to a decision making community. In turn, the decision making side can feed back the experiences and achievements in learning. Execution of the evaluation requires different approaches, such as judgement of specialists including the modeling methods and experience, discovery as a result of applying the policies, and survey methods. The paper also describes the gaming conception, scenario analysis, and unification evaluation methods. (NEDO)

FY 2000 Report on survey/analysis of needs. Survey on systems for developing welfare-related equipment in overseas countries; 2000 nendo needs chosa bunseki hokokusho. Kaigai ni okeru fukushi kiki kaihatsu seido chosa

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2001-03-01

The systems in American and European countries for technological development of welfare-related equipment and tools are surveyed and analyzed, with the objectives to draw proposals for establishing the systems which help smooth spread of the research/development results. It is necessary, in selecting the research themes, to well balance the supports for research and development based on the ideas and initiatives by the researchers with those for the publicly invited themes in which the government narrows down the politically important items. For exchanging researchers, the program should help exchange researchers routinely, to match the needs and seeds. It is necessary for the research and development programs promoted by the government for welfare-related equipment to quantitatively grasp the characteristics of various body functions and deterioration of these functions by aging, and to encourage the new participants by providing them with the databases. For promotion of spreading the R and D results, it is necessary to develop laws and regulations which help reduce expenses of the individual disabled and aged, and promote purchase of equipment through insurance, like ADA and rehabilitation-related laws adopted by USA. (NEDO)

Influência antrópica em três ecótonos floresta/campo da Floresta Atlântica do Sudeste do Brasil: análise de micropartículas carbonizadas em solos superficiais

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De Oliveira, Paulo Eduardo; Passacantili, Maria da Glória Silva Bispo

2010-01-01

Através da quantificação de micropartículas carbonizadas em solos superficiais, determinou-se a intensidade de incêndios recentes em três áreas da Floresta Atlântica com mosaico floresta/campo: duas na Serra do Mar, São Paulo e uma na Reserva Natural Vale do Rio Doce, Linhares, Espírito Santo. As micropartículas foram quantificadas em três classes de tamanho: 51 µm. Os dados mostram que as três áreas estiveram recentemente sujeitas a incêndios. Os campos da Reserva ...

Influência antrópica em três ecótonos floresta/campo da Floresta Atlântica do Sudeste do Brasil: análise de micropartículas carbonizadas em solos superficiais

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De Oliveira,Paulo Eduardo; Passacantili,Maria da Glória Silva Bispo

2010-01-01

Através da quantificação de micropartículas carbonizadas em solos superficiais, determinou-se a intensidade de incêndios recentes em três áreas da Floresta Atlântica com mosaico floresta/campo: duas na Serra do Mar, São Paulo e uma na Reserva Natural Vale do Rio Doce, Linhares, Espírito Santo. As micropartículas foram quantificadas em três classes de tamanho: < 25 µm, de 26 a 5 0µm e > 51 µm. Os dados mostram que as três áreas estiveram recentemente sujeitas a incêndios. Os campos da Reser...

Customer prime s choice between quality and price of electric service. Denryoku hinshitsu to kakaku ni taisuru juyoka no sentaku. ; Ogata computerter dot user ni okeru back-up dengen kiki sentaku no suryo bunseki

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Fujii, Y.; Matsukawa, I.

1990-03-01

This study is done for the purpose of numerically analyzing how customers react to make their choice between quality and price, as well as to evaluating the marketability of the new electric service differentiated by quality, on the assumption that electric utility is capable of providing the multi-product of the service with various combinations instead of the conventional single product between price and quality. An analysis was made for the customers like the large-scale computer users those who attach importance to quality. As for the method of the analysis, the choice (the introduction of emergency power source or uninterruptible power system) which have been actually done by the customers for the following two conditions, were used as the model of the analysis: The one was the standard of the requirements for the quality of electric power, of which requirements were composed of the two factors, such as the reliability on power supply and momentary voltage drop; The other was the cost (purchased power price plus investment by consumers for back-up power system) necessary to maintain the quality. Consequently, it was found that in order to heighten the competitiveness for the competition in electricity market, electric utility had to establish their service rate corresponding to the load, as well as that the quality was a important strategic factor for them. 30 refs., 10 figs., 9 tabs.

Game theoretic analysis for carbon emission permits trading among multiple world regions with an optimizing global energy model; Saitekikagata sekai energy model ni motozuku tachiikikan CO2 haishutsu kyokasho torihiki no game ronteki bunseki

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Akimoto, K.; Matsunaga, A.; Fujii, Y. [Yokohama National University, Yokohama (Japan); Yamaji, K. [The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)

1998-10-01

Carbon emissions which would cause global warming were agreed to be constrained at COP3 in Kyoto. In addition, carton emission permits trading was also approved to be introduced. The emission permits trading is expected to achieve efficient carbon emission reduction, equalizing the marginal costs of the emission reduction for the participating countries. In other words, the permits trading allows participants to reduce emissions where it is least expensive to do so. However, the inadequate introduction of the trading systems may impose unfairly greater burden on some countries, and therefore careful evaluation of the system would be indispensable for its implementation. In this paper, we attempt to analyze the emission permits trading. using the theory of cooperative games with a global energy model of optimization type. We assumed that seven world regions as players participate the permits trading system under the condition of the emission reduction target presented at COP3 and so on, and show the nucleolus of the grand coalition games, and the computational results of primary energy supplies and CO2 shadow prices. The insights of this research indicate that in order to stabilize the grand coalition, a noticeable amount of additional transfer of money would be needed besides the payments associated with the emission permits trading. 10 refs., 7 figs., 5 tabs.

Fiscal 1999 international cooperation project report. Development of high-precision quantitative analysis technology for catalyst surfaces by electron spectroscopy; 1999 nendo denshi bunkoho ni yoru shokubai hyomen koseido teiryo bunseki bijutsu no kaihatsu seika hokokusho

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2000-03-01

This project targets to make analysis of surface chemical phenomena of solid catalysts possible, and establish the basis of intelligent design for catalytic materials, through development of an advanced electron spectroscopy for surface analysis. In fiscal 1999, the research was promoted by using the diffraction grating and driving mechanism introduced in fiscal 1998, and by developing the measurement result on silicon oxide films by radiation beam photoelectron spectroscopy. The measurement technique was established by the optimized measurement process which can treat variable parameters as constant. The analysis result of measurement data in fiscal 1999 showed the dependence of an electron damping length in silicon oxide films on radiation photon energy. The energy dependence well agreed with a theoretically obtained inelastic mean free path of electrons qualitatively, while was smaller by nearly 30% than the latter quantitatively. Measurement was made on the damping length in oxidation-active Gd and Nd oxide films. In both cases of Si and Si oxide film substrates, oxidation of substrates or formation of silicate was observed. (NEDO)

Numerical investigation of out-of-plane secondary stress in the web of floor beam of steel truss bridge. Ko torasu kyo no yukageta web ni shojiru mengai niji oryoku no suchiteki gen'in bunseki

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Sato, T. (Kisarazu National College of Technology, Chiba (Japan)); Kuranishi, S. (Kanto Gakuin Univ., Kanagawa (Japan). Faculty of Engineering); Nakazawa, M. (Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan). Faculty of Enginering)

1994-06-20

Comparative investigation of numerical analysis results of out-of-plane secondary stress caused in a cross beam web around scallop before reinforcement and around cutting portion of vertical stiffeners after reinforcement was carried out. In case of steel truss bridge, there exists difference in axial thrust between outside stringers which continue through a cross beam, and it was revealed that this axial thrust was the main factor which causes partial bending stress in a cross beam web plate. When the lower end of vertical stiffeners is not connected to a cross beam foot flange considering of welding, out-of-plane secondary stress was caused partially in a cross beam web plate around scallop, because of the difficult to transmit adjoining stringers axial thrust difference directly to foot flange. In case of the actual analysis, cross beam web plate around cutting portion of vertical stiffeners causes partial out-of-plane secondary stress in web plate, due to being pressed partially by comparatively high stiffness vertical stiffeners. When repair and reinforcement of steel road truss bridge are carried out, it is necessary to take close attention specially on the structure of the parts in which outside stringers is connected to cross beam. 18 refs., 16 figs.

Survey report for fiscal 1998. Joint research project with researchers related to petroleum substituting energies in the EU countries; 1998 nendo EU shokoku no sekiyu daitai energy kanren kenkyusha tono kyodo kenkyu jigyo chosa hokokusho

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1999-03-01

It was intended to invite researchers related to petroleum substituting energies from the EU countries to perform joint researches at research organizations under the auspices of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology having deep relations with research themes of the invited researchers, to deepen the mutual understanding, and to form efficient cooperative relationship. The intention is also to contribute to research and development of petroleum substituting energies to be used in Japan in the future. The research themes, researchers, their research organizations, and the receiving research organizations are as follows: (1) evaluation of reservoir impedance in high-temperature rock experimental fields by Mr. Ralph Weidler (Germany) at Ruhr University received by the Resource and Environmental Technology Research Institute; (2) changing the particle boundary structure of ceramics by using the alkoxide process by Dr. Ramon Torrecillas (Spain) at Institute Nacional del Carbon received by the Nagoya Industrial Technology Research Institute; (3) research on corrosion in metallic materials for molten carbonate type fuel cells by Dr. Giuseppe Calogero (Italy) at Institute for Transformation and Storage of Energy received by the Osaka Industrial Technology Research Institute; and (4) estimation of behavior of deep geothermal reservoirs with high enthalpy by Dr. Enrico Maranini at Universita' Di Ferrara received by the Geology Survey Center. (NEDO)

Modelado computacional usando regresión lineal y simbólica a B para determinar ópticamente el tamaño del poro de la piel

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N. P. Puente Ramírez

2015-01-01

Full Text Available La apariencia de los poros de la piel normalmente es causada por glándulas sebáceas hiperactivas, sin embargo, en los últimos años se ha reportado que además se ve afectada por diversas enfermedades, entre ellas la diabetes [1], obesidad [2] o cáncer [3]. Generalmente los principales factores que contribuyen a la dilatación de los poros son la edad, género, acné, la exposición crónica al sol o la predispocisión genética. El desarrollo de un método no invasivo que permita conocer las condiciones de la piel, ayudara a relacionar los factores que determinan el tamaño del poro de la piel. En este trabajo se pretende caracterizar por medio de un modelo computacional y con ayuda de un esquema óptico, el tamaño del poro de la piel. El principio físico consiste en iluminar con leds (543nm el antebrazo de voluntarios, el esparcimiento de luz generado por la piel es colectada en una camara ccd. La captura de imágenes, el procesamiento y el análisis estadístico son parte de la metodología para la obtención de datos. Se propone un modelo matemático que relaciona género, edad, tono de piel y tamaño del poro (calculado estadísticamente en las imágenes colectadas ópticamente. Una base de datos se genera y se utiliza para construir matemáticamente modelos mediante regresión simbólica con optimizacion por enjambre de particulas (PSO y se realiza una comparación por medio de regresión lineal. Algunos indicadores estadísticos como el cuadrado medio de error, error de predicción suma de los cuadrados y porcentaje de variabilidad se utilizan en la comparación. Los resultados indican que el modelo propuesto con el tamaño de los poros de cada individuo puede ayudar a hacer una interpretación objetiva de indicadores de enfermedad que afecten directamente el tamaño del poro en la piel.

Hipocalcemia e crises neonatais: Um caso raro de hipoparatireoidismo congênito Hypocalcemia and neonatal seizures: a rare case of congenital hypoparathyroidism

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Cristiane Rocha

2002-03-01

Full Text Available Descrevemos o caso de uma criança do sexo masculino, com 2 meses de idade, com tremor e hipertonia desde 15º dia de vida transferido para o nosso Serviço em que foi diagnosticado como tendo crises epilépticas. A investigação constatou hipocalcemia (4 mg/dL e hipomagnesemia (1,6 mg/dL e a correção intravenosa foi iniciada. Em todas as tentativas de suspensão da medicação intravenosa havia recidiva das crises. O diagnóstico de hipoparatireoidismo foi aventado e confirmado por investigação complementar. O exame neurológico mostrava uma criança irritada e em opistótono. A tomografia e a ressonância de encéfalo foram normais, mas o EEG evidenciou graves anormalidades. O tratamento oral com colecalciferol, cálcio e magnésio foi instituído. O paciente permaneceu internado durante 6 meses com dificuldade de controle das crises e infecções repetidas, vindo a falecer por esse motivo. Discutimos os achados clínicos, exames complementares, o diagnóstico diferencial e o tratamento instituído.We report the case of a white male infant, 2 months-old, with tremor and hypertonia since 15th day of life transferred to our service and diagnosed as seizures. Investigation showed hypocalcaemia (4 mg/dl and hypomagnesemia (1.6 mg/dL and the infant's serum metabolic disturb was corrected by intravenous calcium gluconate and magnesium sulphate, but attempted to "wean" him from intravenous treatment led to a relapse of hypocalcemia. At this time hypoparathyroidism was suspected and the additional investigation confirmed this suspect ion. The neurologic examination revealed an irritable patient with marked extensor hypertonia and opisthotonos. Cranial CT and MRI scans were normal, but the EEG exam showed severe abnormalities. The infant was given the oral calcium gluconate, magnesium chloride and colecalciferol daily to maintain a normal calcium concentration, but the control was very difficult. The patient had an extend hospitalization of 6

Stepwise hydrogeological characterisation utilising a geo-synthesis methodology - A case study from the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory Project

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Saegusa, H.; Osawa, H.; Onoe, H.; Ohyama, T.; Takeuchi, R.; Takeuchi, S.

2009-01-01

The Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) is now under construction by Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in the Cretaceous Toki granite in the Tono area of central Japan. One of the main goals of the MIU project, which is a broad scientific study of the deep geological environment as a basis of research and development for geological disposal of nuclear wastes, is to establish comprehensive techniques for the investigation, analysis and assessment of the deep geological environment in fractured crystalline rock. For this purpose, a geo-synthesis methodology has been developed and will be tested in a dry run to determine if it produces the data required for repository design and associated integrated safety assessment modelling. Surface-based hydrogeological characterisation, intended to develop conceptual models of the deep geological environment based on an understanding of the undisturbed conditions before excavation of this URL, was carried out in a stepwise manner. This allows field investigations, construction of geological and hydrogeological models and interpretation of resultant groundwater flow simulations to develop in an iterative manner. Investigations have the goal of obtaining information on factors relevant to repository design, associated construction, operational and postclosure safety assessment, evaluation of the practicality of implementation and environmental impact assessment. Such factors include bulk hydraulic conductivity, the locations and properties of water conducting features, direct and indirect indicators of regional and local flow (e.g. based on chemistry or isotopes), etc. Following evaluation of pre-existing site information, field investigations began with fault mapping. This was followed by reflection seismic and vertical seismic profile surveys. In addition, a large programme of investigations was carried out in boreholes, including cross-hole tomography and hydraulic tests. Such input is utilised for the construction

Developing a Fracture Model of the Granite Rocks Around the Research Tunnel at the Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory in Central Japan

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Kalinina, E.; Hadgu, T.; Wang, Y.

2017-12-01

The Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory (MIU) is located in Tono area in Central Japan. It is operated by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) with the main purpose of providing scientific basis for the research and development of technologies needed for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste in fractured crystalline rocks. The current work is focused on the research and experiments in the tunnel located at 500 m depth. The data collected in the tunnel and exploratory boreholes were shared with the participants of the DEvelopment of COupled models and their VALidation against EXperiments (DECOVALEX), an international research and model comparison collaboration. This study describes the development of the fracture model representing granite rocks around the research tunnel. The model domain is 100x150x100m with the main experimental part of the tunnel, Closure Test Drift, located approximately in the center. The major input data were the fracture traces measured on the tunnel walls (total of 2,023 fractures), fractures observed in the horizontal borehole parallel to the tunnel, and the packer tests conducted in this borehole and one vertical borehole located within the modeling domain. 78 fractures (the ones with the inflow) in the tunnel were incorporated in the development of the fracture model. Fracture size was derived from the fracture trace analysis. It was shown that the fracture radius followed lognormal distributions. Fracture transmissivity was estimated from an analytical solution of inflow into the tunnel through an individual fracture and the total measured inflow into the tunnel. 16 fractures were incorporated in the model along the horizontal borehole. The packer test data in the different well intervals were used to estimate the range in fracture transmissivity. A relationship between the fracture transmissivity and fracture radius was developed. The fractures in the tunnel and borehole were used to derive fracture orientation and

Sensorineural hearing loss in high school teenagers in Mexico City and its relationship with recreational noise Las alteraciones auditivas de escolares adolescentes en la Ciudad de México pueden estar relacionadas al ruido recreativo

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María del Consuelo Martínez-Wbaldo

2009-12-01

Full Text Available The aim of this study was to measure the frequency of hearing loss in a sample of typical public high-school students exposed to recreational noise, and determine associated risk factors. The sample was made up of 214 teenagers from a high-school in Mexico City; subjects were selected randomly per strata. We applied a questionnaire to identify risk factors for hearing loss and performed a battery of audiologic tests consisting of otoscopy, tympanometry, and pure-tone audiometry. The mean age of the sample was 16 ± 1.07 years; 73% were male and 27%, female. Hearing loss was found in 21% of students. The main hearing loss-related risk factor was exposure to recreational noise: frequent attendance at discotheques and pop-music concerts; use of personal stereos; and noise exposure in school workshops. The high frequency of hearing loss in high school students from one Mexico City school (nearly one fifth of the sample was found to be related to noise exposure mainly during recreational activities.El objetivo de este estudio fue medir la frecuencia de alteraciones auditivas en una muestra de escolares de educación media superior expuestos a ruido recreativo y determinar algunos factores de riesgo asociados. La muestra estuvo constituida por 214 adolescentes de una escuela de la Ciudad de México. Los sujetos fueron seleccionados al azar por medio de una computadora. Se aplicaron cuestionarios con el objeto de identificar los factores de riesgo para alteraciones auditivas y se les practicaron diversos estudios audiológicos consistentes en: otoscopía, timpanometría y una audiometría a tonos puros. La edad media de la muestra fue de 16 ± 1,07 años, 73% fueron del sexo masculino y 27% femenino. Se encontraron alteraciones auditivas en 21% de los estudiantes. Los principales factores de riesgo asociados a alteraciones auditivas fueron: exposición al ruido recreativo al asistir a discotecas, conciertos de música popular, el uso de equipos de

HIPOPLASIA CEREBELAR E PORENCEFALIA EM BOVINOS CHAROLÊS NO SUL DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL CEREBELLAR HYPOPLASIA AND PORENCEPHALY IN CHAROLAIS CATLLE IN SOUTHERN BRAZIL

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Ana Lucia Schild

2001-02-01

Full Text Available Descrevem-se dois casos de hipoplasia cerebelar congênita observados em terneiros da raça Charolês, pertencentes a um estabelecimento localizado no município de Capão do Leão. Um dos animais apresentava sinais clínicos cerebelares ao nascimento, caracterizados por severa incoordenação motora, hipermetria e tremores de intenção, principalmente da cabeça e do pescoço. O outro animal não conseguia manter-se em estação e apresentava opistótono acentuado. As lesões macroscópicas caracterizaram-se por hipoplasia cerebelar, observando-se apenas remanescentes das regiões do flóculo e do paraflóculo cerebelares e uma cavidade preenchida por líquido e recoberta pelas leptomeninges, que estavam aderidas aos resquícios das folhas cerebelares. Ao corte do encéfalo, havia hidrocefalia discreta e a presença de cavidades císticas (porencefalia. São discutidas as possíveis etiologias, sugerindo-se a possibilidade de que a enfermidade tenha sido causada pelo vírus da diarréia viral bovina-doença das mucosas, apesar dos resultados negativos da imuno-histoquímica realizada em fragmentos do cerebelo dos animais doentes para detecção desse vírus.Two cases of cerebellar hypoplasia in Charolais calves from a herd of a farm located in the municipality of Capão do Leão, Southern Brazil are described. One calf with cerebellar clinical signs at birth, showed incoordination, hypermetria and intention tremors, mainly in the neck and head. The other calf was recumbent with opisthotonos. The gross lesions were characterized by cerebellar hypoplasia, with only remnants of cerebellar floculus and parafloculus and an expanded fluid-filled space covered by leptomeninges. Mild hydrocephalus and porencephaly were observed in the cerebrum. It was discussed the possible etiologies and suggested the possibility of the disease has been caused by bovine viral diarrhea-mucosal disease (BVD-MD virus despite of negative results of imuno

Aspectos ecológicos da leishmaniose tegumentar americana: 5. Estratificação da atividade espacial e estacional de Phlebotominae (Diptera, Psychodidae em áreas de cultura agrícola da região do Vale do Ribeira, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil Epidemiological aspects of the American cutaneous leishmaniasis: 5. Stratification of the spatial and seasonal activity of the Phelebotominae (Diptera, Psychodidae in agricultural cultivated area of Ribeira Valley, São Paulo State, Brazil

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Almério de Castro Gomes

1987-12-01

Full Text Available A composição e estratificação da atividade Phlebotominae desenvolvida numa mata residual e área aberta com intensa atividade agrícola, tomam parte desta investigação. O emprego da armadilha CDC tornou acessivo determinar a fauna local. Treze espécies e um número global de 5.423 indivíduos foram capturados. Os pontos situados no ecótono foram os que apresentaram maiores rendimentos, com destaque para P. intermedius, L. migonei e L. fischeri. Desse modo, os resultados levam acreditar serem portadoras de hábito acrodendrófilo. Por outro lado, quando o resultado global foi agrupado segundo o sexo masculino e feminino, o primeiro foi predominante. A análise da distruição estacional dessas espécies citadas revelou claramente picos de atividades mais elevados, bi e tri-modal, para diferentes estações. Na estação outono, P. intermedius teve atividade quase exclusivamente ao nível do solo. Esta exclusividade praticamente se estendeu aos locais de coleta situados em campo aberto.This paper deals with the investigation on the composition and stratification of the Phebotominae activity developed in patch and clear areas of high agricultural activity. The employment of a CDC light trap proved to be a useful tool in determining the local faune. Thirteen species of sandflies and a total of 5,423 individuals were caught. The catch places situated in the ecotone were the ones in which the results reached their best, being outstanding for Psychodopygus intermedius, Lutzomyia migonei and L. fischeri. Thereby, data lead us to believe they have acrodendrophilous habit. On the other hand, when the global results were gathered according to male and female categories, the first one proved to be predominant. In the analysis of seasonal distribution for the three species cited, it was clear that the high-activity peaks were bi- and tri-modal for different seasons. P. intermedius was almost the exclusive sandfly caught at ground level in the Autumn

Síndrome de Guillian Barré y embarazo

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Pedro Pablo Quintero Paredes

2015-10-01

Full Text Available Introducción: el síndrome de Guillain-Barré es una polineuropatía motora aguda de mecanismo inmunológico que se caracteriza por la pérdida de fuerza rápidamente progresiva y es raro en el embarazo. Presentación del caso: se presenta el caso de mujer de 37 años de edad, segundo embarazo, 26 semanas de gestación; es remitida por el equipo básico de salud e ingresada en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos. Fue diagnosticada con una disminución en el tono y la fuerza muscular en las cuatro extremidades, que se fue instalando de forma progresiva, más acentuada en ambos miembros inferiores desde hace una semana, dificultad para hablar, cerrar los ojos y cifras de presión arterial elevadas. Se confirmó el diagnóstico de síndrome de Guillain-Barré. El estudio de conducción nerviosa muestra una polineuropatía axonomielínica con predominio axonal motor-sensitiva de moderada a severa intensidad, que afecta todos los nervios periféricos explorados. Al tercer día de ingreso en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos presenta descompensación de la tensión arterial y diarreas, interpretándose como una colitis seudomembranosa. Se le realizó fisioterapia de rehabilitación y tratamiento medicamentoso específico. Fue dada de alta a las 28,6 semanas de gestación con una evolución satisfactoria. Se le realizó cesárea a las 39.5 semana de gestación. El recién nacido tuvo buen peso y apgar. Conclusiones: Durante la gestación el síndrome de Guillain-Barré es un cuadro atípico, por lo que se recogen pocos casos en la literatura mundial. Su manejo no se modifica por esta rara asociación, con la esperanza de no tener complicaciones, llegar a un parto normal y buen estado de salud del niño y la recuperación de la madre.

Trasplantation of larynx and trachea: both a present and future option Trasplantes de la laringe y tráquea, una opción para el presente y el futuro

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Francisco Martínez

2004-01-01

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Lost functions of the larynx and the trachea may be restored by different means, but none of them is physiologic and patients are left with functional difficulties and self-esteem disorders that alter the quality of their lives.  Transplantation of these organs is an useful alternative but certain basic requirements concerning revascularization, reinnervation and immunosupression should be fulfilled.  The former has been achieved through the knowledge of vascular territories and the advances in surgical techniques.  Difficulties for reinnervation have no yet been thoroughly overcome but tone can be achieved in the vocal folds and functionality may be obtained by manipulation of their position.  Immunosupression is produced with cyclosporine which requirements were determined in experimental models.  The main reason for carrying out these and other transplantations is to improve the quality of life of persons who have suffered the loss of an organ.  A review is presented on important aspects that have to be taken into account when performing these transplantations.

Edificio de oficinas para el Sacramento Municipal Utility District – Smud

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Dreyfuss & Blackford, Arquitectos

1963-03-01

Full Text Available This building takes advantage of the uneveness of the ground, and seeks to enhance the attractiveness of the landscape. It includes a cafeteria, an auditorium for 190 persons, exhibition hall, space for the various departments, and other facilities. Allowance has been made for a 30% increase in the staff. One floor level has been constructed, but is not fully completed, and there is the possibility of adding another one. There is parking space for 720 automobiles. The glass walls are specially fitted with a protection, whereby the sun does not shine on the office tables. The external colour of the building changes continuously, for the aluminium reflects or absorbs the sun, depending on the time of day and the season of the year: this colour changes from bronze to quartz tone, under the effect of the sun, and from white to grey in the shade. The green turf emphasizes the delicate tones of the building. The basic requirements have been satisfied by means of a beautiful and harmonious design, which constitutes an altogether important architectural unit.Ha sido construido aprovechando los desniveles del ter reno para crear un paisaje interesante. Dispone de: cafetería, auditorio para 190 personas, sala de exposición, espacios para los distintos departamentos, etc. Se ha previsto pueda servir para un aumento de un 30% de empleados, existiendo una planta construida, pero no acabada, y la posibilidad de construir otra. Estacionamiento con capacidad para 720 coches. Toda la zona acristalada está protegida mediante dispositivos que impiden a los rayos solares incidir sobre las mesas de trabajo. El color exterior del edificio cambia continuamente, ya que el aluminio refleja o absorbe el sol, según las horas del día o la época del año, pasando de un tono bronceado a un blanco cuarcífero. En la sombra, del blanco al gris. Las fajas verdes de césped destacan la brillante delicadeza de las paredes. En forma bella y armoniosa han sido satisfechas las

ESPÉCIES DE CUPINS (ISOPTERA EM CULTURA DE EUCALIPTO SOB DIFERENTES SISTEMAS DE MANEJO DE IRRIGAÇÃO, EM REGIÃO DE TRANSIÇÃO CERRADO-PANTANAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL, BRASIL

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Ana Paula Tavares da Silva

2015-02-01

Full Text Available O eucalipto sofre severos danos por cupins durante a implantação das mudas no campo, sendo considerada praga importante da cultura. No ecótono Cerrado/Pantanal não existem estudos anteriores sobre a ocorrência de cupins em plantações de eucalipto. O objetivo foi conhecer a riqueza de cupins, sua distribuição nos tratamentos e a influência do ambiente nas populações de cupins, nos híbridos de eucalipto Eucalyptus grandis x E. camaldulensis e Eucalyptus urophylla x E. grandis com fertirrigação por gotejamento, microaspersão e sequeiro. O delineamento experimental foi o de blocos ao acaso, com 10 tratamentos e quatro repetições. A riqueza de cupins foi associada pela Análise de Correspondência e pela influência climática pela Análise de Componentes Principais. Os cupins foram coletados de março de 2012 a fevereiro de 2013, em 432 parcelas de 4,0 x 2,25 m, em uma área de 3 ha, seguindo o protocolo rápido de coleta, observando-se a serrapilheira, e até 30 cm de profundidade no solo. Obtiveram-se 18 espécies de Termitidae, Rhinotermitidae, Heterotermitinae, Syntermitinae, Apicotermitinae e Nasutitermitinae. Nos tratamentos com gotejamento, houve a maior frequência total, com presença de 18 espécies de cupins nos híbridos, sem associação significativa. A associação entre espécies de cupins e tratamentos constituiu quatro grupos. A precipitação e a umidade relativa do ar influenciaram significativamente na comunidade dos cupins. Portanto, a maior riqueza de espécies ocorreu nos tratamentos com gotejamento. Das espécies consideradas pragas de eucalipto, destacou-se Syntermes molestus, pela sua maior frequência durante as coletas. Ocorreu diferença significativa na distribuição das espécies de cupins associadas aos tratamentos entre os meses de coleta. A riqueza e a distribuição dos cupins são influenciadas ao longo do ano pelos diferentes manejos de irrigação em áreas de cultivo de eucalipto.

Efeito de um programa misto de intervenção nutricional e exercício físico sobre a composição corporal e os hábitos alimentares de mulheres obesas em climatério The effects of a mixed program of nutritional intervention and physical exercise on body composition and feeding habits of obese climacteric women

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Rita de Cássia de Assunção Monteiro

2004-12-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: Foi avaliar o efeito de programa misto de intervenção nutricional e exercício físico sobre a composição corporal e hábitos alimentares de mulheres obesas em climatério. MÉTODOS: Trabalhou-se com 2 grupos de 15 pessoas por 40 semanas: Grupo Dieta (intervenção nutricional e Grupo Exercício (intervenção nutricional e exercício. RESULTADO: As reduções do peso (-2,3kg para Grupo Dieta e -5,3kg para o Grupo Exercício e da circunferência da cintura (-4,8cm para Grupo Dieta e -7,6cm para Grupo Exercício, foram maiores para o Grupo Exercício. Foi verificada evolução positiva na classificação do Índice de Massa Corporal para ambos os grupos, sendo que o Grupo Exercício respondeu melhor ao tratamento. O padrão alimentar foi considerado monótono e com baixo consumo de alimentos regionais. CONCLUSÃO: O programa foi efetivo para perda de peso, em maior intensidade na presença de exercício. A educação alimentar proposta foi capaz de acarretar mudanças nos hábitos alimentares.OBJECTIVE: The effects of a mixed program of nutrition intervention and physical exercise on body composition and feeding habits were evaluated in obese climacteric women. METHODS: Thirty participants were randomly assigned in 2 groups during 40 weeks: Diet Group (nutritional intervention and Exercise Group (nutritional intervention and exercise. RESULTS: Weight reductions (Diet Group 2,3kg/Exercise Group -5,3kg and waist circunference (Diet Group -4,8cm/Exercise Group 7,6cm were greater in Exercise Group. A positive evolution was noticed in the Body Mass Index in both groups, with Exercise Group having better answer to treatment. It was observed a monotonous feeding pattern and low compliance to the consumption of regional typical foods. CONCLUSION: We concluded that the program was effective for weight loss at a higher intensity in the presence of exercise and the feeding education was able to modify the feeding habits.

Evaluation of Uncertainties in hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow analyses. Model calibration

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Ijiri, Yuji; Ono, Makoto; Sugihara, Yutaka; Shimo, Michito; Yamamoto, Hajime; Fumimura, Kenichi

2003-03-01

This study involves evaluation of uncertainty in hydrogeological modeling and groundwater flow analysis. Three-dimensional groundwater flow in Shobasama site in Tono was analyzed using two continuum models and one discontinuous model. The domain of this study covered area of four kilometers in east-west direction and six kilometers in north-south direction. Moreover, for the purpose of evaluating how uncertainties included in modeling of hydrogeological structure and results of groundwater simulation decreased with progress of investigation research, updating and calibration of the models about several modeling techniques of hydrogeological structure and groundwater flow analysis techniques were carried out, based on the information and knowledge which were newly acquired. The acquired knowledge is as follows. As a result of setting parameters and structures in renewal of the models following to the circumstances by last year, there is no big difference to handling between modeling methods. The model calibration is performed by the method of matching numerical simulation with observation, about the pressure response caused by opening and closing of a packer in MIU-2 borehole. Each analysis technique attains reducing of residual sum of squares of observations and results of numerical simulation by adjusting hydrogeological parameters. However, each model adjusts different parameters as water conductivity, effective porosity, specific storage, and anisotropy. When calibrating models, sometimes it is impossible to explain the phenomena only by adjusting parameters. In such case, another investigation may be required to clarify details of hydrogeological structure more. As a result of comparing research from beginning to this year, the following conclusions are obtained about investigation. (1) The transient hydraulic data are effective means in reducing the uncertainty of hydrogeological structure. (2) Effective porosity for calculating pore water velocity of

Customers` response to residential peak-activated pricing. Evidence from a Japanese experiment; Peak taio ryokinka ni okeru kateiyo juyoka no fuka chosei kodo no bunseki. Kansetsu fuka seigyo jikken data wo mochiita kakaku koka no sokutei

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Asano, H. [Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Tokyo (Japan)

1997-10-01

Demand side management through a pricing mechanism, that is the indirect load control was experimented to analyze the pricing effect. When power consumption in indirect load control groups is compared between peak time band in weekdays in summer and off-the-peak time band, the power is less consumed when price gap is set than in a uniform charge time. When more number of persons is in home in daytime, room cooling is used in daytime including the peak band to adjust the demand. The substitution elasticity in price between demands in the peak time band and the off-the-peak time band is from about 0.06 to 0.07, which cannot be ignored. If the peak price is increased by four times, the demand in the peak band can be reduced by about 0.15 kW (when average power demand per household is assumed 0.75 kW). For room cooling devices, the first device is often installed in a living room and the second and further units in individual rooms such as bed rooms. The more the number of device, the higher the possibility that the use time band is outside the peak time band. This indirect load control experiment is a field test related to the peak-activated pricing for small power users, by which the users` behavior against the pricing effect was identified quantitatively. 5 refs., 1 fig., 8 tabs.

Thermal structure of east and Southeast Asia. Comparison of results of Curie point depth analysis and heat flow data; Totonan Asia chiiki no ondo kozo. Curie ten shindo kaiseki kekka to chikaku netsu ryuryo tono hikaku

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Tanaka, A; Okubo, Y; Matsubayashi, O [Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba (Japan)

1997-10-22

This paper describes the distribution of Curie point depth and its characteristics determined from the spectral analysis of magnetic anomaly data in East and Southeast Asia. It also describes relationships between the Curie point depth and the other geophysical information such as topography, heat flow data and tectonics. The Curie point depths are shallower than about 10 km at volcanic and geothermal areas, between 15 and 25 km at island arcs and back arc rifts, deeper than 20 km at continents, and deeper than 30 km at trenches. The Curie point depth (Dc) estimated from the heat flow data can be expressed by Dc=k{theta}c/q where k is thermal conductivity, q is heat flow, and {theta}c is Curie point. Based on the Curie point depths obtained from Curie point depth analysis in the cross section of northeast Japan and the averaged values of heat flow at individual points, they are distributed along a line of k{theta}c=1500[Wm{sup -1}]. Values of k{theta}c are small near the axis of Japan trench and large in the northeast Japan. It is considered that local anomalies can not be grasped from the spectral analysis. 21 refs., 3 figs.

Leading European nations` policy toward new energy. Report on the regular interchange with energy-related organizations in Europe, fiscal 1997; Europe shuyokoku no shin energy seisaku. 1997 nendo Europe energy kanren kikan tono teiki koryu hokoku

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1997-09-01

This is a detailed report on a 2-week tour made in May, 1997, as part of the `9th regular interchange with energy-related organizations in Europe,` during which tour visits were paid to energy agencies and institutes of Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and France, and on-site investigations were conducted. The text describes, taking reference to a rich stock of data it carries, the nature, politics and economy, demand for energy, policy toward new energy, for each of the host countries. In the European countries, with the exception of France, efforts are being exerted to introduce new energy and to enhance its application, renewable energy in particular, in place of atomic power. The expectation they entertain toward new energy is far extensive than that of Japan which retains atomic power generation. Although wind power generation enjoys the overwhelming popularity over others, yet, in Germany and Sweden, it will be difficult for this technology to take the place of atomic power generation completely. As for photovoltaic power generation, not so much is expected from this technology as in Japan because of their climate and weather. 67 figs., 10 tabs.

Computation accuracy of flow conditions around a very large floating structure using a multi-layer model. Comparison with experimental results; Taso model ni yoru choogata futai mawari no ryukyo keisan seido ni tsuite. Jikken tono hikaku

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Kyotsuka, Y [Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan); Omori, H; Nakagawa, H; Kobayashi, M [Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1996-04-10

As one of the environmental problems in sea areas surrounding a very large floating structure (VLFS), change in flow condition is important, and it is one of the factors dominating the prediction of succeeding diffusion and ecosystems. Although a multi-layer model is in wide use for computation of flow condition and diffusion in one inner bay, its applicability should be reexamined because of no consideration of VLFSs. In this study, flow velocity profiles around a barge were then measured through the towing test of a barge in shallow water, and compared with computation results using a multi-layer model. The multi-layer model computed the flow velocity profiles by dividing the flow region to be computed into normal one and that under VLFS, and determined pressures under VLFS by 2-D Poisson`s equation. Slip condition was used as boundary condition at the bottom considering the number of layers under VLFS. Further numerical computation was conducted by 2-D MAC method, in particular, to compare flow around the wake of VLFS with experimental one. Both computation results well agreed with experimental one. 3 refs., 9 figs., 1 tab.

Japan prime s LNG utilization expansion and supply power analysis. ; Structuring mutual reliance relationship with project partners is urged. Nippon no LNG riyo kakudai to kyokyuryoku bunseki. ; Projectter dot partner kan no shinrai kankei no kochiku wo

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Sato, M [Mitsubishi Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

1991-10-01

The Brunei Project is a joint venture among the Brunei Government, Shell and Mitsubishi Shoji, but when its supply began in 1972, the share ownership has consisted of Mitsubishi Shoji and Shell at 45% respectively and the Brunei Government at 10%. The mutual reliance relationship among the project partners has been built gradually in such ways as Shell has built an agricultural vocational school inviting professors specialized in agriculture from England. Mitsubishi has created a large-scale cattle breeding business and produced beef cattles under the severe tropical environment, with an unfortunate result that the production cost did not balance with the market price. Recently, three Japanese agricultural engineers have succeeded at last producing tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuces through endeavors of vegetable production by means of hydroponic processes. The Brunei Goverment is also planning to cultivate fish and shells. Meanwhile the voices from the working site stress strongly that the operation has been continued with the safety-first concept at all times.

Improvement of the detection limits in radio-frequency-powered glow discharge optical emission spectrometry associated with bias-current conduction method; Jiko bias denryu donyuho ni yoru koshuha glow hoden hakko bunseki ni okeru kenshutsu genkai no kaizen

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Wagatsuma, K. [Tohoku University, Sendai (Japan). Research Institute for Materials

1999-01-01

A d.c. bias current driven by the self-bias voltage which is conducted through the r.f.-powered glow discharge plasma varies the emission characteristics drastically, leading to improvement of the detection power in the optical emission spectrometry. By conducting the bias currents of 20-30 mA, the emission intensities of the atomic resonance lines were 10-20 times larger than those obtained with conventional r.t.- powered plasmas. The detection limits for determination of alloyed elements in the re-based binary alloy samples were estimated to be l.6 x 10{sup -3}% Cr for CrI 425.43nm, 7 x 10{sup -4}% Mn for MnI 403.10nm, 1.9>10{sup -3}% Cu for CuI 327.40nm, 1.1 x 10{sup -3}% Al for AlI 396.16nm, and 6.6 x 10{sup -3}% Ni for NiI 352.45 nm. (author)

Distribution of strong ground motion from uppermost crustal structure. Comparison with disaster from the Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake; Yaya fukai chika kozo no henka ni yoru kyoshindo bunpu. Hyogoken nanbu jishin ni yoru higai bunpu tono hikaku

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Zhao, Z; Okubo, R [Kawasaki Geological Engineering Co. Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)

1997-10-22

It was intended to elucidate characteristics of distribution of damages caused by an earthquake which occurs directly below an urban area. Therefore, numerical simulation using the pseudo-spectral method was performed on characteristics of seismic wave propagation in non-homogenous media composed of rock beds and sediment beds, and of seismic wave amplitudes on ground surface. The simulation has utilized information on underground structures disclosed by using the latest physical exploration method. The underground structure model assumed a two-dimensional model hypothesizing presence of upper, middle and lower beds in the Osaka bed group on granite, using as reference the information on S-wave velocity underground structure revealed by the microtremor exploration method. With an objective to elucidate characteristics of distribution of collapse ratio in the area from 8-chome, Okamoto, Higashinada Ward, Kobe City to 2-chome of Sakanasaki Minamicho, as damages suffered from the Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake, a simulation has been performed varying the structure model based on the results derived by the microtremor exploration method and the reflection method. As a result, it was shown that the characteristics of the maximum amplitude distribution of displacement of ground surface, velocity and acceleration agree well with those of the collapse ratio distribution, and that the simulation using the pseudo-spectral method is an effective means to analyze the ground surface collapse ratio distribution. 5 refs., 3 figs.

FY 2000 report on the project for research cooperation in the spread of the results of the analysis of effects of technology development; 2000 nendo kenkyu kyoryoku jigyo. Gijutsu kaihatsu koka bunseki seika fukyu ni kansuru kenkyu kyoryoku

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The Japan-China joint research and seminar were conducted which were titled 'The technological/economic approach for realization of a harmony of energy/environment/economy in China in a period of transition of the system and the study of the spread of the results.' In the study of the policy for development of small/medium enterprises in China, discussions were made on the stage of the development of small/medium enterprises in China, consideration of the credit guarantee system for small/medium enterprises, and the present situation of the credit evaluation of small/medium enterprises. In the study of the economy rule/regulation system of China, problems in the legal system that China are faced with by joining WTO and the measures to be taken therefor, study of the product quality law in China, study of the competition law system in China, and study of the environmental protection law. In the study of the control of enterprises in China, the environmental accounting in China. In the study of the measures to be taken to promote the inland region of China, the finance support system for great development of the west, and the study of the relation between the water source in the dry region of northwest China and the sustainable economic growth. Further discussed was the study of the intellectual property right system in China. (NEDO)

FY 2000 report on the project for research cooperation in the spread of the results of the analysis of effects of technology development; 2000 nendo kenkyu kyoryoku jigyo. Gijutsu kaihatsu koka bunseki seika fukyu ni kansuru kenkyu kyoryoku

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The Japan-China joint research and seminar were conducted which were titled 'The technological/economic approach for realization of a harmony of energy/environment/economy in China in a period of transition of the system and the study of the spread of the results.' In the study of the policy for development of small/medium enterprises in China, discussions were made on the stage of the development of small/medium enterprises in China, consideration of the credit guarantee system for small/medium enterprises, and the present situation of the credit evaluation of small/medium enterprises. In the study of the economy rule/regulation system of China, problems in the legal system that China are faced with by joining WTO and the measures to be taken therefor, study of the product quality law in China, study of the competition law system in China, and study of the environmental protection law. In the study of the control of enterprises in China, the environmental accounting in China. In the study of the measures to be taken to promote the inland region of China, the finance support system for great development of the west, and the study of the relation between the water source in the dry region of northwest China and the sustainable economic growth. Further discussed was the study of the intellectual property right system in China. (NEDO)

FY 1980 Report on results of research and development project, commissioned by Sunshine Project. Analysis and evaluation of coal liquefied oil, and development of its applications; 1980 nendo sekitan ekikayu no bunseki hyoka to yoto kaihatsu seika hokokusho

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1981-03-01

This report summarizes the results of the first year of the 5-year survey/research project for analysis/evaluation of coal-liquefied oil, structural analysis and development of its applications. The program for analysis/evaluation of coal-liquefied oil includes surveys on the analytical methods for liquefied coal, which are compared with those for oil products, elementary analysis of the ashes in SRC, binder performance tests, and extraction of the problems to be solved for proposal of the analytical methods for coal-liquefied oil. The program for structural analysis includes that of coal-liquefied oil fractionated into middle distillate, fuel oil asphalt and pitches, configurations of a large-size liquefaction process, and characteristics of the oil produced thereby, and some examples of structural analysis are reported. The molecular species and compositions are determined for the middle distillate fraction.. The fuel oil shows average structures of diversified mixtures. The program for developing applications of coal-liquefied oil includes extraction of the problems anticipated when it is used as fuel, technical/economic evaluation of the upgrading techniques, and results and evaluation of conversion of the oil into stocks for chemicals. (NEDO)

Survey report for fiscal 1999. Evaluation and analysis on items applied for in high-performance industrial furnace introduction field test project in fiscal 1999; 1999 nendo koseino kogyoro donyu field test jigyo chosa hokokusho. Obo anken hyoka bunseki

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This paper describes comprehensive evaluation and analysis mainly on the 51 items adopted in the high-performance industrial furnace introduction field tests. The development of a high-performance industrial furnace has completed the fundamental development research in fiscal 1998, and the possibility was verified on energy saving of more than 30% and reduction of NOx emission by 50% over that by conventional furnaces. Upon this fundamental achievement, the field test project has started as the comprehensive approach to developing the practically usable technologies for three years from fiscal 1998 until fiscal 2000, which is being promoted as a joint research project. According to the survey on the actual state in fiscal 1998, a little less than 20,000 industrial furnaces having combustion capacity of more than 500,000 Kcal/hr (excepting boilers) are being used. If these furnaces are converted into the high-performance industrial furnace, energy conservation of 210,000 x 10{sup 6} Mcal (converted to crude oil of 22.7 x 10{sup 6} kl/year) can be achieved from the maximum annual energy consumption of 700,000 x 10{sup 6} Mcal (converted to crude oil of 75.7 x 10{sup 6} kl/year). This conservation amount corresponds to about 12% of the final energy consumption in the whole Japanese industrial departments in fiscal 1996. It is expected that the performance of the full-size high-performance industrial furnace will be verified, and this technology will be promoted for wide proliferation. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1997 research report. International energy use rationalization project (Analytical tool research project for energy consumption efficiency improvement in Asia); 1997 nendo kokusai energy shiyo gorika taisaku jigyo chosa hokokusho. Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo

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1998-05-01

The project aims to prepare inter-industry relations tables and models for energy analysis for Asian countries and thereby to probe into relations between the industrial structure or the ultimate consumption structure and energy consumption. For the comprehension of energy consumption as broken by each industry, Asian nations' inter-industry relations tables and energy statistics are linked for the compilation of energy analysis oriented inter-industry relations tables, and the resultant tables are used for the metric analysis of industrial structures and energy consumption structures in these countries. The tables prepared this time are 1985 tables for Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines and 1990 tables for China, Singapore, and Malaysia. The Malaysian transportation sector needs to be improved in energy saving. In Singapore, energy saving is functioning effectively in the transportation sector. China's energy consuming industries are those involving coal, chemistry, steelmaking, ceramics, and earth and quarrying. In Taiwan, improvement needs to be made in the transportation sector. Korea should conserve energy in the transportation sector. In the Philippines, energy needs to be saved in businesses related to water supply, transportation, and fishery. Thai industries as a whole needs to save energy. Improved energy consumption efficiency is sought for in the Indonesian cement related sector. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1997 research report. International energy use rationalization project (Analytical tool research project for energy consumption efficiency improvement in Asia); 1997 nendo kokusai energy shiyo gorika taisaku jigyo chosa hokokusho. Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo

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1998-05-01

The project aims to prepare inter-industry relations tables and models for energy analysis for Asian countries and thereby to probe into relations between the industrial structure or the ultimate consumption structure and energy consumption. For the comprehension of energy consumption as broken by each industry, Asian nations' inter-industry relations tables and energy statistics are linked for the compilation of energy analysis oriented inter-industry relations tables, and the resultant tables are used for the metric analysis of industrial structures and energy consumption structures in these countries. The tables prepared this time are 1985 tables for Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines and 1990 tables for China, Singapore, and Malaysia. The Malaysian transportation sector needs to be improved in energy saving. In Singapore, energy saving is functioning effectively in the transportation sector. China's energy consuming industries are those involving coal, chemistry, steelmaking, ceramics, and earth and quarrying. In Taiwan, improvement needs to be made in the transportation sector. Korea should conserve energy in the transportation sector. In the Philippines, energy needs to be saved in businesses related to water supply, transportation, and fishery. Thai industries as a whole needs to save energy. Improved energy consumption efficiency is sought for in the Indonesian cement related sector. (NEDO)

Effects of Mie tip-vane on pressure distribution of rotor blade and power augmentation of horizontal axis wind turbine; Yokutan shoyoku Mie ben ni yoru suiheijiku fusha yokumenjo no atsuryoku bunpu no kaizen to seino kojo tono kankei

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Shimizu, Y.; Maeda, T.; Kamada, Y. [Mie Univ., Mie (Japan); Seto, H. [Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Tokyo (Japan)

2000-04-01

By recent developments of exclusive rotor blade, the efficiency of wind turbine is improved substantially. By measuring pressure on rotor blades of horizontal axis wind turbines rotating in wind tunnels, this report clarified relation between improvement of pressure distribution on main rotor blades by Mie vane and upgrade of wind turbine performance. The results under mentioned have been got by measuring pressure distribution on rotor blades, visualization by tuft, and measuring resistance of Mie vane. (1) The difference of pressure between suction surface and pressure surface on the end of rotor blade increase, and output power of wind turbine improves. (2) Vortex of blade end is inhibited by Mie vane. (3) The reason of reduction on wind turbine performance with Mie vane in aria of high rotating speed ratio is the increase of Mie vane flow resistance.(NEDO)

Relationship between the electric resistivity and the rain fall in discontinuity zone of rock slope by the continuous measurement; Renzoku tokei ni yoru ganban shamen no furenzokutaibu ni okeru mikake hiteiko henka to kou tono kankei ni tsuite

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Kusumi, H; Nishida, K [Kansai University, Osaka (Japan). Faculty of Engineering; Nakamura, M [Newjec Inc., Osaka (Japan)

1996-10-01

The relationship between change in resistivity and rainfall was studied by continuously measuring resistivities of fracture zone and stratum boundary along the measuring line of 95m long from the top to bottom of rock slope. The measurement field was located on a hill of 150-200m high at the northern part of Arima-Takatsuki tectonic line. Electrodes of 30m in maximum measuring depth were arranged at 289 points by dipole-dipole method. Resistivity was continuously measured at time intervals of 6 hours. Apparent resistivity was hardly affected by rainfall at points with less infiltration of stormwater from the ground surface, while it decreased by rainfall at points on fracture zone, stratum boundary or bleeding channel. The change rate of apparent resistivity could be approximated with the exponential function of rainfall. In such case, the apparent resistivity under most dried condition at the concerned point should be used as reference maximum apparent resistivity. The change rate of apparent resistivity due to rainfall in fracture zone reflects infiltration of stormwater, suggesting to be useful for disaster prevention of slopes. 5 refs., 6 figs.

El olivar andaluz y sus transformaciones recientes

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Sánchez Martínez, José Domingo

2011-06-01

Full Text Available The olive grove in Andalusia suffered critical moments during the 20th century, and it was considered like a «culture problem» in the decades preceding the incorporation of Spain in the current European Union. Since then olive grove has known an exceptional economic conjuncture, like express his enormous superficial expansion or his notable productivity. In this work we approach the reasons that explain the consolidation of one of the most typical monocultures of southern Spain, indicating the diversity of situations that coexist under a seemingly monotonous landscape and analyzing some cases that can well illustrate the set of changes experienced since 1986.

El olivar andaluz sufrió momentos críticos a lo largo del siglo XX, hasta el punto de ser considerado como un «cultivo problema» durante las décadas que precedieron a la incorporación de España en la actual Unión Europea. Desde entonces ha conocido una coyuntura económica excepcional, como atestiguan su enorme expansión superficial y el notable incremento de sus rendimientos. En este trabajo nos acercamos a las causas que explican la consolidación de uno de los monocultivos más característicos del sur peninsular, señalando la diversidad de situaciones que conviven bajo un paisaje aparentemente monótono y analizando algunos casos que pueden ilustrar bien el conjunto de cambios experimentados desde 1986. [fr] La culture de l’olivier andalou a connu des moments critiques tout au long du XXème siècle, au point d’être considérée comme une «culture problème» pendant les décennies qui ont précédé l’entrée de l’Espagne dans l’Union européenne. Dès lors, l’oliveraie a vécu une conjoncture économique exceptionnelle, sa forte expansion superficielle et l’augmentation remarquable de ses rendements en sont témoins. Cet article explique les causes de la consolidation d’une des monocultures les plus caractéristiques du sud de la péninsule Ib

Phytochemical Evaluation of Wild and Cultivated Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. and C. pubescens Ruiz & Pav. from Oaxaca, Mexico Evaluación Fitoquímica en Chile (Capsicum annuum L. and C. pubescens Ruiz & Pav. Silvestre y Cultivado en Oaxaca, México

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Araceli Minerva Vera-Guzmán

2011-12-01

Full Text Available Reports of the last decade show that some types of food and spices included in the human diet, such as pepper (Capsicum annuum L. can have a positive effect on human health. The Mexican pepper germplasm is poorly documented with regard to variety and the amount of phytochemical compounds that it contains. In the present study, the variation of phytochemical compounds was evaluated in nine fruit variants (morphotypes of wild and cultivated pepper grown in Oaxaca. ANOVA detected significant differences among pepper morphotypes and ripeness stages of fruits; vitamin C, total phenols, flavonoids, P-carotene, coordinated chromatic of color, and capsaicinoids. The highest values of vitamin C were found in 'Tabaquero', 'Guero' and 'Costeño' morphotypes (151.6 to 183.2 mg 100 g-1. With regard to total phenols and flavonoids, 'Piquín' and 'Solterito' had the highest levels. Coordinates of color a* and b*, and chroma presented a positive correlation with phenol and flavonoid contents. The evaluated morphotypes differed in capsaicin and dihydrocapsaicin; C. annuum had higher capsaicin content (4.9 to 142 /En la última década, se reportó que el consumo de ciertos alimentos y especias, como el chile (Capsicum annuum L., pueden tener un efecto positivo en la salud. Particularmente, los acervos genéticos mexicanos de chile están poco documentados en relación a la diversidad desde la perspectiva fitoquímica. En este trabajo se evaluó la variación de compuestos fitoquímicos en nueve morfotipos de chile silvestres y cultivados de Oaxaca. El ANDEVA detectó diferencias significativas entre morfotipos y estados de madurez en vitamina C, fenoles, flavonoides, P-caroteno, color, y capsaicinoides. Los valores más altos de vitamina C se determinaron en 'Tabaquero', 'Guero' y 'Costeño' (151.6 a 183.2 mg 100 g-1. En fenoles y flavonoides sobresalieron los tipos 'Piquin' y 'Solterito'. Las coordenadas cromáticas a* y b*, y los tonos (C* se correlacionaron

Wall paintings in Castvlo. First contributions to the characterization of materials and techniques | Las pinturas murales de Castulo. Primeras aportaciones a la caracterización de materiales y técnicas de ejecución

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Teresa López Martínez

2016-12-01

Full Text Available This article sets forth the research carried out on the wall paintings of the “Sala del Mosaico de los Amores” in the archaeological site of Castulo, located in Linares (province of Jaén. The research in 2011 discovered a room with high-quality wall and mosaic decoration, especially on its western wall, which had collapsed over the pavement. It was moved to the laboratories of the University of Granada for consolidation and restoration works. Since previous information on wall paintings from Castulo was scarce, before the restoration took place the paintings were studied, including the characterization of the materials and painting techniques. These tests identified a very rich pictorial layer, consisting of green, red, ochre, white and black tones, among which some high-quality pigments stand out, such as the Egyptian blue, together with others that usually appear in the Roman palette, as red lead, red ochres, bone-black or calcium carbonate. | En este artículo se presenta la investigación que se está llevando a cabo sobre las pinturas murales de la Sala del Mosaico de los Amores en el Conjunto Arqueológico de Castulo, en Linares (Jaén. Durante la campaña efectuada en el año 2011, se descubrió una estancia que albergaba una decoración musivaria y parietal de gran calidad datada en el s. I-II d.C. Parte de esa decoración parietal, concretamente la correspondiente al muro oeste, fue encontrada derrumbada sobre el pavimento, y trasladada a los laboratorios de la Universidad de Granada para su intervención de consolidación y restauración. Dado que apenas existía información sobre pintura mural en Castulo, se está realizando un estudio de las pinturas, en el que se está llevando a cabo la caracterización de materiales y de su técnica de ejecución, como paso previo a su restauración. Estos análisis han permitido identificar una capa pictórica muy rica, constituida por tonos verdes, rojos, ocres, blancos y negros, entre los

Ocorrência de raiva em ovinos no Rio Grande do Sul Occurrence of rabies in sheep in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Daniel R. Rissi

2008-10-01

Full Text Available Descreve-se a ocorrência de raiva em ovinos na região Central do Rio Grande do Sul em novembro de 2003. Foram afetados dois ovinos de raça mista, um macho de três meses e uma fêmea de 2,5 anos de idade que apresentaram sinais clínicos com evolução de cinco dias e caracterizados por dificuldade de locomoção, tremores musculares, decúbito lateral, convulsões, opistótono e febre. Histologicamente havia mielomeningoencefalite não-supurativa, associada a inclusões eosinofílicas intracitoplasmáticas (corpúsculos de Negri em neurônios nos dois ovinos afetados. Em um ovino em que o gânglio de Gasser foi examinado, havia ganglionite não-supurativa. As lesões concentravam-se predominantemente na substância cinzenta da medula espinhal, no tronco encefálico e no cerebelo. Antígeno viral foi detectado em seções selecionadas de ponte e bulbo submetidas ao teste de imuno-histoquímica utilizando anticorpo policlonal anti-ribonucleoproteína do vírus da raiva. Os casos ocorreram em meio a um surto de raiva bovina transmitida por morcegos e foram considerados, com bases epidemiológicas, como transmitidos da mesma forma, como ocorre na raiva endêmica de bovinos no Rio Grande do Sul.Cases of rabies in sheep occurring in November 2003, in central Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, are described. A 3-month-old male, and a 2.5-month-old female sheep were affected. Clinical signs were characterized by abnormal gait, trembling, lateral recumbency, convulsion, opisthotonus, and fever. Histological findings included a non-suppurative myelomeningoencephalitis associated with intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusion (Negri bodies in neurons. Lesions were predominantly observed in gray matter of the spinal cord, brainstem and cerebellum. There was non-suppurative Gasserian ganglionitis in one sheep in which this structure was examined. Immunohistochemistry using rabies virus ribonucleoprotein polyclonal antibody yelded positive result in brain

LE CORBUSIER: CONCURSOS Y PALACIOS / Le Corbusier: competitions and palaces

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Fernando Zaparaín Hernández

2012-11-01

Full Text Available RESUMEN Cuando Le Corbusier ya había pasado de los cuarenta años se enfrentó a dos concursos internacionales: el Palacio de las Naciones en Ginebra (1926–31 y el Palacio de los Soviets en Moscú (1931–32 con los que intentaba acceder a grandes encargos de estado con mayor escala urbana en los que poner a prueba su ideario moderno sobre arquitectura y urbanismo. En ambos casos estuvo entre los vencedores pero por conveniencia e indecisión, los poderes políticos optaron por soluciones academicistas. Al conocer las decisiones definitivas, Le Corbusier y todos sus contactos del Movimiento Moderno orquestaron diversas polémicas ante los medios de comunicación y los gobernantes por entender que el progreso se veía lastrado por el triunfo de propuestas reaccionarias. Mediante el estudio de la correspondencia con personas particulares como Moser, Giedion, Colly o Stonorov, conservada en la Fundación Le Corbusier, se analizan las relaciones y el tono ideológico en torno a aquellas protestas. En esos textos quedan reflejados los principales rasgos que caracterizan la modernidad como su internacionalización, la seguridad en la propia misión, la defensa de lo nuevo o el método dialéctico. SUMMARY When Le Corbusier had already passed the age of forty he confronted two international competitions: the Palais des Nations in Geneva (1926–1931 and the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow (1931–32, with which he attempted to access large state commissions, with greater urban scale, in which to test his ideas about modern architecture and urbanism. In both cases he was among the winners, but through convenience and indecision the political powers opted for solutions from academicians. Upon knowing the final decisions, Le Corbusier and all his contacts in the Modern Movement orchestrated several controversies with the media, and the people in power, to convey that progress seemed burdened by the triumph of reactionary proposals. The relationships

El trovo verde. Poesía improvisada satírico-obscena en la fiesta de la cosecha

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del Campo Tejedor, Alberto

2007-12-01

Full Text Available Harvest time has been since Upper Antiquity an exceptional occasion in peasant societies, giving rise to festive customs such as duels of improvised poetry in obscene tone and motif. In these duels, precepts of decency were momentarily removed. The historical and comparative research since the fescennini verses of Antiquity, through the pullas of the trovadores de repente of the Golden Age and other satirical genres, allows to link the priapic improvised poetry of the Alpujarra in both reaping and grape harvest contexts to a long popular tradition in which debates of burlesque verses were an entertainment associated with the nexus between fertility of earth and sexuality and with a sense of regeneration that has cathartic laugh. The survival of this burlesque and erotic register among the Alpujarra troubadours in certain festivals, coincidental in dates, spaces and actors with the traditional context of licenses during harvest time, suggests the reusing of these duels of inventiveness, in which participants play recalling a time when

Las cosechas han constituido desde antiguo un momento excepcional en las culturas campesinas y han propiciado costumbres festivas, como las luchas de poesías improvisadas de tono y temática obscena, en que se levantaba efímeramente el precepto del decoro. El rastreo histórico y comparativo desde los versos fesceninos de la Antigüedad, pasando por las pullas de los trovadores de repente en el Siglo de Oro y otros géneros satíricos, permite vincular el trovo priápico de la Alpujarra en contextos de siega, parva y vendimia, a una larga tradición popular en que las porfías de versos burlescos constituían un divertimento asociado al nexo de unión entre la fertilidad de la tierra y la sexualidad, así como al sentido regenerador de la risa catártica. La pervivencia en el trovo alpujarreño de este registro burlón y lúbrico en ciertas fiestas coincidentes en fechas

Manifestações neurológicas na intoxicação de lactentes pela associação dimeticona e homatropina: relato de 6 casos Neurological manifestations in the intoxication of infants by dimethicone plus homatropine: report of 6 cases

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Vicente José Assencio-Ferreira

2001-06-01

Full Text Available OBJETIVO: alertar que o uso da associação dimeticona/homatropina (Espasmo Luftal® em recém-nascidos e lactentes de até dois meses, pode causar episódios disfuncionais transitórios extrapiramidais. MÉTODO: relato de 6 casos de crianças com menos de 2 meses, em uso diário da associação dimeticona/homatropina, que apresentaram sintomas agudos caracterizados por crises repetidas de curta duração com desvio tônico da cabeça para trás (opistótono, desvio do olhos para cima com olhar fixo e expressão de terror, postura mantida em hipertonia extensora dos 4 membros e emissão de choro e/ou sons guturais. RESULTADOS: os sintomas extrapiramidais desapareceram (e não retornaram após a suspensão da associação dimeticona/homatropina. Não foram constatadas anormalidades no exame neurológico, eletrencefalograma e provas sanguíneas. CONCLUSÕES: a associação dimeticona/homatropina pode determinar em crianças com menos de 2 meses, quadro disfuncional dos gânglios da base. É importante diferenciá-lo das crises epilépticas generalizadas, a fim de se evitar a utilização, errônea, de drogas antiepilépticas.OBJECTIVE: to alert that use of dimethicone plus homatropine in infants up to two months, may cause episodes of transitory extrapyramidal disturbances. METHOD: report 6 infants up to two months old, in daily use of dimethicone plus homatropine, that presented typical symptoms of the basal ganglia dysfunction, characterized by repeated crisis of short duration with tonic back shift of the head (opisthotonos, deviation of the eyes upward with looking fixed and terror expression, maintained in extending hipertonia posture of the 4 members and cry and/or guttural sounds emission. RESULTS: the extrapyramidal symptoms disappeared (and did not return after interruption of dimethicone plus homatropine. Abnormalities were not verified in neurological examination, EEG and blood tests. CONCLUSIONS: the associated dimethicone

A comparative study of the safety and efficacy effect of 5-fluorouracil or mitomycin C mounted biological delivery membranes in a rabbit model of glaucoma filtration surgery.

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Wu, Zhihong; Li, Shuning; Wang, Ningli; Liu, Wanshun; Liu, Wen

2013-01-01

To investigate the potential usage of biological delivery membranes containing mitomycin C (MMC) or 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in the construction of glaucoma-filtering blebs, and to evaluate their safety and efficacy. Chitosan was selected as the biological membrane carrier to prepare sustained-released membranes. Twelve micrograms of 5-FU or MMC was covalently conjugated onto the membranes by solvent volatilization. Rabbits underwent glaucoma filtration surgery and were randomly allocated into one of the four treatment regimens: glaucoma filtration operation with no implantation of chitosan membrane group (as control), drug-free chitosan membrane implantation group (blank/placebo group), membrane containing 5-FU treatment group (5-FU group), and membrane containing MMC treatment group (MMC group). Each group consisted of 12 rabbits. Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured and evaluated over a 28-day period follow-up preoperatively, then after surgery on days 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 by Tono-Pen. The aqueous humor was analyzed in each experimental and control groups at days 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 after operation. Bleb survival and anterior segment were examined with a slit lamp microscope and photographed simultaneously. Two rabbits from each group were killed on day 28 and eight eye samples obtained for histopathological study. Corneas and lenses were examined by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Both 5-FU and MMC significantly prolonged bleb survival compared with control groups. The filtering bleb's survival period was significantly more prolonged in the MMC and 5-FU groups (maintained 14 days) than the other two groups (maintained 7 days). Significantly lower IOP was observed within the control, blank, and 5-FU groups after surgery on day 14 compared with that before operation, with F-values of 6.567, 11.426, and 13.467, respectively (P < 0.01). The most significant lower IOP was recorded in the MMC group on day 28 postoperation (F-value 26

Variación de la coloración en poblaciones argentinas de Melanophryniscus rubriventris (Vellard, 1947

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Vaira, Marcos

2002-12-01

Full Text Available Tanto los patrones como el tono de la coloración dorsal y ventral han sido caracteres comúnmente utilizados para el reconocimiento y diferenciación de numerosas especies y subespecies del género de Bufonidae Melanophryniscus. Sin embargo, raramente se han presentado análisis detallados y sistematizados que indiquen la ausencia o la baja frecuencia de polimorfismos en estos caracteres para asegurar que son realmente diagnósticos. Mediante una metodología sistematizada se estableció la validez diagnóstica de estos caracteres para las poblaciones argentinas de Melanophryniscus rubriventris. La información obtenida en este trabajo, sugiere la existencia de poblaciones con variaciones morfológicas distintivas aunque no exclusivas y se propone que las actuales subespecies sean sinonimizadas. Dada la importante variabilidad registrada en los patrones de coloración de ejemplares conservados y de la intensidad de la coloración in vivo en todo el rango de distribución de Melanophryniscus rubriventris, así como la multiplicidad de fuentes de variabilidad que estos caracteres pueden expresar, se sugiere que el uso de la coloración como carácter diagnóstico único para la delimitación de especies sea utilizado con cierta precaución o empleando una metodología de muestreo rigurosa que contemple la edad, el sexo y la mayor cantidad posible de poblaciones en todo el rango de distribución del grupo a investigar. Both, patterns and hue of dorsal and ventral coloration were commonly utilized in species and subspecies recognition in the genus of Bufonidae Melanophryniscus. However, no detailed and systematized analysis were presented to determine if such characters are truly fixed. I determine the validity of these attributes as truly diagnostic characters in different populations of Melanophryniscus rubriventris of Argentina. The evidence obtained suggest the existence of sets of populations which differ only in trait frequencies and I

Seismic ACROSS Transmitter Installed at Morimachi above the Subducting Philippine Sea Plate for the Test Monitoring of the Seismogenic Zone of Tokai Earthquake not yet to Occur

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Kunitomo, T.; Kumazawa, M.; Masuda, T.; Morita, N.; Torii, T.; Ishikawa, Y.; Yoshikawa, S.; Katsumata, A.; Yoshida, Y.

2008-12-01

Here we report the first seismic monitoring system in active and constant operation for the wave propagation characteristics in tectonic region just above the subducting plate driving the coming catastrophic earthquakes. Developmental works of such a system (ACROSS; acronym for Accurately Controlled, Routinely Operated, Signal System) have been started in 1994 at Nagoya University and since 1996 also at TGC (Tono Geoscience Center) of JAEA promoted by Hyogoken Nanbu Earthquakes (1995 Jan.17, Mj=7.3). The ACROSS is a technology system including theory of signal and data processing based on the brand new concept of measurement methodology of Green function between a signal source and observation site. The works done for first generation system are reported at IWAM04 and in JAEA report (Kumazawa et al.,2007). The Meteorological Research Institute of JMA has started a project of test monitoring of Tokai area in 2004 in corporation with Shizuoka University to realize the practical use of the seismic ACROSS for earthquake prediction researches. The first target was set to Tokai Earthquake not yet to take place. The seismic ACROSS transmitter was designed so as to be appropriate for the sensitive monitoring of the deep active fault zone on the basis of the previous technology elements accumulated so far. The ground coupler (antenna) is a large steel-reinforced concrete block (over 20m3) installed in the basement rocks in order to preserve the stability. Eccentric moment of the rotary transmitter is 82 kgm at maximum, 10 times larger than that of the first generation. Carrier frequency of FM signal for practical use can be from 3.5 to 15 Hz, and the signal phase is accurately controlled by a motor with vector inverter synchronized with GPS clock with a precision of 10-4 radian or better. By referring to the existing structure model in this area (Iidaka et al., 2003), the site of the transmitting station was chosen at Morimachi so as to be appropriate for detecting the

Cintilografia miocárdica com estresse mental na investigação de dor torácica Centellograma miocárdico con estrés mental en la investigación de dolor torácico Radionuclide imaging of myocardium with mental stress in the investigation of thoracic pain

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Lívia Maria Lima da Silva

2009-10-01

Full Text Available A dor torácica é um sintoma comum nos serviços de emergência e a cintilografia de estresse representa uma das etapas da estratificação de risco nesses indivíduos. Entretanto, um grupo de pacientes com exames funcionais negativos após o estresse físico ou farmacológico desenvolve isquemia miocárdica durante estresse mental. As alterações do tônus vascular em resposta a mecanismos endógenos são a base fisiopatológica dessas alterações. Relata-se um caso que ilustra como a cintilografia de estresse mental tem o potencial para ser utilizada na avaliação de isquemia miocárdica, não detectada pelos métodos convencionais, em pacientes com suspeita de dor torácica isquêmica.El dolor torácico es un síntoma común en los servicios de emergencia y el centellograma de estrés representa una de las etapas de la estratificación de riesgo en estos individuos. No obstante, un grupo de pacientes con exámenes funcionales negativos después del estrés físico o farmacológico desarrolla isquemia miocárdica durante el estrés mental. Las alteraciones del tono vascular en respuesta a mecanismos endógenos son la base fisiopatológica de estas alteraciones. Se relata un caso que ilustra cómo el centellograma de estrés mental tiene potencial para ser utilizado en la evaluación de isquemia miocárdica, no detectada por los métodos convencionales, en pacientes con sospecha de dolor torácico isquémico.Thoracic pain is a common symptom in emergency services, and stress radionuclide imaging represents one of the phases of risk stratification in these individuals. However, a group of patients with negative functional exams after physical or pharmacological stress develops myocardial ischemia during this psychological stress. Alterations in vascular tonus as a response to endogenous mechanisms are the physiopathologic basis for such alterations. We report a case that illustrates how mental stress radionuclide imaging has the potential to

La obesidad y sus consecuencias clinicometabólicas Obesity and its clinical and metabolic consequences

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Lidia Esther Rodríguez Scull

2004-12-01

Full Text Available La obesidad constituye un serio problema de salud mundial. En las últimas 3 décadas se ha producido un incremento importante de la cifra de personas obesas al punto de alcanzar magnitud de epidemia y de lo que es más importante: sus consecuencias clinicometabólicas. La obesidad está vinculada estrechamente con las principales causas de morbimortalidad y discapacidad. La resistencia insulínica (RI es quizás su consecuencia más temible, ya que de ella se derivan una serie de alteraciones metabólicas y endoteliales relacionadas con el desarrollo de la enfermedad vacular coronaria: la diabetes mellitus, la hipertensión arterial, las dislipidemias y la enfermedad cerebrovascular. En la medida en que aumenta el peso corporal, aumenta la producción de citoquinas y ácidos grasos libres con efectos sobre la insulina, disminuye la sensibilidad a su acción y de ahí derivan alteraciones de la pared y el tono vascular, así como del metabolismo de glúcidos y lípidos, que dan origen a estas consecuencias. Con la presente revisión nos proponemos profundizar en el papel del adipocito como órgano o tejido endocrino, y los mecanismos hasta ahora conocidos que dan origen a las complicaciones clinicometabólicas de la obesidad.Obesity is a serious problem in world health. During the last three decades, there has been a significant increase of the figure of obese persons about to reach the magnitude of epidemics and of what is more important: its clinical and metabolic consequences. Obesity is closely linked to the main cause of morbimortality and disability: Insulin resitance is maybe its most feared consequence, since a series of metabolic and endothelial alterations related to the development of coronary vascular disease derived from it: diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, dyslipidemias and cerebrovascular disease. As body weight increases, the production of cytokines and free fatty acids with effects on insulin is higher, and the

Ensanchando los límites: Una aproximación desde la didáctica a la traducción literaria / Enlarging the limits: A didactic approach to literary translation

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Carlos FORTEA GIL

2012-03-01

Full Text Available La problemática fundamental de la traducción literaria ronda siempre en torno a su propia posibilidad, los límites y metas de la reflexión sobre ella y la capacidad de trasladar esa reflexión a la práctica. En este contexto, ha sido metodológicamente frecuente partir del texto meta, tratando de extraer premisas, métodos y procedimientos.Nuestro planteamiento inicial pretende ser el inverso: partir de la traducción misma, en su vertiente aplicada a la didáctica, para extraer del proceso traductor tutelado posibles conclusiones sobre la esencia del proceso y su generalización para la práctica. La finalidad sería extraer principios teóricos a partir de principios prácticos, reflexiones al hilo de dificultades recurrentes, apuntes sobre posibles marcas textuales que apuntan a formatos de resolución de problemas (calidad de los textos originales, concepto de fidelidad, tono, etc., entendidos siempre desde el punto de vista de lo verificable o señalable en concreto en los textos.El modesto objetivo de este artículo es llamar la atención con ejemplos sobre la peculiaridad de la didáctica de la traducción literaria como posible método de indagación en la traducción literaria misma.  The basic problem of literary translation lies in its very possibilities, in the limits and aims of all reflection on it, and in the capacity to shift this reflection to practice. In this context, the methodological starting point is normally the target text, from which premises, methods and procedures are extracted.In this paper, however, our aim is to take translation itself, as applied to didactics, as our starting point in order to extract from the supervised translating process possible conclusions regarding the essence of the process and its generalization for practice. The final aim is to extract theoretical principles based on practical principles, reflections on recurring difficulties, information about possible textual markers pointing to

Development of an instrument for direct ozone production rate measurements: measurement reliability and current limitations

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Sklaveniti, Sofia; Locoge, Nadine; Stevens, Philip S.; Wood, Ezra; Kundu, Shuvashish; Dusanter, Sébastien

2018-02-01

Ground-level ozone (O3) is an important pollutant that affects both global climate change and regional air quality, with the latter linked to detrimental effects on both human health and ecosystems. Ozone is not directly emitted in the atmosphere but is formed from chemical reactions involving volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) and sunlight. The photochemical nature of ozone makes the implementation of reduction strategies challenging and a good understanding of its formation chemistry is fundamental in order to develop efficient strategies of ozone reduction from mitigation measures of primary VOCs and NOx emissions. An instrument for direct measurements of ozone production rates (OPRs) was developed and deployed in the field as part of the IRRONIC (Indiana Radical, Reactivity and Ozone Production Intercomparison) field campaign. The OPR instrument is based on the principle of the previously published MOPS instrument (Measurement of Ozone Production Sensor) but using a different sampling design made of quartz flow tubes and a different Ox (O3 and NO2) conversion-detection scheme composed of an O3-to-NO2 conversion unit and a cavity attenuated phase shift spectroscopy (CAPS) NO2 monitor. Tests performed in the laboratory and in the field, together with model simulations of the radical chemistry occurring inside the flow tubes, were used to assess (i) the reliability of the measurement principle and (ii) potential biases associated with OPR measurements. This publication reports the first field measurements made using this instrument to illustrate its performance. The results showed that a photo-enhanced loss of ozone inside the sampling flow tubes disturbs the measurements. This issue needs to be solved to be able to perform accurate ambient measurements of ozone production rates with the instrument described in this study. However, an attempt was made to investigate the OPR sensitivity to NOx by adding NO inside the instrument

Dosimetry of 131I labeled metuximab and transarterial chemoembolization for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

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Ma Jun; Wang Jianhua; Liu Rong; Qian Sheng; Chen Yi; Shi Hongcheng; Gu Yusen

2009-01-01

Objective: Metuximab is a specific monoclonal antibody F(ab') fragment targeted to the hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) associated antigen of HAb18G/CD147. 131 I labeled metuximab has shown to be effective response on HCC in phase I/II trails. To evaluate the feasibility of 131 I-metuximab combined with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the treatment of HCC, the authors estimated the radiation absorbed dose to organs. Methods: 131 I-metuximab (27.75 MBq/kg) and the mixture of anticancer drug and Lipiodol with interval 20 min later were administered to 21 patients with HCC via a transfemoral catheter. The pharmacokinetic and dosimetric data were collected by means of venous blood samples, urine collections, and 4 or 5 γ-scintigraphies (SPECT) over 7 d. The total amount of activity in percent of injected activity (% ID) of main organ and the total body were calculated by regions of interest (ROI). The cumulated activities were determined from integration of the time-% ID curves using the SPSS 12.0 software. Absorbed doses to organ and red marrow were estimated according to the medical internal radiation dose (MIRD) formalism and blood-based marrow estimation with a red marrow-to-blood activity concentration ratio. The tumor- to-no tumor ratio was calculated as well. Results: A mean administered activity was 1.89 GBq per session (range 1.47-2.23 GBq). SPECT scans showed the significant accumulation of the radioconjugate in liver tumor and faint uptake in other organs until 14 d. Organ absorbed dose (n=12): the total absorbed dose to liver, spleen, thyroid, lungs, kidney and total-body was (3.19 ± 1.01), (3.65 ± 2.41), (3.61 ± 2.40), (0.97 ± 0.23), (0.96 ± 0.35) and (0.57 ± 1.55) Gy, with (0.55 ± 0.09) Gy to the red marrow (n=7), respectively. From 2.88 ± 1.11 to 1.64 ± 0.39 were observed in tumor-to-liver ratio at 3 h to 168 h. Conclusion: Internal absorbed dose estimation based on MIRD formalism is not only to establish re- liable dose

El Derecho Agrario en el Debate sobre el Género en el Campo: Oportunidades y Desafíos

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Rabah Belaidi

2016-10-01

Full Text Available La cuestión de género en el campo se presenta como un tema que no se ve con la profundidad requerida por el derecho puesto por el Estado en nuestro país. La investigación de este trabajo establece la realidad de las mujeres rurales brasileñas, de clase social baja, a cuestionar el contexto en el que el derecho agrario ayuda a reducir o perpetúa la desigualdad de género en el campo. Se trata de un análisis jurídico en un enfoque particular de la realidad de las mujeres rurales, sobre todo en tono crítico frente a sus dificultades en el acceso a los recursos agrícolas, extensión rural, a los créditos, a la tierra y permanecer en ella, entre otras condiciones que ofrecen las barreras a las actividades autónomas de las mujeres rurales. El objetivo es verificar el papel del derecho agrario en relación con las mujeres rurales e indicar, por medio de la crítica de la ciencia moderna y opresiva, debates necesarios sobre el destaque local y la invisibilidad socio-económica de las mujeres rurales, a partir de posibles enfoques ecofeministas. Por lo tanto, este estudio se estableció con la literatura, de acuerdo con el método deductivo de análisis. En un primer momento, es criticada la opresión patrocinada por el modelo hegemónico de la agricultura, con el fin de fomentar las prácticas de resistencia, especialmente ecofeministas. La falsa exención del derecho agrario en la cuestión de género en el campo, tras una posición a favor del capital. Después, hay contextualización del debate, para que exprese la relación entre el medio rural, el agronegocio, las dificultades de supervivencia que enfrentan las mujeres rurales y el derecho agrario, para relacionar la preocupación con el medio ambiente al feminismo y la necesidad de que el derecho del estado no perpetua la desigualdad de género y construya espacios abiertos de participación efectiva de la mujer rural en tiempos de toma de decisiones. Por último, nociones est

Fuel effect on solution combustion synthesis of Co(Cr,Al)2O4 pigments; Efecto del combustible en la síntesis de pigmentos Co(Cr,Al)2O4 por combustión de una disolución

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Gilabert, J.; Palacios, M.D.; Sanz, V.; Mestre, S.

2017-11-01

por los pigmentos, una vez introducidos en un esmalte cerámico transparente, muestra variaciones importantes por el efecto de la composición. Por el contrario, prácticamente no se aprecia el efecto del combustible, ya que se obtienen tonos de color similares entre las muestras. Sin embargo, sí es posible destacar cierto efecto sobre el componente responsable de la luminosidad.

Escribir con niñ@as: una posibilidad de coautoría en la investigación etnográfica / Writing with children: a chance of co-authorchip in etnoghaphic research

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Diana Milstein

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Este artículo muestra cómo dos grupos de niñ@s de una escuela primaria en una localidad del conurbano sur bonaerense, Argentina, participaron como interlocutores, entrevistadores, observadores y co-autores en el trabajo de campo etnográfico que realicé durante los años 2004 y 2005. Junto con l@s niñ@s editamos dos textos que contienen versiones de los “otros” y de los autores acerca de la localidad. Ambos reúnen de manera polifónica un conjunto de historias y comentarios de adultos, jóvenes, niños y niñas, de edades, procedencias, familias y ocupaciones diversas. Con un tono descriptivo y narrativo que incluye mapas dibujados por l@s niñ@s e imágenes fotografiadas, los textos ofrecen versiones inteligibles de la vida social local. Mediante la descripción del estos procesos de trabajo y de producción de los textos, desarrollo un análisis de las particularidades de la coautoría con estos niñ@s. Luego discuto aspectos relacionados con la capacidad de agenciamiento de l@s niñ@s en tanto intérpretes y autores y propongo modos innovadores y creativos de interactuar participativamente con l@s niñ@s, modos que también pueden impactar procesos educativos.Abstract This article shows how two groups of children of a primary school in a town in southern suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, were included as interlocutors, interviewers, observers and co-writers in my ethnographic fieldwork, during 2004 and 2005. We published two booklets with the children in cooperation. They contain versions of the "others" and of the authors about the town. Both of them brought together a polyphonic set of stories and comments, along with the opinions of adults, youths and children from various ages, origins, families and occupations. The booklets provide intelligible versions of local social life by using a descriptive and narrative style and include maps drawn by children and photographed images. I develop an analysis of the particularities of the

International measures project for rational energy use (Survey project of the analysis tool of Asian energy consumption efficiency). List of errata; 1998 nendo kokusai energy shiyo gorika nado taisaku jigyo seigohyo. Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo

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1999-03-01

The list of errata was prepared for the data book of the international measures project for rational energy use (Survey project of the analysis tool of Asian energy consumption efficiency). Corrected pages of the data book 1 (1990) are as follows: 187-190, 223-226, 259-262, 295- 298, 369-370, 387-388 and 405-406 on Malaysian data. Corrected pages of the data book 2 (1985) are as follows: 102-105 on Chinese data, 154 on common data, and 187-190, 223-226, 259-262, 295-298, 369-370, 387-388 and 405-406 on Malaysian data. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1998 research report. International measures project for rational energy use (Survey project of the analysis tool of Asian energy consumption efficiency); 1998 nendo chosa hokokusho. Kokusai energy shiyo gorika nado taisaku jigyo (Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo)

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1999-02-01

This project aims to prepare the inter-industry relations table and analysis model for energy analysis for every Asian country, and analyze the relation between energy consumption and industrial structure or final demand structure. The 1985 and 1990 inter-industry relations tables of each country were prepared in cooperation with the governmental organizations of China, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and India. However, the 1987 and 1990 tables were prepared for China. In fiscal 1998, the project invited the representatives of each concerned organization, and held the international workshop together with Japanese specialists to discuss various issues related to not only table preparation but also data analysis. The following items were analyzed for every country: a change in final energy consumption, a dependence on coal in primary energy consumption, transfer of energy consumption to other energy resources, and an energy consumption rate in the whole industry. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1997 research report. International energy use rationalization project (Analytical tool research project for energy consumption efficiency improvement in Asia); 1997 nendo kokusai energy shiyo gorika nado taisaku jigyo chosa hokokusho. Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo (honpen)

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1998-05-01

Efforts have been under way to prepare inter-industry relations tables and energy data for four Asian countries, namely, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, and a tool for energy consumption efficiency analysis has been developed and improved. In Chapter 1, energy supply and demand in the above-named four countries is reviewed on the basis of recent economic situations in these countries. In Chapter 2, bilateral inter-industry relations tables usable under the project are employed for the analysis of the economic status of each of the countries and energy transactions between them, and a method is described of converting the tables into one-nation inter-industry relations tables which meet the need of this project. In Chapter 3, national characteristics reflected on the respective energy input tables are described, and a method is shown of converting a nationally characterized unit energy table into a common unit energy input table for registration with a database. In Chapter 4, the constitution of the Asian energy consumption efficiency improvement analyzing tool and a system using the tool are explained. In Chapter 5, some examples of analyses conducted by use of the analyzing tool are shown, in which the energy saving effect and CO2 emission reduction effect are estimated for Indonesia by use of the analyzing tool. (NEDO)

Fiscal 1998 achievement report on regional consortium research and development project. Venture business fostering regional consortium--Creation of key industries (Development of a ultrahigh-sensitivity micro-integrated analyzing system); 1998 nendo chokokando micro shusekika bunseki system no kaihatsu seika hokokusho

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2000-03-01

Biotechnology and micro-machining technology are merged into the above-named system capable of high-speed high-precision clinical examination of trace specimens. In the development of element technologies indispensable for system construction, research and development is conducted of laser processing technology for integration, extremely weak signal detecting technology, micro-electrode manufacturing technology for micro-sensors, micro-contact printing technology, micro-sensors, integrated coatings and micro-columns, elucidation of blood flow characteristics in micro-scale elements, micro-integrated analyzing system control technology, etc. These element technologies are integrated for a success in the development of a micro-scale polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device which is necessary for the development of micro-integrated blood analyzing system for various blood components and for the demagnification of a gene analyzing system. Surveys etc. are conducted for the commercialization of the devices mentioned above. (NEDO)

Quantitative relationship between SAR and temperature rise inside eyeball in a realistic human heat model for 1.5 GHz-microwave exposure; 1.5GHz maikuroha wo abita tobu real model ni okeru gankyunai no hikyushuritsu to josho ondo tono teiryo kankei

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Takai, K.; Fujiwara, O. [Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya (Japan)

1997-12-20

For investigating biological effects of a localized SAR (specific absorption rate) deposited in a human body for electromagnetic wave exposure, it is indispensable to graps a temperature-rise inside a human brain including the control center for the body temperature. This paper numerically analyzes a temperature-rise inside an eyeball of our developed realistic head model for 1.5 GHz microwave exposure, using the FD-TD (finite-difference time-domain) method. The computed results are validated in comparison with the data obtained by Taflove and his colleague. In order to examine a quantitative relationship between the localized SAR and temperature-rise, we also obtained a tissue amount over which the localized SAR should be averaged so as to well reflect the temperature-rise distribution inside the eyeball. 15 refs., 9 figs., 3 tabs.

La langue de la Segunda partida

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Mónica CASTILLO LLUCH

2008-06-01

üe: una potencia anafórica del pronombre personal objeto de tercera persona superior en castellano medieval, comparable a la de un demostrativo – un fenómeno que encaja en la descripción teórica que se ha hecho de la historia del pronombre átono como un proceso de gramaticalización.

Estructura cristalina y propiedades de la solución sólida YCoXMn1-XO3

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Moure, C.

2002-02-01

Full Text Available Solid solutions corresponding to the YCoXMn1-XO3 system, x=0.2...0.7 have been studied. The powders were prepared by solid state reaction of the corresponding oxides. Sintered bodies were obtained by firing between 1250 and 1350ºC. The incorporation of 25 at% Co2+ to the yttrium manganite induces the appearance of a perovskite-type phase with orthorhombic symmetry and Space Group Pbnm, which is extended at least up to an amount of x=0.70. Increase of the Co content from x=0.25 to x=0.70 leads to a monotonic decrease of the orthorhombicity factor b/a. Electrical measurements have shown semiconducting behaviour for all the solid solutions with the perovskite-type structure. The room temperature conductivity increases with Co up to x=0.33, and then decreases. The 60/40 Co/Mn composition shows an increase of the electrical conductivity respect to the 50/50 and a correlative decrease of the activation energy. Small polaron hopping mechanism thermally activated controls the conductivity of these ceramics.Se han estudiado las soluciones sólidas correspondientes al sistema YCoXMn1-XO3 con x=0.2...0.7. Los polvos fueron preparados por reacción en estado sólido de los correspondientes óxidos. Se obtuvieron cerámicas sinterizadas densas por sinterización entre 1250º y 1350ºC. La incorporación de ~25 átomos % de Co a la manganita de itrio induce la aparición de una fase de tipo perovsquita, con simetría ortorrómbica y Grupo Espacial (G.E. Pbnm, que se extiende al menos hasta valores de x=0.70. El aumento del contenido de Co desde x=0.25 hastax=0.70 lleva a un decrecimiento monótono del factor de ortorrombicidad b/a. Las medidas eléctricas han demostrado el comportamiento semiconductor de todas las soluciones sólidas con estructura de perovsquita. La conductividad a temperatura ambiente aumenta con Co hasta un valor de x=0.33 para después decrecer para mayores contenidos. La composición 60/40, Co/Mn muestra un aumento de la conductividad y

Análisis de las implicancias del vínculo afectivo en el desarrollo motor y cognitivo de niños con parálisis cerebral

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Maria Noelia Turchetti Iturrieta

2016-12-01

Full Text Available El desarrollo del niño está íntimamente ligado a los procesos de maduración del Sistema Nervioso Central (SNC, fundamentalmente en lo que se refiere a las funciones psicomotoras. Dentro de las alteraciones del SNC se encuentra la Parálisis Cerebral (PC, entendida como trastorno del tono postural y del movimiento, secundario a una lesión del cerebro inmaduro. La necesidad de la experiencia sensorial y el ejercicio motor es una premisa básica para el desarrollo infantil típico, haciéndose aún más necesaria en el niño con PC.La estimulación de las funciones motoras y cognitivas, debe darse en el marco de un vínculo de afecto con el niño con PC, a fin de establecer un clima de confianza que permita al niño trabajar junto al psicólogo en pos de su desarrollo. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar las implicancias del vínculo afectivo en el desarrollo motor y cognitivo de niños con PC, de entre 4 y 6 años de edad. Metodológicamente los datos son tratados cualitativamente, se trata de un estudio de casos seleccionados de forma intencional: se toman dos pacientes en tratamiento psicológico desde temprana edad, de una institución privada dedicada al abordaje interdisciplinario de las patologías de la infancia. Los pacientes designados presentan diagnóstico de P.C, de distinta complejidad, se comparan los sentimientos de los niños y su psicoterapeuta, durante su interrelación. Se utilizan como instrumentos para el relevamiento de datos, observación de la sesión psicológica y entrevista semidirigida a psicoterapeuta infantil. Entre los resultados se destacan la relación de la vulnerabilidad física y psíquica del niño con PC, siendo la desvitalización anímica, de la que habla Jorge Cantis, mayor en el paciente con diagnóstico de PC grave o severa. En relación al psicoterapeuta, se observa la necesidad de estar atento a sus sentimientos, para no identificarse con los sentimientos del paciente con P.C y/o de su

Respuesta mecánica durante la inversión de la deformación en caliente de un acero microaleado

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Badiola, D. J.

2005-08-01

Full Text Available The mechanical behaviour of a Nb-microalloyed steel under non monotonie conditions has been studied using double hit hot torsion tests involving changes in the twist direction. For strain reversal conditions, a clear mechanical transient has been observed. This transient has been characterized by a steep hardening region just after reversal which takes place up to a stress level near the one reached before reversing, then a region showing a low strain hardening rate and finally, a region extending up to the convergence of monotonie and reversal behaviours. Testing temperatures and strain rates have ranged from 950°C to 1200°C and from 0.01s^-1 to 0.1s^-1, respectively. Applied prestrains before reversal have varied from 0.03 to 0.25 in order to avoid the occurrence of dynamic recrystallization during previous strain. Lastly, some relationships have been established between the deformation conditions and the parameters defining the transient. These parameters depend mainly on the prestrain.

Se ha estudiado el comportamiento mecánico de un acero microaleado con niobio bajo condiciones no monótonas de deformación mediante ensayos de torsión en caliente de doble pasada con cambio de sentido de giro entre la primera y la segunda de ellas. Se ha observado que la inversión de la deformación produce un transitorio en las curvas de fluencia caracterizado por un endurecimiento rápido hasta alcanzar un nivel de tensión menor al que se tenía, justo, antes de aplicar el cambio en el sentido de giro, una etapa de endurecimiento nulo y, finalmente, una región en la que el comportamiento mecánico durante la inversión tiende progresivamente al comportamiento mecánico monótono. Las temperaturas de ensayo se han variado entre 950 °C y 1.200 °C y las velocidades de deformación entre 0,01 y 0,1 s^-1 Las deformaciones previas aplicadas antes de la reversión han estado comprendidas entre 0,03 y 0,25, evit

ETNOCONOCIMIENTO EN LATINOAMÉRICA: APROPIACIÓN DE RECURSOS GENÉTICOS Y BIOÉTICA ETNOCONHECIMENTO NA AMÉRICA LATINA: APROPRIAÇÃO DE RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOÉTICA ETHNOKNOWLEDGE IN LATIN AMERICA: APPROPRIATION OF GENETIC RESOURCES AND BIOETHICS

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Sandra Herrera Vásquez

2004-01-01

Full Text Available En este documento se argumenta la importancia que tiene considerar los conocimientos tradicionales indígenas o etnoconocimiento. Las industrias farmacéuticas y las empresas biotecnológicas tienen gran interés en ello por la posibilidad real de encontrar, dentro de la diversidad biológica, nuevos productos activos en el campo de la salud y nuevos genes con propiedades para mejoría de la alimentación. Se usa esta información sin reconocer su origen ni compensar a la población indígena por su obtención. Nos encontramos en un momento en el cual, por un lado, las leyes no contribuyen a su protección y, por otro, cada vez se alejan más las posibilidades de llegar a conocer las formas cómo han sido históricamente utilizadas las plantas medicinales por los chamanes o las machis de los pueblos latinoamericanosNesse documento argumenta-se a importância que tem dar consideração ao conhecimento autótono tradicional ou a etnoconocimiento. As indústrias farmacêuticas e as empresas biotecnológicas têm um grande juro nesse tipo de conhecimento pela possibilidade real de encontrar, dentro da diversidade biológica, novos produtos ativos no campo da saúde e novas gens com propriedades para o melhoramento da alimentação. Esse conhecimento usa-se sem reconhecer sua origem nem compensar a população por sua obtencao. Nós somos dentro de um momento no qual por um lado as leis não contribuem à proteção desse conhecimento e no outro, cada vez que há manteu longe as possibilidades de ter êxito ao conhecer as formas como as plantas medicinais têm sido historicamente utilizado pelos chamanes ou o machis dos povos latino-americanosIn this document we argue the importance of taking into consideration the indigenous traditional knowledge or “ethnoknowledge”. The pharmaceutical industries and the biotechnological companies have a great interest in this type of knowledge due to the real possibility of finding, within biodiversity, new

Environment, arbovirus transmission and control of epidemics Ambiente, transmissão de arbovírus e controle de epidemias

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Roger Cordellier

1992-09-01

Full Text Available In order to illustrate the relationships between the biotopes (or phytogeographical zones, arbovirus vectors and vertebrate hosts (including man, and epidemiology, current knowledge on the transmission of Yellow Fever virus in West Africa is reported. A dynamic scheme has been devised to integrate the observed geographical distribution of cases and the timing of their occurrence. Two principal areas, endemicity and epidetnicity, were defined according to the presence or absence of sylvatic monkey-mosquito transmission. The intensity and potential of contacts between humans and vectors depends on the degree of man-made changes in the environment, often increasing the extension of ecotone areas where the mosquitoes are easily biting at the ground level. Prevention and/or control of arbovirus diseases require detailed eco-epidemiological studies to determine: (1 the effective role of each potential vector in each phytogeographical region; (2 the risk factors for the people living in or near areas with a sylvatic transmission cycle; (3 the priorities - vaccination and/or control - for preventing the expansion of natural foci.Para ilustrar as relações existentes entre os biótopos (ou zonas fitogeográficas, os vetores e hospedeiros vertebrados (incluindo o homem de arbovírus e a epidemiologia, o conhecimento atual sobre a transmissão do vírus de febre amarela na África Ocidental é apresentado e discutido. Um modelo dinâmico foi desenvolvido para integrar a distribuição geográfica dos casos observados e o momento de sua ocorrência. Duas áreas principais, endemicidade e epidemicidade, foram definidas de acordo com a presença ou ausência de transmissão silvática macaco-mosquito. A intensidade e o potencial dos contatos entre homem e vetores depende do grau das alterações ambientais produzidas pelas atividades humanas, geralmente aumentando a extensão das áreas de ecótono onde os mosquitos estão ativos ao nível do solo. A preven

Analysis of heavy-rain-producing elevated thunderstorms in the MO-KS-OK region of the United States

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al. 2003). 1.2 Objectives The two most common severe weather threats associated with elevated thunderstorms are heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding and hail (Grant 1995; Markowski and Richardson 2010). This study mainly focuses on elevated thunderstorms that produce heavy rainfall in the region encompassing the following National Weather Service county warning areas: Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, Springfield, Tulsa, Wichita, and Topeka. The goals of this study are to: 1) Solidify our understanding of synoptic and mesoscale environmental conditions that lead to the development of heavy-rain-producing elevated thunderstorms 2) Differentiate storms that produce heavy rainfall from those that produce little-tono rainfall.

Avaliações clínico-patológicas e laboratoriais da intoxicação experimental por monofluoroacetato de sódio em ovinos

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Tiago C. Peixoto

2010-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar se a administração de doses únicas e de frações diárias da dose letal de monofluoroacetato de sódio (MF a ovinos induzem a clássica degeneração hidrópico-vacuolar (DHV dos túbulos uriníferos contornados distais observada no rim de bovinos intoxicados por plantas brasileiras que causam "morte súbita" (PBCMS. MF foi administrado, por via oral, em doses únicas de 0,5 e 1,0mg/kg, cada dose para dois ovinos, e em doses subletais repetidas diariamente de 0,1mg/kg/dia, por quatro dias, e 0,2mg/kg/dia por seis dias, cada dose para um ovino. Todos os ovinos que receberam MF morreram, exceto um que recebeu 0,5mg/kg e não mostrou sintomas. A evolução da intoxicação variou de 3min a 33h5min. Clinicamente os animais apresentaram taquicardia, respiração abdominal, tremores musculares, ligeira perda de equilíbrio, por vezes cambaleavam, deitavam e apoiavam a cabeça no flanco. Na fase final, os ovinos caíam em decúbito lateral, esticavam os membros, faziam movimentos de pedalagem, apresentavam opistótono e morriam. O exame ecocardiográfico evidenciou dilatação cardíaca e redução da fração de encurtamento sistólico. A análise dos níveis séricos de uréia e creatinina revelou moderada a acentuada azotemia. MF provocou "morte súbita" em todos os ovinos que mostraram sintomas. À necropsia verificaram-se aurículas e veias jugulares, cavas, ázigos e pulmonares moderadamente ingurgitadas e, em alguns animais, edema pulmonar. O exame histopatológico revelou, em todos os ovinos, leve a acentuada DHV das células epiteliais dos túbulos contornados distais, associada à picnose nuclear. Adicionalmente, verificaram-se discreta vacuolização e, por vezes, necrose de coagulação de hepatócitos. Não encontramos referências a esse tipo peculiar de lesão, exceto das descrições sobre lesões renais associadas à ingestão de PBCMS e de recentes estudos em bovinos intoxicados com MF. Este

Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Hantavirus Rodent-Borne Infection by Oligoryzomys fulvescens in the Agua Buena Region--Panama.

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Armién, Blas; Ortiz, Paulo Lazaro; Gonzalez, Publio; Cumbrera, Alberto; Rivero, Alina; Avila, Mario; Armién, Aníbal G; Koster, Frederick; Glass, Gregory

2016-02-01

Hotspot detection and characterization has played an increasing role in understanding the maintenance and transmission of zoonotic pathogens. Identifying the specific environmental factors (or their correlates) that influence reservoir host abundance help increase understanding of how pathogens are maintained in natural systems and are crucial to identifying disease risk. However, most recent studies are performed at macro-scale and describe broad temporal patterns of population abundances. Few have been conducted at a microscale over short time periods that better capture the dynamical patterns of key populations. These finer resolution studies may better define the likelihood of local pathogen persistence. This study characterizes the landscape distribution and spatio-temporal dynamics of Oligoryzomys fulvescens (O. fulvescens), an important mammalian reservoir in Central America. Information collected in a longitudinal study of rodent populations in the community of Agua Buena in Tonosí, Panama, between April 2006 and December 2009 was analyzed using non-spatial analyses (box plots) and explicit spatial statistical tests (correlograms, SADIE and LISA). A 90 node grid was built (raster format) to design a base map. The area between the nodes was 0.09 km(2) and the total study area was 6.43 km(2) (2.39 x 2.69 km). The temporal assessment dataset was divided into four periods for each year studied: the dry season, rainy season, and two months-long transitions between seasons (the months of April and December). There were heterogeneous patterns in the population densities and degrees of dispersion of O. fulvescens that varied across seasons and among years. The species typically was locally absent during the late transitional months of the season, and re-established locally in subsequent years. These populations re-occurred in the same area during the first three years but subsequently re-established further south in the final year of the study. Spatial

Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Hantavirus Rodent-Borne Infection by Oligoryzomys fulvescens in the Agua Buena Region - Panama

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Gonzalez, Publio; Cumbrera, Alberto; Rivero, Alina; Avila, Mario; Armién, Aníbal G.; Koster, Frederick; Glass, Gregory

2016-01-01

Background Hotspot detection and characterization has played an increasing role in understanding the maintenance and transmission of zoonotic pathogens. Identifying the specific environmental factors (or their correlates) that influence reservoir host abundance help increase understanding of how pathogens are maintained in natural systems and are crucial to identifying disease risk. However, most recent studies are performed at macro-scale and describe broad temporal patterns of population abundances. Few have been conducted at a microscale over short time periods that better capture the dynamical patterns of key populations. These finer resolution studies may better define the likelihood of local pathogen persistence. This study characterizes the landscape distribution and spatio-temporal dynamics of Oligoryzomys fulvescens (O. fulvescens), an important mammalian reservoir in Central America. Methods Information collected in a longitudinal study of rodent populations in the community of Agua Buena in Tonosí, Panama, between April 2006 and December 2009 was analyzed using non-spatial analyses (box plots) and explicit spatial statistical tests (correlograms, SADIE and LISA). A 90 node grid was built (raster format) to design a base map. The area between the nodes was 0.09 km2 and the total study area was 6.43 km2 (2.39 x 2.69 km). The temporal assessment dataset was divided into four periods for each year studied: the dry season, rainy season, and two months-long transitions between seasons (the months of April and December). Results There were heterogeneous patterns in the population densities and degrees of dispersion of O. fulvescens that varied across seasons and among years. The species typically was locally absent during the late transitional months of the season, and re-established locally in subsequent years. These populations re-occurred in the same area during the first three years but subsequently re-established further south in the final year of the

Y Emma Bovary aprendió a hablar en gallego...

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Cecilia Fernández Santomé

2012-05-01

Full Text Available Les traductions des œuvres de Flaubert sont nombreuses. Cet abondant flux de versions comporte une multiplicité de solutions aux « problèmes » que les textes flaubertiens peuvent poser au médiateur linguistique. Ainsi, l’adaptation de leur esthétique particulière et du ton général de l’écriture ne repose pas toujours sur les mêmes stratégies formelles, qui varient suivant les traits du système littéraire récepteur de l’œuvre traduite. Pourtant, la traduction en galicien de Madame Bovary est imprégnée non seulement des caractéristiques propres à cette langue, mais encore des dispositions inhérentes à un champ littéraire encore peu consolidé.Flaubert’s works have been translated into an important number of languages all around the world. These versions present different solutions to the “problems” of Flaubert’s style. In fact, translated books content many aesthetic and formal modifications that are intimately related to the strategies actives into the literary system that receives the resultant text. However, there is a kind of double gaze in the translator’s work that hides the simultaneous development of other aspects that are not literary features. The Galician translation of Madame Bovary shows how stylistic choices are determined by extra-literary politics into a cultural system that is already not completely consolidated.Son muchas las traducciones existentes de las obras de Flaubert. Esta multitud de versiones conlleva la existencia de múltiples soluciones a los “problemas” que los textos de origen presentan al traductor. De hecho, la adaptación de la particular estética de los mismos y del tono general de su escritura no sigue un patrón único, al variar en función de las características inherentes al sistema literario receptor de la obra traducida. Es más, el respeto al principio de literalidad o las libertades del traductor, disimulan aspectos más allá de lo estrictamente literario

Efectos del masaje en el recién nacido y el lactante Massage effects at the newborn and suckling baby

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Francisca Márquez Doren

2007-09-01

Full Text Available Antecedentes: masaje infantil, técnica relativamente nueva en occidente, importada desde India por el Dr. Leboyer, quien observó sus beneficios para los niños. Diseño: revisión bibliográfica de 10 estudios, cuyos límites de búsqueda fueron "infant massage", "infant tactile stimulation", ensayos clínicos randomizados, con menos de 7 años de antigüedad, de bases de datos Pubmed, Cinhal, Medline y Cochrane. Propósito: determinar el efecto del masaje en el recién nacido y lactante, considerando niños de pretérmino y término, con o sin patologías, que recibieron masaje. Resultados: mejor ganancia de peso, mejor desarrollo neurosensorial, periodos de alerta prolongados, aumento del tono vagal y motilidad gástrica, efectos analgésicos. También, mejor organización del sueño, disminución de hormonas del stress y recepción precoz de alimentos por vía oral, menos días de hospitalización y se observó una interacción madre hijo positiva. El masaje no mostró resultados significativos en disminuir cólicos en niños normales ni disminución del llanto en niños con lesiones cerebrales. Conclusiones: el masaje infantil demostró tener múltiples beneficios para el niño, su madre y su interacción, pero existen situaciones especiales en las que no fue efectivo.Background: infant massage is a relatively new technic in the western society, concerned from India by Dr. Leboyer, who observed his benefits for the children. Design: bibliographical review of 10 studies, whose limits search were infant massage, infant tactile stimulation, with just of 6 years of antiquity, randomized control trail, of data bases Pubmed, Cinhal, Medline and Cochrane. Intention: to determine the effect of the massage in new born and child, considering of preterm and term babys, with or without pathologies, that received massage. Main results: better gain of weight, better neurosensorial development, prolonged periods of alert, increase in vagal tone and

A comparative study of central corneal thickness (CCT and intraocular pressure (IOP in University of KwaZulu-Natal students of Black and Indian ethnicity*

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Z. Sardiwalla

2012-12-01

Full Text Available Thisstudy compared central corneal thickness (CCT and intraocular pressure (IOP of Black and Indian students from the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal. Two hundred (100 Black and 100 Indi- an participants of both genders aged 18-25 years (mean and standard deviation; 20.1±1.6 years participated in this study. CCT and IOP were measured for the right eye of each participant using a Tono-Pachymeter (NT530P and a Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT respectively. Data was analyzed with descriptive, t-test and Pearson’s cor-relation statistics. In the total sample (N = 200, the mean CCT value was 519.5 ± 38.6 μm and CCT was higher in the Indians (526.5 ± 37.2 µm than in the Blacks (512.4 ± 38.9 µm (p = 0.01.  Also, it was higher in the females (522.3 µm than in males (516.7 µm, but the difference was insignificant (p = 0.07. The mean CCT was higher in the Indian males (520.1 µm than in the Black males (513.2 µm, but the difference was insignificant (p=0.39.  However, it was significantly higher in the Indian females (533 µm than in the Black females (511.6 µm (p = 0.003. In the total sample, the mean IOP was 14.6 mmHg and IOP was greater in Indiansthan Blacks (mean = 15.3 ± 2.9 mmHg and 13.8 ± 2.6 mmHg respectively (p = 0.01. Also, the mean IOP (N = 200 value was slightly higher in the females (14.7 mmHg than in males (14.5 mmHg (p = 0.51. The mean IOP was higher in the Indian males (15.0 mmHg than in the Black males (14.0 mmHg (p = 0.07 and the mean IOP value was higher in the Indian females (15.7 mmHg than in the Black females (13.6 mmHg (p < 0.001. The higher mean IOP value in the Indian than Black participants was attributed to the higher mean CCT values. A positive, but inconsistent association between CCT and IOP was found in this study, the coefficient in the total sample (r = 0.382, p = 0.000, in the Blacks (r = 0.196, p = 0.05 and in Indians (r = 0.498, p = 0.000. A national population study comparing CCT and IOP in the various

Report on FY 1998 project for international energy utilization rationalization, etc. (Project of the analytical tool survey for making energy consumption effective in Asia); 1998 nendo chosa hokokusho. Kokusai energy shiyo gorika nado taisaku jigyo (Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo)

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1999-03-01

In the Asian region, for the purpose of grasping effects of both economic growth and effective energy consumption, an analytical tool added with a computational function was developed with the interindustrial relations table as database for the analysis of the present situation and the simulational analysis. In the analysis of the present situation, changes between the two time-points, 1985 and 1990, were analyzed using the developed energy consumption table and the CO2 emission table. The energy consumption amount is increasing with the growing economy. However, the energy unit consumption is decreasing in countries except Korea, the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia. The trend is that the energy consumption is becoming effective and the CO2 emission amount is decreasing. As an example of simulating the introduction effect of energy saving technology, the simulation was conducted on the three: iron steel, paper/pulp, and cement in Indonesia. As a result, the decrease in energy consumption was shown in paper/pulp by 48%, in cement by 16%, and in iron/steel by 16%. The same was also indicated in CO2 emission. (NEDO)

FY 1995 basic research to develop instruments for diagnosis of atherosclerosis on the basis of autofluorescence analysis of blood and vascular walls; 1995 nendo ketsueki oyobi kekkanheki no jiko keiko bunseki ni yoru domyaku koka shindan kiki kaiahtsu no tame no kisoteki kenkyu

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1997-03-01

To obtain the basic data to develop instruments for diagnosis of atherosclerosis and to elucidate the mechanisms of atherogenesis by focusing on the autofluorescence of blood and vascular walls of atherosclerotic animal models and human patients. We have performed experiments to examine the relationships between autofluorescence of blood and vascular walls of guinea pig atherosclerotic model and human patients and obtained the following results. 1. The autofluorescence from human atherosclerotic aorta included the components with longer wave length than normal aorta, suggesting that diagnosis of atherosclerotic aortic walls will be possible using spectroscopic analysis through glass fiber catheter into vascular system. Further studies should be needed to the quantitative diagnosis. 2. The autofluorescence from blood plasma of human atherosclerotic patients has showed that the peak wave length was shorter than that of normal plasma. This phenomenon was mainly caused by the oxidization of plasma, especially lipoproteins, LDL and HDL. 3. Atherosclerotic model of the guinea pigs was quite similar to human atherosclerosis at the points of cholesterol levels and localization of lipid deposit to arterial walls, and showed to be useful for the studies of atherosclerosis. (NEDO)

FY 2000 report on the survey of new energy policies by developing countries. Survey of collection/analysis of information on effective energy utilization, etc.; 2000 nendo tojokoku no shin energy seisaku ni kakawaru chosa hokokusho. Energy yuko riyo nado joho shushu bunseki chosa

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2001-03-01

For the purpose of effectively introducing technologies for new energy/energy conservation in developing countries, the paper arranged the policies, systems and organizations in relation to new energy in developing countries. Survey was made of the following two fields: 1) new energy in developing countries; 2) situation of new energy introduction in developing countries (India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and China). In 2), about India, for example, survey was made on the following: outline of the new energy policy, regulation for new energy promotion and law specifying concrete measures, departments in charge/promotion organizations for new energy, system and setup for new energy promotion, numerical target of new energy introduction, support from developed countries including the E.U. and the U.S. and the effects, support from international organizations including the World Bank and UNDP and the effects, the country's main industries related to new energy, the government's policy for the domestic production, outline of the use of India's biomass project, etc. (NEDO)

Fiscal 2000 strategic surveys for respective technical fields. Hydrogen-based energy working group (Analysis of project results relating to hydrogen technology); 2000 nendo bun'yabetsu senryaku chosa hokokusho. Suisokei energy WG (Suiso kanren gijutsu ni kakawaru jigyo seika tou bunseki chosa)

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2001-03-01

Attention is focused on the molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) technology which has enjoyed the largest number of industrial property applications out of hydrogen-related technologies under development by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization). The patent application is utilized as a tool for analysis, and endeavors are made to systematize and then analyze the correlations between the tasks to discharge and the results of studies in the process of MCFC development. Findings are described below. It is quite difficult to specify the technology involved by the study of patent abstracts. Since an applicant for patent is inclined to describe the application so that it will cover an extensive scope (or, so that the patent will be taken in a broad sense), it takes much time for researchers other than the applicant to specify the field of technological studies where the application originates. Such being the case, it cannot be easily determined whether or not a patent applied for by a private-sector corporation has its origin in a NEDO-implemented project. In addition, it is found that there is not necessarily a correlationship between the importance of a research and development goal and the number of patents generated. (NEDO)

Report on achievements in fiscal 1996. International energy usage rationalization project (project to survey energy consumption efficiency improvement analyzing tools for Asia/data edition); 1996 nendo kokusai energy shiyo gorika taisaku jigyo chosa hokokusho shiryohen. Asia energy shohi koritsuka bunseki tool chosa jigyo

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1997-10-01

This paper is a collection of data on surveys for energy consumption efficiency improvement, taking Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines as the object countries. I. Industry related various value tables consist of the following: basic transaction table, throw-in coefficient table, final demand converter table, import coefficient table, added value coefficient table, inverse matrix coefficient table, sensitivity coefficient table, influence coefficient table, production inducing amount, production induction dependence, import inducing amount, import induction coefficient, import induction dependence, and inverse matrix coefficient table. II. Energy related various coefficient tables consist of the following: inherent unit quantity table, energy consumption table, CO2 table (1), CO2 table (2), unit requirement table, energy consumption induction table, energy consumption induction coefficient table, energy consumption induction dependence table, CO2 induction table (1), CO2 induction coefficient table (1), CO2 induction dependence table (1), CO2 induction table (2), CO2 induction coefficient table (2), and CO2 induction dependence table (2). Industries are classified into 34 kinds. III. The energy consumption table, CO2 table (1) and CO2 table (2) are shown as the simulation results for the four countries: Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippines. (NEDO)

Report on geothermal development promotion survey in fiscal 1999. Survey on hot water (collection and analysis of hot water) in Tsujinodake Area No. B-6; 1999 nendo chinetsu kaihatsu sokushin chosa hokokusho. Nessui no chosa (nessui no saishu oyobi bunseki) No.B-6 Tsujinodake chiiki

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2000-10-01

This paper reports the survey on hot water in the geothermal development promotion survey in fiscal 1999 in the Tsujinodake area. The hot water pumped up at the N11-TD-2 well is considered to have been originated from sea water mixed with the same amount of meteoric water including waters from Ikeda Lake and Unagi Pond, and been heated mainly by heat conduction. The hot water temperature near the well is 120 to 130 degrees C, but the upper stream of hot water flow is estimated to be 160 to 230 degrees C. The test samples collected and analyzed are those pumped up from depths greater than 1,500 m, having the same origin as the high temperature hot water of higher than 200 degrees C flowing sideways at the relatively shallow portions (depths of 400 to 800 m). The hot water is estimated to be rising from deep portions of mainly the north-east shore of Unagi Pond in which exhalation bands are located, and its temperature is considered to be 260 to 270 degrees C at deep sections. The high temperature geothermal reservoir spreading in relatively shallow sections of the N11-TD-2 well mainly around the vicinity of the north-east shore of Unagi Pond has a high possibility of being continued even to the vicinity of the west Ibusuki area in the north-east direction. However, the spread of the geothermal reservoir with high temperatures (200 degrees C or higher) is considered not too large in the direction of the Matsugakubo in the north-west and the Narikawa area direction in the south-east. (NEDO)

Change of photovoltaic module conversion efficiency with the environmental factors in different site. Comparison of the conversion efficiency in Tokyo with the one in Nagano; Kotonaru chiten ni okeru taiyo denchi module no shutsuryoku tokusei no henka. Tokyoto Shinjukuku to Naganoken Chinoshi tono hikaku

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Higuchi, T.; Tani, T.; Hirata, Y.; Inasaka, T. [Science University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)

1997-11-25

Assuming that photovoltaic power systems were installed at two points, Shinjuku Tokyo and Chino Nagano, a study was conducted of difference in generated output of the systems caused by the difference in environmental factors. In the study, it was assumed that two of the photovoltaic power system with rated capacity of 3kW were installed at the two points, and the annual generated output was calculated and compared by the conventional method considering only cell temperature and the output estimation method considering intensity of solar radiation, cell temperature, and spectral distribution of solar radiation. The result of the study was as follows: the difference in output ratio at the two points was 1.7% or lower under the influence of intensity of solar radiation and cell temperature. On the other hand, under the influence of the distribution of spectral solar radiation, the difference is larger than under other environmental factors, 2.4% in polycrystalline Si and 5.5% in amorphous Si. The generated output estimated by the conventional method and the spectral method produced a difference between 81 kWh in Tokyo and 258 kWh in Nagano in amorphous Si. This is because environmental factors such as intensity of solar radiation and distribution of spectral solar radiation are different between the two points. 1 ref., 2 figs., 3 tabs.

Mourning and Affirmation: Recuperating Religious Pluralism through “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero”

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Christine Muller

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Televisado un año después de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre, el documental  del Servicio Público de Transmisión Frontline, “Certezas e incertidumbres en la Zona Cero”, se centró especialmente en como ese día ha afectado las actitudes de cada religión. Formalizado como una narración dramática, enmarca su contenido en luchas individuales con la fe, ofreciendo realmente una dramática crítica retórica. La serie, dentro de escenas con un ostensible foco neutral, pero con un posicionamiento contextualizado, publica los affaires del suceso. El acto del documental pende sobre las agencias y sus premisas, tonos y ediciones para facilitar la participación de los agentes –los televidentes- en la mediación de los entrevistados, una invitación basada en una inclusión a todo el mundo. En esta línea, los televidentes, reorganizados como testigos del 11 de Septiembre, juegan más directamente afectados por el día en confrontación con lo que pudieron haber perdido y considerando que pueden recuperar en términos de responsabilidad hacía los Estados Unidos. Por último, esta película propone un pluralismo religioso como fuerza curativa y una afirmación de la identidad americana en respuesta al absolutismo religioso creado por las investigaciones de los ataques del 11 de septiembre y que promueven crisis desesperantes en la confianza.Palabras clave: 11/S, Crisis de confianza, pluralismo religioso, identidad americana___________________________ABSTRACT:Televised one year after the September 11 attacks, the Public Broadcasting Service’s Frontline documentary “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero” focuses specifically on how that day has affected attitudes toward religion.  With its form as a dramatic narrative framing its content of individuals’ struggles with faith, the documentary lends itself readily to a dramatistic rhetorical critique.  Set within the scene of an ostensibly neutral, but contextually positioned, public affairs

Instituto de Psicoterapia, Madrid

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Schoebel Ungria, Willi

1963-06-01

disponen de sus correspondientes habitaciones, individuales, y una serie de saloncitos y cuartos de estar fácilmente transformables en comedores. El ala para las curas de sueño está más aislada e independiente y tiene amplias terrazas de verano e invierno. La decoración interior ha sido detenidamente estudiada para conseguir que el ambiente sea., en todo momento, familiar y agradable. Los colores empleados son de tipo «tranquilo», evitándose los tonos fuertes, vivos y excitantes. Las fachadas entonan con las características serranas del paisaje. El edificio, en conjunto, destaca por su carácter preponderantemente funcional, y por el especial cuidado con que han sido resueltos todos sus detalles.

JOAQUÍN GIANNUZZI: SUBJETIVIDAD Y ENFERMEDAD SOCIAL EN LOS POEMARIOS DE LA DICTADURA

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Mariela Blanco

2010-11-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo abordaremos los poemarios de Joaquín Giannuzzi publicados durante la dictadura militar argentina, Señales de una causa personal (1977 y Principios de incertidumbre (1980, y los dos posteriores, Violín obligado (1984 y Cabeza final (1991 que -aunque publicados ya en el período democrático- mantienen el tono deceptivo y el retraimiento de la mirada que se instalan en sus predecesores, instaurando un corte con respecto a los primeros poemarios. En efecto, en Contemporáneo del mundo (1962 y Las condiciones de la época (1967, aún se advierte cierta fe en el poder de la palabra de incidir en lo social, por lo cual predomina una mirada volcada hacia el mundo externo, atravesado por las coordenadas de la historia. El viraje que se observa a partir de los poemarios de la época de “plomo” se sustenta en un repliegue de la mirada hacia el mundo interno, acompañado de un creciente protagonismo de lo físico, a tal punto, que el cuerpo deviene metáfora de la enfermedad social. A partir de estos cambios, proponemos la hipótesis de que, ante la experiencia de lo intolerable, las estrategias de solapamiento del discurso se constituyen en una forma de preservación del yo y de la poesía.The aim of this work is to study Joaquín Giannuzzi´s books of poems Señales de una causa personal (1977 and Principios de incertidumbre (1980 published during the Argentine military dictatorship. The two other follow-ups, Violín obligado (1984 and Cabeza final (1991, maintain the disillusioned tone and the withdrawn kind of look that prevailed in the first two works, thus establishing a clear difference with his previous poetry, published before the military dictatorship. As a matter of fact, a certain faith in the power of words having an effect on the social context is noticed in volumes like Contemporáneo del mundo (1962 and Las condiciones de la época (1967. A look turned on to the outside world, a world where the coordinates of History

J.L. Aranguren: reformador moral en época de crisis

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Cerezo, Pedro

1991-04-01

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En el doble tono del pensamiento de Aranguren -el del filósofo moral y el de moralista- es el segundo el que lleva el cantus firmus y constituye el estilo del pensador. En este sentido, la obra de J.L. Aranguren continúa creadoramente la gran tradición moralista del pensamiento hispánico. Remedando la expresión orteguiana, podría definirse como «experimentos morales de nueva España», poniéndola en forma moral. A la vez, pervive en ella el aliento unamuniano de una profunda reforma del ethos del catolicismo español. Pero J.L. Aranguren ha realizado su vocación de reformador moral en un ejercicio de transmutación íntima, de autodesprendimiento irónico y transcendimiento utópico del propio si mismo. En otros términos: ha llevado a cabo su tarea de reformador en la tensión entre el desbloqueo crítico de la experiencia moral y su apertura hacia un nuevo horizonte. En un primer momento, el ámbito de experimentación estuvo demarcado por el «buen talante» católico y una metafísica intelectualista zubiriana, que fraguaron en una ética normativa, abierta a las diferentes esferas de la cultura y de profunda inspiración religiosa. Posteriormente, la exploración de la crisis nihilista de Occidente produjo una profunda inflexión en su planteamiento. La crisis determinó un «repliegue ético» decisivo, es decir, una mayor vecindad al planteamiento kantiano, poniendo ahora el acento en la actitud o existencia ética en sí misma, por encima de los contenidos. En sustitución del estilo fundamentalista de la metafísica, el factum moral y el mundo de la vida son ahora los dos focos de constitución de la experiencia moral. Paralelamente, la tarea del reformador moral se centra en el sondeo de la desmoralización utópica de la existencia. La crítica se ejerce fragmentariamente, a piezas sueltas, en torno a los problemas más acuciantes de la experiencia moral: violencia, consumismo

Responsabilidade da enfermagem na administração de medicamentos: algumas reflexões para uma prática segura com qualidade de assistência Responsabilidad del enfermero en la administración de medicamentos: algunas reflexiones para una práctica segura con atención de calidad Nursing responsibility in the administration of medication: some reflections for a safe practice with quality

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Jorséli Angela Henriques Coimbra

2001-04-01

Full Text Available Uma das atribuições, merecedora de reflexão da prática de enfermagem, é a administração de medicamentos que envolve aspectos legais e éticos de impacto sobre a prática profissional. Erros na administração de medicamentos trazem à tona a responsabilidade da categoria de enfermagem. Ao realizar a ação de modo adequado possibilita a prevenção do erro e conseqüentemente o erro real. Neste trabalho objetivamos analisar as responsabilidades da enfermagem na administração de medicamentos por meio de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, realizada nas bases Medline e Lilacs (1997/1999. Os resultados ressaltam que são escassos os trabalhos publicados sobre o tema e portanto um alerta para a necessidade de refletir sobre uma maior inserção dos profissionais de enfermagem na prática da administração de medicamentos no que se refere a publicações.Una de las atribuciones dignas de reflexión en la práctica de enfermería, es la administración de medicamentos ya que involucra aspectos legales y éticos de impacto en la práctica profesional. Los errores en la administración de medicamentos traen a tono la responsabilidad del enfermero. Al realizar la acción de modo adecuado, hace posible la prevención del error y por consiguiente el error real. En este trabajo nosotros pretendimos analizar las responsabilidades del enfermero en la administración de medicamentos por medio de una investigación bibliográfica, realizada en las bases Medline y Lilas (1997/1999. Los resultados destacan que son escasos los trabajos publicados sobre el tema y por lo tanto son una alerta para la necesidad de reflexionar sobre una inserción mayor de los profesionales de enfermería en la práctica de la administración de medicaciones en lo que se refiere a las publicaciones.A nursing role that is worthy of reflection is the administration of medications, as it involves legal and ethical aspects of impact on professional practice. Errors in the administration

A comparative study of the safety and efficacy effect of 5-fluorouracil or mitomycin C mounted biological delivery membranes in a rabbit model of glaucoma filtration surgery

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Wu ZH

2013-03-01

Full Text Available Zhihong Wu,1 Shuning Li,2 Ningli Wang,2 Wanshun Liu,3 Wen Liu3 1General Hospital of Armed Police Forces, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China 3Ocean University of China, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China Purpose: To investigate the potential usage of biological delivery membranes containing mitomycin C (MMC or 5-fluorouracil (5-FU in the construction of glaucoma-filtering blebs, and to evaluate their safety and efficacy. Methods: Chitosan was selected as the biological membrane carrier to prepare sustained-released membranes. Twelve micrograms of 5-FU or MMC was covalently conjugated onto the membranes by solvent volatilization. Rabbits underwent glaucoma filtration surgery and were randomly allocated into one of the four treatment regimens: glaucoma filtration operation with no implantation of chitosan membrane group (as control, drug-free chitosan membrane implantation group (blank/placebo group, membrane containing 5-FU treatment group (5-FU group, and membrane containing MMC treatment group (MMC group. Each group consisted of 12 rabbits. Intraocular pressure (IOP was measured and evaluated over a 28-day period follow-up preoperatively, then after surgery on days 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 by Tono-Pen. The aqueous humor was analyzed in each experimental and control groups at days 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 20 after operation. Bleb survival and anterior segment were examined with a slit lamp microscope and photographed simultaneously. Two rabbits from each group were killed on day 28 and eight eye samples obtained for histopathological study. Corneas and lenses were examined by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Results: Both 5-FU and MMC significantly prolonged bleb survival compared with control groups. The filtering bleb’s survival period was significantly more prolonged in the MMC and 5-FU groups (maintained 14 days than the

Effects of topical hypotensive drugs on circadian IOP, blood pressure, and calculated diastolic ocular perfusion pressure in patients with glaucoma.

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Quaranta, Luciano; Gandolfo, Federico; Turano, Raffaele; Rovida, Federico; Pizzolante, Teodoro; Musig, Andrea; Gandolfo, Enrico

2006-07-01

To compare the short-term effects of timolol 0.5%, brimonidine 0.2%, dorzolamide 2%, and latanoprost 0.005% on intraocular pressure (IOP), blood pressure (BP), and diastolic ocular perfusion pressure (DOPP), calculated as the difference between the diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and IOP. According to a 4 x 4 Latin squares design for repeated measures, 27 untreated patients and patients with newly diagnosed primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) were treated with timolol 0.5% at 8 AM and 8 PM; brimonidine 0.2% at 8 AM and 8 PM; dorzolamide 2% at 8 AM, 2 PM, and 8 PM; and latanoprost 0.005% at 8 PM. The duration of each treatment course was 6-weeks, with a 4-week washout between each treatment. IOP and BP were measured at baseline and at the end of each treatment period. IOP was measured every 2 hours throughout a 24-hour period. Sitting IOP was measured from 8 AM to 10 PM by Goldmann applanation tonometry. Supine IOP was assessed from 12 to 6 AM by means of a handheld electronic tonometer (TonoPen XL; Mentor, Norwell, MA). BP monitoring was performed by means of an automated portable device (TM-2430; A & D Co., Saitama, Japan). All the drugs tested decreased the IOP significantly at all time points in comparison with baseline pressure. The mean 24-hour IOP after latanoprost administration (16.62+/-0.98 mm Hg) was significantly lower than that after timolol, brimonidine, or dorzolamide (P=0.0001). During the 24-hour period, brimonidine induced a significant decrease in systolic BP (SBP) and DBP at all time points when compared with baseline measurements and with those after administration of the other drugs (P<0.0001). Timolol caused a significant decrease in DBP and SBP at all the 24-hour time points when compared with the baseline and with the dorzolamide- and latanoprost-induced changes (P<0.0001). The mean 24-hour DOPPs were 50.7+/-5.9 mm Hg at baseline, 53+/-5.5 mm Hg with timolol, 46.2+/-5.4 mm Hg with brimonidine, 55.9+/-4.6 mm Hg with dorzolamide, and 56

Pérdidas auditivas relacionadas con la exposición a ruido en trabajadores de la construcción Hearing loss related with noise exposure in construction workers

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Pilar Gómez Mur

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Introducción: A pesar del ruido existente en las obras de la construcción no está extendido el uso de protectores auditivos en este sector. Objetivo: Estudiar las pérdidas auditivas inducidas por ruido (PAIR en las audiometrías de estos trabajadores. Material y métodos: Se realiza un estudio descriptivo de las audiometrías de tonos puros realizadas a 223 trabajadores del sector y se comparan con las de 262 administrativos. Para clasificar las PAIR se ha utilizado el método desarrollado por Klockhoff (K y modificado por la clínica del Lavoro de Milan. Se analiza también la presencia de escotomas en las frecuencias 3000, 4000 ó 6000 Hz. Resultados: La prevalencia de PAIR y escotomas bilaterales ha sido significativamente superior en el grupo de la construcción (K: OR =3,1. IC95%:1,801-5,435. Escotoma audiométrico bilateral: OR=3,8. IC95%:2.244- 6.606. Aunque el escotoma en 6000 Hz ha sido el más frecuente, la diferencia entre los dos grupos únicamente ha sido significativa en el de 4000 Hz. Discusión: Entre un 20,7 (K y un 24,3% (escotomas de los trabajadores de la construcción presentan PAIR bilaterales (8,4 y 8,8% en administrativos. Es necesario incidir en las medidas preventivas, fundamentalmente en el uso de protectores auditivos adecuados. Se recomienda profundizar en la etiología de los diferentes escotomas en futuros estudios.Introduction: Despite the noise produced in constructions works, the utilization of hearing protection devices is not common in this sector. Aim: To study the noise induced hearing loss (NIHL present on the audiometries of the construction workers. Methodology: A descriptive study is made on the pure tone audiometries done to 223 construction workers, comparing them with those coming from 262 administrative ones. For audiometries classification purposes, the method developed by Klockhoff (K and modified by Clinica del Lavoro in Milan, is used. Presence of a notch in 3.000, 4.000 or 6.000 Hz

La contra Revolución imaginaria. Novela y film en México (1910-1965. The Imaginary Counter Revolution. Novel and Film in Mexico (1910-1965

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Full Text Available ResumenEste estudio busca señalar la tipología discursiva propiciada por la Revolución Mexicana y sus políticas culturales, además de la apropiación de los medios de comunicación de los estímulos que la gesta propuso a otros artes. Aquí se describe algunas constantes narrativas de parte de las novelas y los films producidos durante el período revolucionario y el pos revolucionario con la finalidad de relacionarlas, desde una perspectiva estilística, al formato de sociedad que se erigía. Las conclusiones dan cuenta de que la novela y el cine, con estrategias diversas, comparten una visión crítica del mundo revolucionario. En el caso de la literatura, hay una tendencia a retratar, en tono periodístico y naturalista, lo más abyecto de la gesta. En el caso del cine, las manifestaciones más influyentes son las que tangencían a la guerra civil, narrando historias y desplegando figuras que se remontan al periodo de Porfirio Diaz, o idealizando a las consecuencias de la violencia en clave poética y escapista. El resultado de esas operaciones retóricas es la presentación de una especie de imaginación contrarrevolucionaria que, sin embargo, prosperó en el seno de las instituciones creadas a partir del advenimiento de los eventos de 1910, que determinaron una actualización política, económica y cultural en el país a la par con una modernización de los sentidos y de los sentimientos.AbstractThis study seeks to point out some discursive standards stablished by Mexican Revolution cultural policies as well as the media representation. Thus, there is a description of narrative motifs upon which novels and films evoke the war and its contents. The methodological proposal aims to combine stylistic and social signs in order to make up an overview of the main revolutionary representation figures in Mexican art and media discourses in the early 20th century. The conclusion shows that the novel and the movies share a critical point of view